Studying social structure and the evolution of sociality
With another SFI postdoc, Andy Rominger, I mentored local high school student Brandi Sanchez this spring through SFI’s high school mentoring program. Brandi was a student at the Santa Fe Indian School, completing her Senior project.… [Read full details]
I participated in a working group at SFI on cumulative culture. I also gave a talk where I discussed the potential for the seeds of cumulative culture to emerge from animal and human interaction rules.
Overview of the working group (from SFI’s coverage here):
Throughout human evolutionary history, individuals have developed new ideas, materials, and technologies, then passed them on to other individuals and groups.
I participated in (and gave a talk at) a working group at SFI where we focused on collective computation in animal and human model systems, using both behavior and neural data to try and understand commonalities in how individuals come to consensus decisions.… [Read full details]