Martin Zettersten

I study language – how we learn it and what we do with it.
Thom Scott-Phillips

What sort of creatures are we? Humans are like other apes in many ways, but whatever differences do exist, they combine to generate the social and cultural systems that shapes our lives: Languages, symbols, technologies, institutions, democracies and more. How and why does this happen? Why are we like this? These are the big questions […]
Gillian Brown

I am interested in all aspects of sex/gender differences in behaviour, from how hormones during early life influence the developmental trajectory of female and male animals, to how social and cultural factors influence gender differences in human cognition and behaviour, and how evolutionary theory can be used to understand gender differences and similarities.