I am a data scientist, specializing in the analysis of large hierarchical datasets.
I specialize in the design, implementation and general management of research projects from inception to publication
I have published more than 25 first author papers in high impact interdisciplinary scientific journals including Nature Communications, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Nature Human Behaviour and Proceedings B and have taught multiple college courses
Dr. Lynch’s work spans a diverse range of topics, often focusing on life history theory, social dynamics, and human evolutionary behavior. Key findings and research areas include:
Religion and Social Networks: Showing that more religious women may have larger and more kin-dense social networks in areas undergoing rapid market integration, and that religiosity may increase emotional closeness among relatives.
The Evolutionary Impact of Stress: Confirmation of a key prediction of life history theory—that children exposed to stress and higher mortality (in this case, World War II paramilitary volunteers) may expedite their reproductive schedules and have higher lifetime reproductive success.
Kinship and Marriage: Providing evidence that parent-offspring conflict may be a key factor in the widespread practice of cross-cousin marriage. He has also investigated how maternal and paternal grandmothers differentially affect the life history traits of their grandchildren.
Social Capital and Populism: Empirically connecting declining measures of social capital and deteriorating social networks with the rise of populism in the 2016 United States presidential elections.
I am a bio cultural anthropologist, specializing in how biology, the environment and culture come together
to shape health and behavior
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