So who are the hunter-gatherer team going to explore the depths of the Philippines? Well as you're asking....
Mark
Mark is on of three PhD students conducting research in the Philippines. In his spare time Mark enjoys hunting, honey collecting and spear fishing - lucky for him then he gets to study this for the next year. He has spent time digging up paleo-aged objects in the Turkana basin, but is now interested in the evolution of cooperation and food sharing in the Agta.
Dan
Rodolph
Andrea
Philip
Rodolph Schlaepfer
Mark
Mark is on of three PhD students conducting research in the Philippines. In his spare time Mark enjoys hunting, honey collecting and spear fishing - lucky for him then he gets to study this for the next year. He has spent time digging up paleo-aged objects in the Turkana basin, but is now interested in the evolution of cooperation and food sharing in the Agta.
Dan, also a PhD student, is coming to the Philippines to study the evolution of egalitarianism. Alongside his interest in Homo sapiens, Dan can't wait to get out and meet all the diverse array of wildlife the Philippines has to offer, particularly the San Marino crocodile...
Katie
Katie is the newest member of the Filipino Hunter-gatherer team. Her research is focused on the relationship between the Agta and the National Park in which they live. As Katie comes from a conservationist background she will be joining Dan on all his jaunts into the jungle, maybe discovering a new species for western science...
Rodolph
Rudy has been exploring the use of participatory filming and participatory mapping with the Agta community to understand conflicts between local tribes, government, conservation and economic initiatives. He produced a range of wonderful videos and photography which can be viewed on his personal website.
Andrea
Andrea is the lead investigator of the Hunter-gatherer project and my supervisor! She has been working in the Philippines and with different hunter-gatherer populations worldwide for many years. For more information on her research about the evolution of human body size see her UCL website.
Philip is about the come to on his third fieldwork trip (so probably the most experienced of us all)to the Philippines, and has been working hard on Agta Aid so he can bring the Agta children books and other educational materials. Philip also has kick-arse presentation skills, demonstrated in this Agta Aid video!
And of course you can find more info about the Hunter-gatherer resilience project and about Wallace and I on the about us page of the Wasabi on the go blog.
Rodolph Schlaepfer
