Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
I was invited to Arizona State to give a colloquium talk called “Understanding the evolution of social knowledge through conflict” for their Evolution of Social Complexity Colloquium. I had a great visit and really enjoyed meeting with the faculty, postdocs, and grad students.… [Read full details]
My recent paper on why parrots eat clay in Peru was covered in Forbes.
From Forbes
I attended the Behaviour meeting in Estoril Portugal and presented a poster called “The hidden structure of dominance hierarchies”. This project is a collaboration with Dan Monster and Simon DeDeo. I had a fantastic time at the meeting and really enjoyed seeing a bit of Portugal on the trip. … [Read full details]
My new paper, co-first-authored with Donald Brightsmith, was published in Ibis. In this paper, we weigh evidence for competing hypotheses about why parrots in the Peruvian rainforest eat clay.