Emerson Arehart joined the Levin Lab in the Fall of 2024.  He will hold a split position between the Levin Lab and the Akçay/Plotkin labs at the University of Pennsylvania.

He received his Ph.D. in 2021 from the University of Utah (advised by Fred Adler), where he studied the fitness effects of learning and decision-making in foragers experiencing changing environments.

He is currently extending approaches from behavioral ecology and collective decision-making and applying them to social and cultural evolution in humans.  In particular, he is interested in human decision making related to land use change and conservation.  He also works on integrating scientific machine learning into the scientific discovery process.