Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies: Sonja E. Koski.

Chimpanzee social cognition.

Research Interests: cognition, communication and primate social networks.

Contact details:
Address:
the Whitehouse, app. 10
1 Counduit Head Road
CB3 OEY Cambridge, UK.

Email: koski.sonja@gmail.com

Biography:
I obtained my Master’s degree in biology at the Helsinki University, Finland, 2000 majoring in animal behaviour and population ecology. I started my PhD in April 2002 in Utrecht on chimpanzee conflict management. I am interested in conflict management as an implication of social intelligence. I investigate how chimpanzees employ their knowledge on relationships in their decision making in the aftermath of conflicts. The observational work is conducted in the Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem.

PhD Thesis: Chimpanzees, conflicts, and cognition. Functions and mechanisms of chimpanzee conflict resolution. Utrecht, 2007.

Sonja E. Koski, PhD

Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies,
Dept. of Biological Anthropology
University of Cambridge, UK

Centre of Excellence in Evolutionary Studies,
Dept. of Biological and Environmental Studies
University of Jyvaskyla, FI

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