Aaron P. Blaisdell

Aaron P. Blaisdell earned his BA and MA in biological anthropology, and his Ph.D. in behavioral neuroscience. He is currently an Associate Professor of Psychology at UCLA where he studies learning and cognition in rats, pigeons, and hermit crabs (http://pigeonrat.psych.ucla.edu). He also founded the Ancestral Health Society in 2011 with the mission of understanding human health and disease from the perspective of human evolution and the human ecological niche.