Eva Brandl
Research staff
Abteilung für Verhalten, Ökologie und Kultur des Menschen
Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Telefon: +49 (0) 341 3550 760
E-Mail:
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I am an anthropologist with a background in social and evolutionary anthropology, including behavioural ecology and cultural evolution. Broadly, I am interested in kinship, marriage, childrearing, and child development, which I investigate using biocultural and mixed-methods approaches. My regional specialty is on Melanesia and the South Pacific; my field work has focused on rural areas of Vanuatu. My doctoral work examined cultural influences on child development in Vanuatu and, more broadly, topics related to the cultural evolution of cognition and learning. I also did research on child circulation and residence arrangements. My postdoctoral research examines customary marriage exchanges such as bride price – how they evolve, how they affect women’s status, and how they are changing under modernization.
I am a member of the BirthRites independent research group.
Education
| 2021 | PhD Biological Anthropology Department of Anthropology, University College London |
| 2016 | MPhil Social Anthropology School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford |
| 2014 | BA Comparative Religion Interfaculty Programme for the Study of Religion, Ludwig Maximilians University Munich, with a year abroad at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Publications
Im Druck
Brandl, E., Micheletti, A., & Mace, R. (in press). Was ist eigentlich Kulturevolution? In M. Hammerl, S. Schwarz, & K. Willführ ( |
2024
Brandl, E., & Colleran, H. (2024). Does bride price harm women? Using ethnography to think about causality. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 6: e29, pp. 1-22. |
Open Access2023
Micheletti, A., Brandl, E., Zhang, H., Peacey, S., & Mace, R. (2023). Cultural evolution research needs to include human behavioural ecology. In A. du Crest ( |
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Brandl, E., Mace, R., & Heyes, C. (2023). The cultural evolution of teaching. Evolutionary Human Sciences, 5: e14. |
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Brandl, E., Emmott, E. H., & Mace, R. (2023). Development of teaching in ni-Vanuatu children. Child Development, 94(6), 1713-1729. |
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Brandl, E., Emmott, E., & Mace, R. (2023). Adoption, fostering and parental absence in Vanuatu. Human Nature, 34(3), 422-455. |
2022
Micheletti, A. J. C., Brandl, E., & Mace, R. (2022). What is cultural evolution anyway? Behavioral Ecology, 33(4), 667-669. |
Whitehouse, H., Turchin, P., Francois, P., Hoyer, D., Nugent, S. [et al, including Brandl, E.] (2022). Big Gods and Big Science: Further reflections on theory, data, and analysis. Religion, Brain and Behavior.
DOI
Larson, J., Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P. , Hoyer, D., Nugent, S. [et al, including Brandl, E.] (2022). Explaining the rise of moralizing religions: A test of competing hypotheses using the SESHAT databank. Religion, Brain and Behavior.
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2019
Brandl, E. (2019). Survey of late complexity societies. In: D. Hoyer and J. Reddish (eds.): The SESHAT History of the Axial Age. Beresta Books
2018
Currie, T. E. , Turchin, P., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P. , Feeney, K., Mullins, D., Hoyer, D. [et al, including Brandl, E.] (2018). Reply to Tosh et al: Quantitative analyses of cultural evolution require engagement with historical and archaeological research. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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2017
Turchin, P., Currie, T. E., Whitehouse, H., Francois, P. , Feeney, K., Mullins, D., Hoyer, D. [et al, including Brandl, E.] (2017). Quantitative historical analysis uncovers a single dimension of complexity that structures global variation in human social organization. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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