Chris Kuzawa

Christopher Kuzawa is Professor of Anthropology and a Faculty Fellow at the Institute for Policy Research at Northwestern University. As a biological anthropologist with interests in developmental biology, evolutionary biology, and medicine, Kuzawa’s primary research focuses on how early developmental factors, such as nutrition, shape biology and health across the lifecycle.  He also has long-standing interests in human brain evolution, including its unusually high energetic costs and the implications of these costs for understanding the evolution of the human life cycle, the pattern of body fat deposition and risk for chronic disease.  His research has been funded by the National Institutes of Health, the National Science Foundation, and the Wenner-Gren Foundation.