Welcome

To 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 fundamental interdisciplinary field and laboratory research that generates and tests hypotheses about the nature and context of the evolutionary history of modern humans and their close relatives
• To train postgraduate fellows in interdisciplinary research related to hominid paleobiology
• To undertake interdisciplinary graduate education and training in hominid paleobiology
• To introduce undergraduate students to, and involve them in, hominid paleobiology related research
• To act as a focus for hominid paleobiology-related research in the Greater DC area