Personal Statement
I am an evolutionary anthropologist with interests in the Middle Stone Age of Eastern Africa, the effects of palaeoclimatic change and variability on hominin evolution and dispersal, the evolution of hominin life history, and the evolution of hominin cognition and culture. I also work on developing new quantitative and computational methods for studying the archaeological record.

Research Overview
My research focuses on the impacts of climatic change and variability on human evolution, with a particular emphasis on the evolution of behavioural plasticity and its relationship to the archaeological and fossil records of hominin dispersal. My five current PhD students conduct research in areas ranging from the archaeological correlates of demographic variation to the environmental bases of population structure in the Middle Stone Age of eastern Africa.