Richard McElreath
Associate Professor, PhD, University of California, Los Angeles, 2001
University of California, Davis
One Shields Avenue
Davis, California 95616, USA
Telephone: (530) 752-2660
Fax: (530) 752-8885
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Office Hours for Winter 2012:
- By Appointment only
Education:
- I received my Bachelor's degree from Emory University and my graduate degrees from the University of California, Los Angeles. I did my dissertation research in Tanzania and held a post-doctoral position at the Max Planck Institute for Human Development in Berlin before joining the faculty at Davis in 2002.
Biography:
Research Interests
I am an evolutionary ecologist who studies humans. My main interest is in how the evolution of fancy social learning in humans accounts for the unusual nature of human adaptation and extraordinary scale and variety of human societies. Humans are more widespread and successful than any other vertebrate. Simultaneously, humans are unlike any other animal in that we cooperate in very large groups of unrelated individuals. I and my colleagues use formal evolutionary models, experiments and ethnographic fieldwork to address these puzzles.
I also have strong interests in general evolutionary ecology, especially the evolution of social behavior.
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