Category: People

Brian Hare is a professor of evolutionary anthropology at Duke University. He researches the evolution of cognition by studying both humans, our close relatives the primates (especially bonobos and chimpanzees), and species whose cognition converged with our own (primarily domestic dogs) . He founded and co-directs the Duke Canine Cognition Center.

Sheina Lew-Levy holds a PhD in Psychology from the University of Cambridge. She is currently a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology.

Duncan Stibbard Hawkes is an evolutionary anthropologist at the University of Durham. He conducts field research with a Tanzanian population called the Hadza, who traditionally subsisted through hunting and gathering. His research has focussed on the motives underlying hunting, foraging, and food-sharing. He’s about to start a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship investigating the ecological factors…

Geoffrey Hughes is a lecturer in anthropology at the University of Exeter and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan.

Dor Shilton is a PhD student in the Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas in Tel Aviv University. He studies the interactive roots of music and the relationship between participatory musicking and social organization.

Malvika Gupta is a D.Phil. candidate in the international development department at the University of Oxford. Her doctoral thesis focuses on Indigenous politics, statehood, and intercultural education in Ecuador and India. She has worked on the issue of Indigenous education in India as a practitioner and researcher, and has published several articles on it. Her…

Jacob Fishel is a performing artist residing in New York City.  A graduate of The Juilliard School, he has performed on and off Broadway and on stages across the United States.  In 2013, he was the recipient of the Linda Gross Playing Shakespeare Award from the New York Shakespeare Society.

Lionel Sims is retired head of Anthropology, International Politics, International Development and Refugee Studies at the University of East London and retired Vice President of the European Society for Astronomy in Culture. For the last thirty years I have been conducting research into prehistoric monuments such as Stonehenge and Avebury, prehistoric Basque culture and European…

Mark G. Thomas is Professor of Evolutionary Genetics at the Research Department of Genetics, Evolution and Environment at University College London. In 2009 – in collaboration with Prof Stephen Shennan and Dr Adam Powell – Thomas published a study in the journal Science showing that population density and or migratory activity are likely to be…

James Woodburn is the world’s leading theorist on egalitarian hunter-gatherer societies; he has just returned from visiting the Hadza people of Tanzania.