Profiles in "Evolutionary Anthropology" Expertise Area

  • Boyd is one of the world's leading minds on cultural evolution. He studies the mechanisms that produce human culture and how they interact with population dynamic processes to shape cultural variation.
  • Silk moved to ASU in 2012, from UCLA. She is interested in how natural selection shapes the evolution of social behavior in primates.
  • Gilby studies wild chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. His research focuses on cooperative hunting, meat sharing and male dominance strategies, and informs our understanding of the behavior of early hominins.
  • Mathew is an evolutionary anthropologist studying the origins of human cooperation and warfare. She conducts field research among Turkana pastoralists in Kenya.
  • Perreault's research focuses on the intersection of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology.
  • Lenfesty investigates the evolutionary origins of religion and morality, with a focus on mechanisms of cooperation.
  • Hinde investigates the food, medicine, and signal of mother's milk and impact on babies at the intersection of social, life, and medical sciences.
  • Ozga is a Postdoctoral Fellow in Center for Evolution & Medicine. He earned his PhD in Anthropology at the University of Oklahoma in 2015 for his dissertation on Viral Metagenomics and Anthropology in the Americas.
  • Morgan's background concerns the evolution of animal social behavior and cognition. He received his doctorate from the University of St Andrews and then worked as a postdoc at UC Berkeley before joining ASU in 2016.
  • Amanda Slotter is a PhD candidate in the Evolutionary Anthropology approach in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change studying early hominin evolution.