Dr. Richard Lazenby
Course Director, Doctor, Patient & Society 

Richard holds BA and MA degrees from Simon Fraser University, and a PhD in Biological Anthropology from McMaster University. His NSERC-funded research areas include primate functional skeletal biology, forensic anthropology, and human ecology and adaptability. He has authored a number of articles in journals, including the American Journal of Physical Anthropology, the American Journal of Human Biology, the Journal of Theoretical Biology, The Anatomical Record, the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology, Current Anthropology, Investigative Radiology and the Journal of Forensic Sciences.

Dr. Lazenby¹s current research program addresses the origins of human handedness through a comparative study of geometric morphometric variation in the hand skeleton of human and non-human primates. He is past-President of the Canadian Association for Physical Anthropology, and is a consulting forensic anthropologist for the Office of the Regional Coroner for northern British Columbia, and with the RCMP 'E' Division, attached to the Missing Women's Task Force in Vancouver.