Greg Laden

Gregory Thomas Laden is an American biological anthropologist and science blogger.

Greg Laden
Born	Gregory Thomas Laden 1958 (age 66–67)
Education	University of the State of New York Regents College, Harvard University
Children	2 (one son, one daughter)[1]
Scientific career
Fields	Biological anthropology
Institutions	University of Minnesota
Thesis	Ethnoarchaeology and land use ecology of the Efe (Pygmies) of the Ituri Rain Forest, Zaire: a behavioral ecological study of land use patterns and foraging behavior  (1992)
Doctoral advisor	Irven DeVore

Education

Born in 1958, Laden received his B.A. from the University of the State of New York's Regents College program in 1984, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1987 and 1992, respectively, where he was advised by Irven DeVore.^[2][3]

Career

Laden has taught at multiple institutions, including, but not limited to, Harvard, the University of Minnesota, and Century College.^[4] In 1999, when he was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota, he co-authored a study in Current Anthropology that found that the practice of humans cooking food evolved because it allowed them to cook vegetables.^[2][5] He published a blog, "Greg Laden's Blog", on ScienceBlogs,^[1] where he focused on public controversies regarding multiple scientific topics, including global warming^[6] and evolution.^[7]