Welcome

To the web site of the Center for the Advanced Study of Human Paleobiology (CASHP) and the Hominid Paleobiology Doctoral Program (HPDP) at the George Washington University.

CASHP is a research facility that is the home of the HPDP, and includes faculty from the Anthropology and the Biological Sciences Departments and from the School of Medicine and Health Sciences. It is also closely linked with the Human Origins Program of the Smithsonian Institution (SI), with the College of Medicine at Howard University, the Department of Biology at the University of Maryland, and with the Carnegie Institution of Washington.

The goals of CASHP are:

• To undertake strategic research which addresses fundamental problems and questions about human evolution that cross disciplinary boundaries
• To act as a catalyst for the thematic research programs involving researchers from other centers around the world
• To promote interdisciplinary research through training and education.