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Richard Gutierrez Bribiescas is Deputy Provost for Faculty Development and Diversity at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. He is also a professor in the Department of Anthropology with a secondary appointment in Ecology and Evolutionary Biology. Born in Los Angeles, California in 1964, he received his bachelor of arts degree in psychology and anthropology (double major) from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1988. He subsequently earned an A.M. (1994) and Ph.D. (1997) in anthropology from Harvard University with Professor Peter T. Ellison serving as his primary doctoral advisor. Following a postdoctoral fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital in the Reproductive Endocrine Unit, he joined the Yale University faculty as an assistant professor in 1998. He was promoted to associate professor on term in 2004, associate professor with tenure in 2007, and full professor in 2009. He was appointed as chair of the Department of Anthropology in 2010, serving in that capacity until his appointment as deputy provost in January of 2015.

Professor Bribiescas is the author of numerous peer reviewed publications and two books, "Men: Evolutionary and Life History" (2006, Harvard University Press) and "How Men Age: What Evolution Reveals about Male Health and Mortality" (2016, Princeton University Press). His primary research engages human evolutionary biology, particularly how evolutionary biology can inform our understanding of human evolution as well as contemporary health challenges. He is particularly engaged in research questions pertaining to reproduction, aging, and metabolism.