Michael D. Gurven
Michael D. Gurven is an American anthropologist and Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB). He is co-founder and co-director of the Tsimane Health and Life History Project, a long-running biomedical and anthropological study of the Tsimane people of the Bolivian Amazon. His research integrates biodemography, human biology, and evolutionary anthropology to study human life history, aging, cardiovascular health, the evolution of cooperation, and health effects of modernization. Gurven's findings on low rates of chronic diseases among the Tsimane and the evolutionary roots of human longevity have received widespread attention in outlets such as ''BBC News'', ''Aeon'', ''The Washington Post'', and ''Scientific American''. He is the author of ''Seven Decades: How We Evolved to Live Longer'' (Princeton University Press, 2025), which challenges notions of short ancestral lifespans and has been reviewed in ''Arab News''.
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