Aram Yardumian Author

Aram Yardumian is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Bryn Athlyn College. An anthropologist who works at the intersection of genetics and archaeology, he has conducted fieldwork in Georgia, Armenia, Oman, and the Caribbean. He has also investigated the dispersal and prehistory of anatomically modern humans through phylogeographic studies of Y-chromosome and mitochondrial haplogroups, and the analysis of genomic DNA. Theodore G. Schurr is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Pennsylvania. For over 30 years, he has conducted anthropological genetics research that combines ethnographic fieldwork with laboratory analyses. He has investigated the prehistory of Siberia and the Americas, as well as that of Australia, Melanesia, Turkey, Georgia, Pakistan, and Kazkhstan. He has also explored the role of the mitochondrial DNA in complex diseases, metabolism, and adaptation.