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Joseph Watts

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Senior lecturer, University of Otago

We humans are a particularly odd ape. We live in colossal societies, worship supernatural beings and prune our body hair according to fashion. Underlying this oddity is our capacity for culture. As a researcher I am interested in how human cultures evolve and the cognitive abilities underlying this.

Experience

  • –present
    PhD Candidate in The Evolution of Religion, University of Auckland

Education

  • 2012 
    University of Auckland, BSc Honours, Psychology