Corey Krabbenhoft from the Department of Biological Sciences works alongside students in a research lab, guiding studies that explore ecology, genetics and environmental change through hands-on investigation and discovery. Photographer: Douglas Levere
"The chin evolved largely by accident and not through direct selection, but as an evolutionary byproduct resulting from direct selection on other parts of the skull."
Noreen von Cramon-Taubadel, professor in the Department of Anthropology, on the development of the human chin, which does not have an evolutionary advantage. She was quoted about her research in Smithsonian magazine.

