Assistant Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York, where he runs a Behavior & Evolution laboratory focusing on the evolution of complex traits such as learned behavior in birds and humans. Lahti received a B.S. in biology and history from Gordon College, a Ph.D. in moral philosophy and the philosophy of biology at the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan. He has been a Darwin Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and a Kirschstein NRSA Research Fellow with the U.S.
Assistant Professor of Biology at Queens College, City University of New York, where he runs a Behavior & Evolution laboratory focusing on the evolution of complex traits such as learned behavior in birds and humans. Lahti received a B.S. in biology and history from Gordon College, a Ph.D. in moral philosophy and the philosophy of biology at the Whitefield Institute, Oxford, and a Ph.D. in ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Michigan. He has been a Darwin Fellow at the University of Massachusetts and a Kirschstein NRSA Research Fellow with the U.S. National Institutes of Health. Current research projects in Lahti's lab include the effects of relaxed natural selection; the predictability of trait evolution; the genetic and cultural divergence of vocal signals; and the correlated cultural evolution of social organization, morality, and religion.