Editor-in-Chief
Professor Ruth Mace
Ruth's research interest is in human behavioural ecology and cultural evolution, including the evolution of families, kinship, cooperation and conflict, working in China, Africa and the UK.
Editors
Dr Alexandra Alvergne
Université de Montpellier, France
Alex’s interests include evolutionary medicine and public health, applied evolutionary anthropology, human behavioral ecology, reproductive ecology, evolutionary epidemiology and cultural evolution.
Professor Patrick Barclay
Pat’s research interests are the evolution of cooperation, reputation, signalling, trust, and partner choice. He is also interested in behavioural game theory, risk-taking, and decision-making.
Professor Louise Barrett
University of Lethbridge, Canada
Louise's research interests are behavioural ecology of human and non-human primates, including mating strategies, determinants of fertility, parental investment, social network analysis, and the evolution of personality and behavioural plasticity. Also interests in embodied and enactivist cognition and the evolution of mind.
Professor Charles Efferson
University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Charles's research interests include gene-culture co-evolution, behavioral game theory, and the cultural evolution of harmful social norms and traditions.
Professor Evelyne Heyer
Muséum National d’histoire Naturelle, France
Evelyne's research interests include impact of culture on human genetic diversity including mate choice, social organization, language, intergenerational transmission of behaviors.
Dr Brooke Scelza
University of California, LA, USA
Brooke’s interests are in human behavioral ecology, with particular focus on reproductive decision-making, parental investment, and maternal and child health.
Dr Caroline Schuppli
Max Planck Institute of Animal Behavior, Germany
Caroline's research interests are cognitive evolution, the development of cognition, primate behavior, learning and skill acquisition, non-human culture, and comparative psychology.
Professor Rebecca Sear
Rebecca’s research interests are in human behavioural ecology and evolutionary demography, with a particular focus on the family and on cross-cultural research. She is also interested in issues related to research integrity.
Dr Dietrich Stout
Dr. Stout’s research combines Paleolithic archaeology with cognitive neuroscience to study the evolution of the human brain and cognition.
Professor Chuan-Chao Wang
Department of Anthropology and Ethnology, Xiamen University, China
Chuan-Chao is using population genomics and ancient DNA in combination with archaeology, linguistics, and history to understand genetic structure, origin and migrations, and anthropological traits in human populations.