Natalie Uomini

Natalie Uomini is a Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Department of Linguistic and Cultural Evolution. She specializes in Paleocognition and primate laterality. She holds a BA in Cognitive Science and Linguistics (University of California, San Diego, 1999), a Master's in Language Sciences (University of Grenoble, 2000), and an M.Sc. in Biological Anthropology (University of Durham, 2001). She earned her PhD from the Centre for the Archaeology of Human Origins at the University of Southampton and went on to hold two prestigious postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Liverpool, funded by the British Academy Centenary Project "Lucy to Language: the Archaeology of the Social Brain" and the Leverhulme Trust. She is interested in the evolutionary origins of right- and left-handedness, language, and mind. Her work combines primatology with anthropology to study the evolution of cognitive skills in hominids before 400,000 years ago.