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Email: m.thomas.10@ucl.ac.uk
Room: 326 (Postgraduate Workroom 1)
Year of start: 2012
Subject: Evolutionary Anthropology
Research Topic/ Provisional Dissertation Title
A comparative study of human kinship variation
Supervisor(s)
Ruth Mace
Introduction
My research uses computer simulations and optimality modelling techniques to explore the roles played by demography, ecology, culture and kinship in human reproductive decision-making. The models will be informed by and compared to cross-cultural kinship, subsistence and fertility data.
Research interests
- Kinship systems
- Reproductive scheduling and the evolution of menopause
- Life history theory
- Cultural evolution
- Evolutionary simulations
Academic Background/Education
MSc (Distinction) Human Evolution and Behaviour (2011). University College London
Thesis: “The Social Menopause: Modelling the Effects of Demography on Reproductive Cessation”
BSc (Hons) Computer Science (2004). University of Southampton
Thesis: “Kithara: Software to Transcribe Live Musical Performance"
Honours and Awards
Funding
ERC
