Sofia is a first year PhD student in the Pan lab, where she studies the social behavior of wild bonobos. She holds a Bachelor's degree in Evolutionary Biology from Columbia University, and a Master of Arts in Teaching degree from New York University.
I am building mathematical models of social evolution and strategic interaction to study human culture and how it encodes and is encoded by our psychology, physiology, and environment. One focus is to explore how cooperative behavior emerges and deepens...
Michelle studies how evolutionary mismatches between small-scale and urban-industrial cultural environments shape the lives and well-being of adolescents and young adults. Before joining HEB, she received her B.A. in English and Computer Science from...
My research focusses mainly on questions related to aspects of competition and cooperation within and between groups. I make use of our closest living relatives, bonobos and chimpanzees as referential models, to infer about potential selective pressures...
My lab’s research asks how brains change in response to selection pressure on behavior, and how brains acquire heritable adaptations for complex, learned behaviors. Comparisons between modern humans and our living primate relatives provide a way to...
