Lauren Sarringhaus

I am a biologist and biological anthropologist. My research examines ape positional behavioral variability within the context of locomotor execution in the wild to understand the origins of ape and human anatomical form. I explore the relationship between bones and behavior through multiple avenues of investigation, including: 1) documenting developmental shifts in positional behavior in wild ape populations, 2) examining postcranial variation in bone strength within and between extant hominoid taxa and 3) chronicling ecological features associated with habitat complexity, that may have influenced locomotor and morphological evolution in apes.