Mason Youngblood

Mason is a PhD candidate in Animal Behavior and Comparative Psychology at the City University of New York, and an incoming postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History. His research is focused on cultural evolution in both human and animals, including studies on birdsong, metascience, music, and extremism. Specifically, Mason uses computational methods like agent-based modeling and machine learning to better understand how mechanisms of cultural transmission affect larger patterns in the cultural evolution of populations.