David Lawson

Professor David Lawson is an evolutionary and cultural anthropologist interested in family life, gender and global health. He directs the Applied Evolutionary Anthropology Lab at the University of California, Santa Barbara. Their research aims to better understand conflicts and trade-offs in family relationships and life history transitions, and in turn inform related public/global health practice. To do this they conduct mixed-methods field research, mostly in Tanzania, online surveys and secondary analyses of demographic datasets.