Research and teaching concerning the evolutionary behavioral ecology of animals and humans. I’m always looking for opportunities to teach, mentor, and enter into research collaborations. Note my ongoing specialty courses, "The Evolution of Religiosity and Human Coalitional Psychology" and "Field Studies in the Evolution of Animal Behavior."

Research in evolutionary behavioral ecology since 1980, opportunistically teaching same since 1986. FLBS is the location of my current Field Course in Animal Behavior.

Research and teaching field studies in the evolution of animal behavior; Faculty Affilate.

Late in my graduate career at Cornell, I was invited by the then, “Max Planck Institute for Behavioural Physiology,” Seewiesen, to set up from scratch (!), a full laboratory for performing isozyme-based paternity exclusion analyses in virtually any species; this was before the time that direct DNA-based paternity analyses were feasible. I had developed expertise in these highly esoteric methods at Cornell’s own isozyme lab under the sage instruction of Dr. Bernard May, in connection with my early research on the sexual selection system of the sierra dome spider. Upon completion of setup, I made a first attempt to look at genetic relatedness amongst individuals from different colonies of African social spiders (Stegodyphus sp.) Major colleagues: Drs. Uli Reyer, Walter Arnold, Uta Seibt, and Wolfgang Wickler. What a challenging, magical, stimulating time that was! See: https://www.orn.mpg.de/3149/History