Mira obtained her B.S. in Biology at Utrecht University in The Netherlands. She began her Ph.D. in the Human Evolutionary Biology department in 2021. Mira is broadly interested in knowing what makes human brains different from other animals. Specifically...
Amar completed master's degrees in psychology at the University of Oxford (Brasenose College) and neuroscience at the University of Cambridge (Trinity College). He also worked for several years as a research assistant in the Department of Experimental...
I'm interested in how brains evolve. Our lab uses canines to study breed-specific behaviors. We also use existing non-human primate data to investigate neuroanatomical differences that might contribute to cognitive/behavioral differences between species.
I study how motherhood shapes the social behavior of females using wild bonobos as a model organism. I specifically look at patterns of female sociality and social relationship formation.
