Faculty
Prof Michael Cant, Professor of Evolutionary Biology
Human behavioural ecology, evolution of menopause, cooperative breeding
Dr Sasha Dall
Associate Professor of
Mathematical Ecology
Social information use, evolution of personality
Dr Kimberley Hockings, Lecturer in Biosciences
Human-wildlife interactions and conservation conflicts, great ape behaviour, ecology, and cognition, primate conservation
Human behavioural ecology, evolution of cooperation, self-deception
Dr Erik Postma, Senior Lecturer
Human life history, evolutionary genetics, selection pressures on physical fitness
Dr Alex Thornton, Associate Professor in Cognitive Evolution
Evolution of cognition, animal behaviour, cultural evolution, teaching
Dr Thomas Currie, Associate Professor in Cultural Evolution
Cultural evolution, evolution of social complexity, cultural phylogenetics
Dr Jamie Hampson, Senior Lecturer in History
Cognitive archaeology, indigenous rock art, heritage studies, indigenous ontology
Dr Bram Kuijper, Lecturer in Theoretical Biology
Nongenetic inheritance, parental effects
Dr Alex Mesoudi, Associate Professor in Cultural Evolution
Human cultural evolution, social learning
Prof Andy Russell, Professor of Animal Behaviour
Human life history, cooperative breeding, evolution of cooperation
Dr Ruth Thurstan, Lecturer in Biosciences
Marine historical ecology, conservation
Postgraduate students / Fellows
Matthew Lomas, PhD student
Cultural evolution, theory of mind, teaching
Dugald Foster, PhD student
Evolution of cooperation, cultural evolution, behavioural ecology, evolutionary demography.
Andoni Sergiou, PhD student
Cumulative culture, social network modelling, cultural evolution in neural networks and A.I. agents
Past members / visitors
Dr Charlotte Brand, postdoctoral research fellow
Cultural evolution, prestige, evolution of sex differences
André Borba, visiting PhD student, 2017, Laboratory of Ecology and Evolution, UFRPE, Brazil
Cultural evolution, prestige
Dr Adam Flitton, PhD student
Evolution of economic behaviours and money
Stefan Gehrig, PhD student
Human cooperation, economic institutions and behavior, ecological sustainability
Dr Maxime Derex, Marie Curie Fellow
Cultural evolution, cumulative culture
Prof Monique Borgerhoff Mulder, UC Davis
Visiting on sabbatical, Sep-Dec 2017
Dr Michael Gantley, postdoctoral research associate
Group cooperation, evolution of culturally-inherited social rules, cultural evolution, human cognition
Dr Alice Williams, PhD student
Archaeological patterns of state formation
Dr Amanda Lucas, postdoctoral research fellow
Social learning and cultural cognition in infants and children