Kit Opie
Contact details
Telephone: 01865 612379
Email: kit.opie@anthro.ox.ac.uk
http://oxford.academia.edu/KitOpie
Research topic
Early Homo (Homo erectus) social organisation. The research uses modelling techniques to investigate the nature of early human social structures based on primate and modern hunter-gatherer behaviour.
Current research project
The klipspringer (Oreotragus oreotragus) pair bond. The research focuses on an understanding of the nature of the pair bond and the ecological factors that maintain such a social system in small monogamous African antelopes.
Biography
Kit Opie is a DPhil student, supervised by Professor Robin Dunbar, at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford. He holds a BA in Economics from Sussex University and an MSc in Human Evolution and Behaviour from University College London.
Publication:
Opie, K., and C. Power, 2008. Grandmothering and Female Coalitions: A Basis for Matrilineal Priority? In Early Human Kinship: From Sex to Social Reproduction. N. J. Allen, H. Callan, R. I. M. Dunbar and W. James (eds.) Oxford: Blackwell
