Dr. Hlusko is a European Research Council Advanced Grant Investigator at the Spanish National Center for Research on Human Evolution (Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana, CENIEH), and a former professor of Integrative Biology at the University of California Berkeley. Her research combines a quantitative genetic analysis of craniodental variation in primates with paleontology. She uses the genetic analyses to redefine how we assess anatomical variation so that the measurement methods reflect the underlying genetic influences. Using the skeletal variation preserved in the fossil record, she then investigates how those genetic influences evolved over time. In addition to her genetic research conducted with the Southwest National Primate Research Center in San Antonio, Texas, she has co-directed paleontological field research in Kenya and Tanzania, and collaborated on field projects in Ethiopia, participating in some of the most famous discoveries of early human ancestors. For this talk, she will focus on her discovery of a bout of human environmental adaptation to the Arctic during the last ice age.