I am an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at College of the Canyons. I did my doctoral work in the School of Human Evolution and Social Change at Arizona State University.
My general research interests are in infant and juvenile social development. I study primates because they are characterized by some of the most protracted developmental periods among mammals, and because what we learn about non-human primate development can be used to understand better the evolutionary history of our own.
My specific research interests are in understanding how developmental systems produce primate behavioral sex differentiation, with an eye toward elucidating the evolutionary histories of different system components (e.g., particular components of socialization, particular aspects of individual physiology, etc.), as these data are useful for testing hypotheses about the evolutionary history of human gender. I have recently begun to work on cognitive development.
My general research interests are in infant and juvenile social development. I study primates because they are characterized by some of the most protracted developmental periods among mammals, and because what we learn about non-human primate development can be used to understand better the evolutionary history of our own.
My specific research interests are in understanding how developmental systems produce primate behavioral sex differentiation, with an eye toward elucidating the evolutionary histories of different system components (e.g., particular components of socialization, particular aspects of individual physiology, etc.), as these data are useful for testing hypotheses about the evolutionary history of human gender. I have recently begun to work on cognitive development.
