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Research Interests

Broadly, evolutionary scientists study any system that can evolve. That is, any system where "information reproduces" (Nowak 2006). Evolutionary anthropologists study evolutionary forces acting on different systems of information transmission in humans, be they cultural, epigenetic, or genetic in scope.  I am interested in the dynamical analogies between these systems, and their unique properties, as well. I am also interested in any system that can reach one or many possible equilibria, and understanding the reasons why one, some, or none of these equilibria might be reached in a given human system. 

    The projects I am currently working on range from purely theoretical work on bargaining outcomes and the emergence and maintenance of social inequality; to the behavioral ecology of migration, kinship, and remittances; to using ecological and economic theory to explain the rise and fall of Mayan polities; to understanding the correlates of human morphology and fighting prowess.  Future projects may apply my theoretical perspective to model stabilizing selection on the human female reproductive lifespan.

    I follow Darwin's example by envisioning my work ultimately as a systematic exercise in natural philosophy.  Doing so, I highlight three words, arrayed in the links below, that embody my research interests.  Explore.

INEQUALITY        BARGAINING        TERRITORIALITY