Leslie Aiello | Center for Academic Research and Training in Anthropogeny (CARTA)

Leslie Aiello is Professor Emerita, University College London and President Emerita of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research. Her academic interests focus on the evolution of human adaptation as well as on the broader issues of evolutionary theory, life history, energetics, and the evolution of the brain and cognition. She has degrees from the University of California Los Angeles and from the University of London. She spent the majority of her academic career at University College London (1976-2005) and returned to the US to head the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research (2005-2017). She was president of The American Association of Biological Anthropologists (AABA) from 2018-2019 and currently serves on the Board of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. Throughout her career she has been active with the media in the public dissemination of science and has served as consultant and advisor to a variety of international anthropological institutions and initiatives.

URLs:

https://bioanth.org/people/leslie-aiello/

Primary Areas of Expertise:

Anatomy, Biological Anthropology, Nutrition, Paleoanthropology

Symposium Speaker

Listed here are the 5 symposium sessions for which this person is a speaker.

Date	Session	Symposium
2022-03-05	How Humans Evolved the Capacity to Change the Entire Planet	Human Origins and Humanity's Future: Past, Present and Future of the Anthropocene
2016-02-05	Evolution of Human Life History Patterns	Origins of Genus Homo
2012-12-07	Background and Overview	The Evolution of Human Nutrition
2012-12-07	Question and Answer Session and Closing Remarks	The Evolution of Human Nutrition
2011-12-16	Bipedalism and the Evolution of the Genus Homo	The Upright Ape: Bipedalism and Human Origins