Behavior Faculty

We investigate causal, developmental, functional, and evolutionary aspects of animal behavior. This includes analyzing genetic, neural and psychological mechanisms underlying behavior, with a focus on the neurobiology of learning and memory, the behavioral ecology of species interactions, and the role of mating behavior and in species divergence.

David A. Haig
George Putnam Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Associate of Dudley House
Not Accepting Graduate Students for the 2027-2028 Academic Year
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Hopi E. Hoekstra
Edgerley Family Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
C.Y. Chan Professor of Arts and Sciences
Xiaomeng Tong and Yu Chen Professor of Life Sciences
Senior Fellow of the Society of Fellows, ex officio
Not Accepting Graduate Students
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Stephanie E. Pierce
Professor of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology
Curator of Vertebrate Paleontology and Interim Curator of Mammalogy in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Alexander Agassiz Professor of Zoology in the Museum of Comparative Zoology
Director of Graduate Studies
Not Accepting Graduate Students for the 2027-2028 Academic Year
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