Justin Yeh
Postdoctoral Fellow
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
Phone: +49 341 3550 339
E-mail: justin_yeheva.mpgde
Personal website:
https://djustinyeh.wordpress.com/
Research Interests
I am an evolutionary biologist interested in adapting mathematical models of speciation to the study of group formation and cultural divergence. Ideas such as linkage disequilibrium, mutation order, and selection against intermediates are important in speciation. I investigate the possibility of applying these concepts to the study of cultural evolution. Earlier in my PhD study at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill I used analytical and computational modelling to investigate how the learning of mate choice signals and preferences affects speciation.
Curriculum Vitae
Education and Employment
| 2018- Current | Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Leipzig, Germany |
| 2012- 2018 | Ph.D. in Biology, Program in Evolution, Ecology and Organismal Biology, Biology Department, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA |
| 2007- 2011 | B.S. in Life Science, with a Minor in Political Science, National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan |
Grants and Awards
| 2017-2018 | Dissertation Completion Fellowship, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| 2010- 2011 | Research Grant for Undergraduate Students, National Science Council of Taiwan |
Selected Teaching Experience
| 2017 | Guest Lecture for The Mathematics of Life – Honors |
| 2014 & 2016 | Graduate Research Consultant for Mathematical and Computational Models in Biology |
| 2014 - 2015 | TA for Animal Behavior Lab |
| 2013 - 2015 | TA for Evolution and Ecology Recitation |
Publications
2019
Yeh, J. (2019). Assortative mating by an obliquely transmitted local cultural trait promotes genetic divergence: A model. The American Naturalist, 193(1), 81-92. |
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Yeh, J., Fogarty, L., & Kandler, A. (2019). Cultural linkage: The influence of package transmission on cultural dynamics. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286: 20191951. |
Open Access2018
Yeh, J., Boughman, J. W., Sætre, G.-P., & Servedio, M. R. (2018). The evolution of sexual imprinting through reinforcement*. Evolution, 72(7), 1336-1349. |
2015
Yeh, J., & Servedio, M. R. (2015). Reproductive isolation with a learned trait in a structured population. Evolution, 69(7), 1938-1947. |
2014
Servedio, M. R., Brandvain, Y., Dhole, S., Fitzpatrick, C. L., Goldberg, E. E., Stern, C. A., Van Cleve, J., & Yeh, J. (2014). Not Just a Theory—The Utility of Mathematical Models in Evolutionary Biology. PLOS Biology, 12(12): e1002017, pp. 1-5. |