The Formative Years
I joined the IPEM program in 2007, when my academic niche had reach final stages of construction. Cooperation and cultural transmission, two of the core themes of the program, had been of interest to me from the start of my graduate career, but it was topics in life history theory that ended up most influencing my thinking. My anthropology MA thesis, which I wrote under the guidance of Rob Quinlan here at WSU, tested predictions of life history theory.
