Hello. My name’s Claire, I’m a Post-Doctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford University. I’m a member of the Economics, Politics and Sociology research groups at Nuffield College and I’m a Research Fellow in the Zoology Department.
I’m interested in using evolutionary theory to understand cooperative behaviours, particularly in humans. Cooperation occurs at all levels of biological complexity – from bacteria, to insects, to humans. Cooperation underpins biological complexity – you are a product of cooperation between you genes, organelles and cells. However, if natural selection results in the survival of the fittest, how can it favour behaviours which benefit others? There are many answers – and I find them fascinating.
I completed my DPhil in August 2011 at Christ Church, University of Oxford. My thesis, supervised by Prof. Stuart West and Dr. Andy Gardner, was entitled ‘The evolution of cooperation, especially in humans’.
One of my goals is to build cross-disciplinary collaborations so if you are an anthropologist, psychologist, economist or sociologist who wants to know about evolutionary theory, then please get in touch
