I draw on evolutionary and social science theories to examine how social, economic, and reproductive inequalities emerge and are maintained in human social systems. I am particularly interested in the ecology and cultural evolutionary history of colonial social systems and their modern consequences. The central question of most of my research is simple: How do different systems of inequality emerge and interact? For instance, inequalities exist among the continents, among nation-states, and among regions within nation-states. How do these large-scale inequities interact with systems of inequality at smaller-scales...say, at the community, kin group, or household level? How do interactions between different systems of inequality interact with the behavior of individuals? What are the proximate and ultimate causes for these interactions? And finally, how are the systems of inequality found among humans similar to and unique from those found in other biosocial systems?
Read more about some of my recent and on-going modeling and research projects on human (and other diploid organism) inequalities here.
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