Dr. Erin Hecht directs the Canine Brains Project at Harvard University. She received a B.S. in Cognitive Science from the University of California San Diego in 2006 and a Ph.D. in Neuroscience from Emory University in 2013. Dr. Hecht joined the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in 2019, where she is now an Associate Professor.
Dr. Hecht is the recipient of a Sloan Research Fellowship in Neuroscience and an NSF CAREER Award. Her research focuses on neuroanatomical specializations in dogs, primates, and humans.
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Untangling The History Of Dog Domestication
A new study suggests dogs began to diversify about 11,000 years earlier than we thought. Plus, a long-running experiment to domesticate foxes.