Sarah Mathew
Assistant ProfessorPh.D., University of California Los Angeles, 2011
Teaching
Courses will include Evolution of Human Behavior, Evolution of Cooperation, and Behavioral Ecology
Research Interests
I study the evolution of cooperation in humans and the role of culture
in enabling it. I do this using formal models and field studies. I am
particularly interested in how humans evolved to cooperate on
extremely large scales that can include millions of people, and how
this ties with the origins of norms, moral sentiments and prosocial
preferences. I conduct fieldwork among the Turkana, an acephalous
pastoral society in East Africa, examining how they solve the
collective action problem in cattle raids, and how they sustain
cooperation in various other domains of social life.
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