I'm an evolutionary biologist, particularly interested in how the social environment and relationships between organisms can influence evolution. I'm an Assistant Professor at Oxford College of Emory University, where I teach introductory biology to majors and non-majors.
I use quantitative genetic techniques to investigate the heritability of social behaviors and life history traits in wild baboons (in collaboration with Susan Alberts at Duke University). I'm also interested in the role of indirect genetic effects on behavior and their contribution to evolutionary constraint, which I investigate in baboons in the wild as well as Drosophilia melanogaster in the lab. |