Evolution, Cognition, and Culture

Core Faculty

 James Boster (cognitive, psychological, & linguistic anthropology, cognitive ecology, cultural variation)

 Penn Handwerker (origin of cultures, evolution of decision-making mechanisms, violence, human well-being)

 Richard Sosis (evolution of religion, collective action problems, evolution of cooperation)

Affiliated Faculty

 Daniel Adler (Neanderthal behavioral, economic, and technological evolution in Eurasia; Neanderthal settlement, subsistence, and land use)

 Pamela Erickson (influence of cultural, social, economic, and political factors on health and disease in human populations)

 Sally McBrearty (human evolution, particularly the origin of Homo sapiens, paleolithic archaeology, African prehistory)

 Natalie Munro (transition to agriculture, Epipaleolithic and Neolithic societies of Southwest Asia and the Mediterranean basin)

 Alexia Smith (agriculture, agricultural development, palaeoethnobotany, climate change and landscape use, ecological anthropology)

 Richard Wilson (human rights, political & legal anthropology, political violence, history & memory, social theory)