The MSc in Palaeoanthropology provides an up-to-date foundation in the study of human evolution for people interested in human origins. The programme's especially suitable for graduates with a first degree in Archaeology, Anthropology, Earth or Life Sciences. Students will complete their programme with a dissertation of 15,000-20,000 words on an aspect of human evolution.

Liverpool aims to be flexible, supportive, encouraging and challenging in their approach to students. For example, if students are new to a topic they're very welcome to attend lectures offered in Year Three modules of the undergraduate programme in Evolutionary Anthropology. Fieldwork is an important part of research in archaeology and Liverpool has projects based internationally, in Egypt, Greece, Bulgaria, Jordan, Turkey, Italy, Zambia, Kenya, Ethiopia and South Africa, as well as in the British Isles.