Head of the Center of Cross-Cultural Psychology and Human Ethology, Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology; principal researcher and professor of the International Center of Anthropology, Higher School of Economics

Professor, corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Dr. Hist. (1994, in physical anthropology); Cand. Hist. (1986, in physical anthropology); Department of Anthropology, Faculty of Biology, Moscow State University (1982). Professor of Culturology (2004). Scholarly interests: evolutionary anthropology (human adaptation, sexual dimorphism and reproductive strategies), human ethology (biosocial bases of aggression and post-conflict behavior among humans and primates, cooperation and altruism, choice of sex partner), African studies (hunters-gatherers and cattle herders of the East Africa). Member of the International Society for Research on Aggression, International Society for Human Ethology, and European Anthropological Association. Author over 300 works including 8 books.