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As humanity adapts to crises of climate change, habitat loss, and emerging infectious diseases, nowhere have changes been more acute nor responses more dynamic than in equatorial Africa. From the flanks of Mount Kenya to the famous Turkana Basin, you will combine classical field research with new molecular and computational tools to study ecology, climate, community health, and evolutionary change.
You will learn field, lab, and computer science-based methods through lectures, daily field trips, and collaborative research projects.
You will visit famous sites of natural beauty or archaeological significance, while learning Swahili and engaging with local researchers and communities. The East African Rift System is a region of particular interest not only because of contemporary climate change, but also because the human lineage — including Homo sapiens — evolved in Africa.
