SFI has named evolutionary anthropologist Paul Hooper as a new Omidyar Fellow for 2012, selected from more than 200 applicants.
Hooper in September 2012 will join the nine Omidyar Fellows now at SFI.
Hooper holds a PhD in anthropology and integrative biology from the University of New Mexico. His research centers on the co-evolution of human economic systems, demography, and social structure. He combines demographic and game theoretic modeling with ethnographic research to explore the natural history of human economics, reproduction, and sociality; the structure of human social networks; and cross-societal variation in social and reproductive inequality. At the Institute, he plans to continue his work toward historically accurate models of social evolution.
A gift from Pierre and Pam Omidyar in 2008 established the Omidyar Fellowship, which aims to attract to SFI early-career scholars from the social, physical, and natural sciences. Omidyar Fellows spend two to three years at SFI as postdoctoral fellows pursuing the research questions of their choice.
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