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Editorial board

Editor-in-Chief

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Professor Ruth Mace

University College London, UK

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

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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.

Patrick Barclay

Professor Patrick Barclay 

University of Guelph, Canada

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Caroline Schuppli

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.

Rebecca Sear EHS

Professor Rebecca Sear 

Brunel University London, UK

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.

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Dr Dietrich Stout

Emory University, USA

Dr. Stout’s research combines Paleolithic archaeology with cognitive neuroscience to study the evolution of the human brain and cognition. 

Prof Chris Venditti

Professor Chris Venditti 

University of Reading, UK

Chris’ research interests are focused on using and developing comparative statistical and phylogenetic methods to address a wide range of evolutionary question. Specifically, he is interested in adaptation, speciation, rates of phenotypic and genetic evolution, and hominin evolution.

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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.