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New paper - How evolutionarybehavioural sciences canhelp us understandbehaviour in a pandemic12/10/2020
With colleagues at UCL & Lanzhou University, I wrote a paper exploring how understanding the evolutionary basis of our behaviour can help us respond to this pandemic. We cover compliance, social distancing, domestic violence, contact tracing, misinformation and, lastly, international cooperation ― the section I took the lead on writing. See paper here.  First day as an ERC Research Fellow in Evolutionary Anthropology in the Department of Anthropology, University College London: I'm extremely excited to join the Human Evolutionary Ecology Group headed by Prof Ruth Mace and I'm looking forward new collaborations.  I wrote a short commentary to an excellent paper reviewing Cultural Group Selection theory. I highlighted the need to separate the effects of Cultural Selection 1 and Cultural Selection 2 and highlighted the need to develop tools to model the former. See paper here! 
PhD awarded -- the end of a truly enriching and rewarding journey! Thanks to all that have helped me along the way, from my supervisors, to fellow PhD students, to my parents at home and all my friends in St Andrews & beyond!
Started a short 3-month ERC-funded Research Fellow positions in Andy Gardner's Lab, School of Biology, University of St Andrews.
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