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Ashle Bailey-Gilreath
Ashle holds a Master’s degree in Cognition and Culture from the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University Belfast. She currently works as a Research Assistant at the Institute of Cognitive and Evolutionary Anthropology at the University of Oxford and is the Web and Social Media Coordinator for the Evolution Institute and This View of Life Magazine. Her research interests broadly include ritual, identity, human cooperation and conflict, international relations, and human rights.
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