Evolutionary Consequences of Human Multilevel Social Structure
- Date: Oct 14, 2024
- Time: 02:00 PM - 03:00 PM (Local Time Germany)
- Speaker: Andrea Migliano
- Location: Online
- Host: Human Palaeosystems Research Group
- Contact: kutowsky@gea.mpg.de
Prof. Migliano will discuss her work over the past 15 years on extant hunter-gatherers social structure and how the human foraging niche has shaped patterns of hunter-gatherers mobility, cooperation and cumulative cultural evolution.
About the Speaker
Andrea Migliano has completed her PhD in Biological Anthropology at the University of Cambridge in 2007, has held a Clare College Junior Research Fellowship from 2007-2010, when she became a Lecturer at UCL. Since 2018 she has been a Professor in Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Zurich. Her work focus on the evolution of human sociality cooperation and culture, using hunter-gatherers societies to understand the selective pressures associated to the human foraging niche.
She has active fieldsites in multiple countries (Philippines, Congo, Brazil, Indonesia and Nepal) and uses different methods from genetics to modelling human behaviour to understand human evolutionary history.