The Center for Human Evolutionary Studies (CHES) at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, constitutes one of the world’s leading research, teaching and student training programs in the evolution of human behavior. Our strengths lie in our multidisciplinary approach to this study, our distinguished faculty and research associates, and our highly competitive graduate and undergraduate students, including a number of foreign students from countries in which some of our research pro jects are based. We also enjoy privileged access to some of the world’s premier fossil localities for the investigation of the fossilized remains and archaeological traces of our early human ancestors.