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Published her book 'A Field Guide to the Apocalypse: A Mostly Serious Guide to Surviving Our Wild Times', exploring cooperation and resilience.
Published her book 'The Cheating Cell: How Evolution Helps Us Understand and Treat Cancer', which frames cancer as a breakdown of multicellular cooperation.
Joined the Department of Psychology at Arizona State University, where she later became an associate professor and established the Cooperation and Conflict Lab.
Co-founded the Center for Evolution and Cancer at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) and served as its Director of Human and Social Evolution.
Earned a Ph.D. in Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, with doctoral research focused on computational models of the evolution of cooperation.