Our research strengths are in behavioural ecology, cognition, comparative and evolutionary psychology, the philosophy of science, and prehistoric archaeology. We examine a range of evolutionarily relevant phenomena such as social and antisocial behavior, reproductive and non-conceptive sexuality, parasite-host interactions, spatial navigation, play behaviour, feeding ecology, communication and language, cultural evolution, taphonomic processes, evolutionary ethics, and game theory. BERG members study a wide variety of species including baboons, black-capped chickadees, Caribbean reef squid, degus, fathead minnows, field crickets, flamingos, humans, Japanese macaques, laboratory rats, lowland gorillas, mule deer, octopus, red squirrels, rufous humming birds, Richardson's ground squirrels, spider monkeys, Tonkean macaques, black bellied wrens, Madagascar hissing cockroaches, crows and whitetail deer. Research is conducted in offices and laboratories at the University of Lethbridge and at various field sites in Alberta, Belgium, Bonaire, France, Independent Samoa, Israel, Japan, South Africa, Panama and Texas. Most of our members hold grants from such major federal funding agencies such as the Natural Sciences and Engineering Council of Canada (NSERC) or the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC). Potential graduate students are encouraged to contact us via email to learn more about our work and graduate research opportunities in the Departments of Biological Sciences, Psychology, Neuroscience, Geography and Philosophy.

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Please contact Paul Vasey for information on Graduate Studies in Psychology.