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...
I am interested in animal behavioral ecology and how it can help us understand the evolution of human social and political behavior. Since 1987 I have studied chimpanzee behavior in Kibale National Park, Uganda (Kibale Chimpanzee Project, https:/...
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...
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...
