Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley Ph.D., Biology, University of St Andrews B.A., Zoology, University of Cambridge

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1 Thomas J. H. Morgan, Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology 900 S. Cady Mall, Tempe, AZ present Assistant Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology, Arizona State University Postdoctoral Researcher, UC Berkeley Ph.D., Biology, University of St Andrews B.A., Zoology, University of Cambridge $4.5M grant FP from DARPA through NGS2 Project entitled Culture-On-A-Chip Computing: Crowdsourced Simulations of Culture, Group Formation, And Collective Identity, in collaboration with UC Berkeley $474,697 grant from the NSF. Project entitled Testing evolutionary hypotheses through largescale behavioral simulations. 1. Cross, C.P., Brown, G.R., Morgan, T.J.H. & Laland, K.N. (2016). Sex differences in confidence influence patterns of conformity. British Journal of Psychology Morgan, T.J.H. (2016). Testing the Cognitive and Cultural Niche Theories of Human Evolution. Current Anthropology. 57(3):

2 3. Muthukrishna, M., Morgan, T. J. H., & Henrich, J. (2016). The when and who of social learning and conformist transmission. Evolution and Human Behavior, 37(1), Morgan, T. J. H., & Harris, P. L. (2015). James Mark Baldwin and contemporary theories of culture and evolution. European Journal of Developmental Psychology, 5629, Morgan, T. J. H., Uomini, N. T., Rendell, L. E., Street, S. E., Lewis, H. M., Cross, C. P., Evans, C., Kearney, R., de la Torre, I., Whiten, A., & Laland, K. N. (2015). Experimental evidence for the co-evolution of hominin tool-making teaching and language. Nature Communications, 6, Morgan, T. J. H., K. Laland & P. L. Harris (2014). The Development of Adaptive Conformity in Young Children: Effects of Uncertainty and Consensus. Developmental Science. 7. Mesoudi, A., S. Blanchet, A. Charmantier, É. Danchin, L. Fogarty, E. Jablonka, K. N. Laland, T. J. H. Morgan, G. B. Müller, F. J. Odling- Smee & B. Pujol (2013). Is Non-genetic Inheritance Just a Proximate Mechanism? A Corroboration of the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis. Biological Theory, Morgan, T. J. H., & K. N. Laland (2012). The Biological Bases of Conformity. Frontiers in Neuroscience 6, Morgan, T. J. H., L. E. Rendell, M. Ehn, W. J. E. Hoppitt, and K. N. Laland (2011). The Evolutionary Basis of Human Social Learning. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 10. Rendell, L. E., L. Fogarty, W. J. E. Hoppitt, T. J. H. Morgan, M. M. Webster, and K. N. Laland (2011). Cognitive Culture: Theoretical and Empirical Insights into Social Learning Strategies. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 15, Morgan, T. J. H., & Griffiths, T. L. (2015). What the Baldwin Effect affects. Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society. 1. Morgan, T. J. H., C. P. Cross & L. E. Rendell. (2015) Nothing in Human Behavior Makes Sense Except in the Light of Culture: Shared Interests of Social Psychology and Cultural Evolution. In

3 Zeigler-Hill, V., L. L. M. Welling & T. K. Shackelford (eds) Evolutionary Perspectives on Social Psychology. Springer. 2. Laland, K. N., A. Cowie, & T. J. H. Morgan (2013) What animals other than primates can tell us about human cultural transmission. In Ellen, R., Lycett, S., Johns, S. (eds) Understanding Cultural Transmission in Anthropology. Berghahn: New York/Oxford. 1. Evolutionary consequences of learning, culture and complex behaviors. 85 th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, Gene-culture interactions and the evolution of human cognition. Society for American Archaeology Conference, The development of adaptive conformity. Society for Research in Child Development Conference, What the Baldwin Effect affects. Human Behavior and Evolution Society Conference Genetic control of non-genetic inheritance: Fact or fallacy? European Society for Evolutionary Biology, Culture and decision making. Laland Lab Conference, The evolutionary basis of human social learning. European Human Behavior and Evolution Association, 2011 (awarded best student talk) The evolutionary basis of human social learning. University of St Andrews Biology Postgraduate Conference, How plasticity can re-direct evolution, EvoDevo PanAm, What the Baldwin Effect affects, CogSci Conference, The social transmission of Oldowan lithic technology, The Paleoanthropology Society Conference, Confidence, consensus & conformity in children, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, The social transmission of flint knapping technology, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, The evolutionary basis of social learning, Association for the Study

4 of Animal Behaviour Summer Conference, Social learning strategies in humans, European Human Behaviour and Evolution Association Conference, Social learning strategies in humans, University of St Andrews Biology Postgraduate Conference, Gene-culture interactions and cognitive evolution, UC Davis, A history of evolution and development. UC Berkeley The co-evolution of culture and cognition. UC Berkeley Stone tool-making and the evolution of teaching and language. University of British Columbia, The evolutionary basis of human social learning. Anglia Ruskin University, The evolutionary basis of human social learning. Durham University, 2011 I make an effort to review a paper for each time someone has reviewed a paper on which I am first author. I have reviewed manuscripts for PNAS, Proceedings of the Royal Society B, Current Anthropology, Cognitive Science, Biology Letters, Animal Behavior, Human Nature, Evolution and Human Behavior, and PLOS ONE. I have developed the following courses: 1. Bones, Stones and Human Evolution. An online course introducing students to evolutionary anthropology. Topics covered include evolutionary theory, genetics, cultural inheritance, human evolution and gene-culture coevolution. Course will debut Fall, Bayesian Statistics: Theory and Practice. An in-person course teaching final year undergraduates and Ph.D. students how to perform Bayesian analyses using MCMC methods in R, JAGS and STAN. In addition, it covers the theoretical underpinnings of Bayesian probability theory. Course will debut Spring

5 I have served as a guest lecturer on several other courses, topics include evolutionary theory, cultural evolution, evolutionary developmental biology and a guide to finding a job in academia. I have tutored groups of 5-10 undergraduates for a range of courses covering all years of undergraduate study. Topics include evolutionary biology, physics, history, art history, politics and philosophy. I have supervised research projects carried by undergraduates, graduate students, and as of September 2017 I will begin supervising a team of three postdoctoral researchers Associate Researcher, St Leonard's School, St Andrews. A paid position with the goal of educating final year high school students about current research, academic methodologies and university life. Duties include giving lectures to final year students and being available to the School as a point-person from the University Royal Society 350 th Anniversary Science Expo, South Bank Centre, London. A large-scale event in London for visitors of all ages and backgrounds. Many visitors had relevant knowledge and came to be made aware of recent research Dundee Science Expo. A large event focusing on young children Public event at Sensation Science Centre, Dundee. A museum event for families with young children assuming no relevant knowledge.