Deborah Rogers

Hi. I'm a third-year PhD student in the Marcus Feldman Lab in Stanford's Dept. of Biological Sciences. Academically, I'm interested in the interface between cultural and biological evolution; for example, does natural selection affect cultural change? how does culture, in turn, alter the selective environment? The BIG question behind all this is: how did we humans get ourselves into the mess we're in, and how we can get back out? My current obsessions include socioeconomic hierarchy, globalization, the politics of NGOs, concepts of race & ethnicity, and how to foster needed cultural evolution. Oh, and learning to *salsa* and speak Spanish. (I'm definitely up for the dance self-organization Lee Altenberg suggested.)