Lia Betti

I am a Lecturer in Quantitative Anthropology at University College London, where I teach quantitative methods and advanced quantitative methods to tackle key questions about human evolution, human diversity, and human and primate ecology. My background is in Natural Sciences (BSc), Palaeontology (MSc) and Evolutionary Anthropology (MPhil and PhD). I have worked as a bioarchaeologist, and for year I was the curator of a Medieval osteological collection at the University of Roehampton. My research explores the origin of human adaptations and modern human skeletal and genetic diversity. One of my research themes is the evolution of human pelvic shape and related childbirth difficulties, and how women’s pelvic variation affects childbirth today. I have also looked at how humans adapted to different climates, and how climate itself shaped human dispersal around the world.