Pillsworth, Elizabeth G.
Professor of Anthropology
Anthropology
Biography:
Elizabeth Pillsworth earned her Ph.D. in evolutionary anthropology from UCLA in 2008 and maintains with an active research program in human reproductive ecology. Research questions include patterns of mate preferences, mate choice, sexuality, gender, romantic love, and reproduction. Research projects include studies with U.S. populations and 15 years of fieldwork with an indigenous hunter-horticultural population in Amazonian Ecuador.
Areas of Knowledge:
- Human reproductive ecology
- Evolutionary psychology
- Mate choice
- Shuar (Indigenous Amazonian population)
- Ovulation studies
Subject(s):
- Anthropology
- Culture -- Diversity
- Evolution
- Gender Studies
- Love
- Sexuality
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