I'm an evolutionist, interested in how selectionist and adaptationist frameworks can explain what exists biologically, psychologically, culturally and cosmologically. I received my PhD in 2003 from the UC Santa Barbara Center for Evolutionary Psychology, for a dissertation focusing on adaptations for cooperation among Amazonian hunter-horticulturalists. From 2003-06 I was a postdoc sponsored by the Indiana University Workshop in Political Theory and Policy Analysis and the Santa Fe Institute, and a Visiting Lecturer at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis. Since 2006 I've been at Brunel University London, where I'm currently Senior Lecturer in Psychology.