Tamás Dávid-Barrett is a behavioural scientist, who asks what traits allow humans to live in large and culturally complex societies. His work focuses on the Structural Microfoundations Theory about how the structure of social networks change during falling fertility, urbanisation, and migration; as well as, how social networks vary over the human life-course. Tamás’s current projects include the origins of inequality regulation; why the behavioural rules between women and men vary so much across cultures, see Gendered Species: A Natural History of Patriarchy; and the evolutionary foundations of sharing behaviour.
Tamás teaches Trinity College, University of Oxford in the United Kingdom, and is affiliated with the Population Studies Research Institute in Helsinki, Finland. He is a fellow of the Royal Anthropological Institute. Parallel to his Oxford existence, previously Tamás was also a professor at UDD in Chile, and a visiting scientist at the Kiel Institute in Germany. Before becoming an academic, he ran a macroeconomic analyst company, and did research in 35 countries all around the world.
