Michael Hammer

Michael Hammer is an associate professor and research scientist (Arizona Research Laboratories) at the University of Arizona with joint appointments in anthropology, ecology, and evolutionary biology. Dr. Hammer is a population geneticist who studies patterns of genetic variation in modern-day populations to gain insights into the evolutionary origins of Homo sapiens. His laboratory is currently constructing a novel re-sequencing database of loci throughout the genome to understand better the evolutionary processes that shape human variation and to test models of human origins.