General Interests
My main research explores the factors enabling cumulative culture – i.e. culture that evolves over time by way of treating earlier cultural items as stepping stones for later ones.
I do this by studying nonhuman animals (great apes, dogs and dolphins) and human children with a diverse set of methodological approaches, combining insights from developmental psychology, evolutionary biology, evolutionary archaeology, behavioural ecology and biological anthropology.
Through broadening the scope of species examined and developing research paradigms that can be applied non-linguistically, I hope to probe the origins of cumulative culture.
I am currently working as a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, working with Josep Call and Michael Tomasello. This offers me the unique possibility to study all genera of great apes at the Wolfgang-Köhler Primate Research Center (situated in the Zoo Leipzig).
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