Jennifer Vonk

Jennifer Vonk has a longstanding interest in evolutionary theory and comparative cognition. She studied psychology, culminating in an undergraduate thesis project on behavioral endocrinology at McMaster University, then went on to pursue an MA degree in the study of human memory, before investigating orangutan and gorilla concept formation during her doctoral studies at York University. During her postdoctoral work, she expanded her interests to the evolution of uniquely human cognitive capacities by conducting comparative studies with chimpanzees and children, and she is now exploring cognitive continuities and discontinuities in a broad range of species, including bears and psittacines, as well as human children and adults.

Todd K. Shackelford

Todd K. Shackelford received his PhD in evolutionary psychology in 1997 from the University of Texas at Austin, his MA in psychology from the University of Michigan in 1995, and his BA in psychology from the University of New Mexico in 1993. In 2010, Shackelford joined Oakland University as professor and chair of the department of psychology. Shackelford was previously professor of psychology at Florida Atlantic University, where he was founder and chair of the evolutionary psychology PhD program and director of the evolutionary psychology lab. Shackelford has published over 200 peer-reviewed articles and chapters in edited volumes and has co-edited six volumes.