Cecilia Padilla-Iglesias
Postdoc - Hunter-gatherer population dynamics
I am a Research Fellow at Emmanuel College and at the Evolutionary Ecology Group. I am interested on the social and ecological drivers of the diversity of ways in which humans live and have lived throughout our evolutionary history. Moreover, how this diversity has shaped our genetic and cultural makeup.
To investigate these questions, I combine methods and data from population genetics, climatic reconstructions, archaeology and ethnographic research among the BaYaka hunter-gatherers in the Republic of Congo.
Keywords: Population genetics, Behavioural ecology, Human evolutionary history, Cultural evolution