Research

How does the social environment influence trait evolution? I combine field-based empirical methods with mathematical modeling to understand how the ecology of social environments influences trait evolution. I focus on reproductive traits, often behavioral ones. As a model for processes involved in social evolution the patterns that they produce, I currently investigate the evolution of ornaments and sexual signals in female animals living in polygynous mating systems.

The ecology and evolution of a sexual signal (and other costly strategies) in female primates.

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Mathematical models: the evolution of male mate choice and female ornamentation.

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