Computer Science Graduate, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
As a visiting master’s student, I worked on the phylogenetics of culture. I investigated whether cultural practices (such as religion, government, food preferences, etc.) can be properly studied using...
I hail from Toronto, Canada where I studied Commerce and Finance, Economics, and Psychology at the University of Toronto. During my spare time I meddled around in emotions research with Drs.Stephane Cote and Julie McCarthy and their graduate students at...
Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Purdue University
My most long-standing general theoretical interest is in the implications of evolution for human thought and behavior. What began as an interest in the evolution of moral behavior has now transformed...
Dr. Tanya Broesch was a graduate student in the Cognition and Development program in the Department of Psychology at Emory University. She graduated from St.F.X. University in 2001, was a CIPA funded Coady Intern for 2001-2002 in Kenya – at which time she...
My research focuses on Economic Growth, Development, History and Culture. I am particularly interested in the deep-rooted factors that shape the coevolution of culture and institutions. I combine theory of human development and cultural evolution with...
My research interests lie in the intersection of complex social behavior and cognition. More specifically, I am interested in mechanisms underlying cooperation, reciprocity, inequity, and other economic decisions in nonhuman primates from an evolutionary...
I came to UBC with a joint BA in Anthropology and Psychology from Washington University in St. Louis. Between my time at Wash U and UBC, I spent a year as the lab manager for Karen Wynn's Infant Cognition Center at Yale University. In my work, I am...
The origin of our big brain and sophisticated cognitive abilities remains an evolutionary puzzle. The social theory of intellect from the 1960s proposed that social demands drove the evolution of primate intelligence, challenging the then traditional view...
