Biography
I completed my PhD in 2009: ‘Genomic imprinting and human cognition: parent-of-origin effects on behaviour’, at Cambridge in the Dept of Biological Anthropology.
Research
My particular interests are gene-environment interaction (especially epigenetics), evolutionary psychology and behavioural ecology (especially in the contexts of social cognition and the anthropology of the family).
Key Publications
Ragsdale, G. Epigenetic pathways from dietary fat to psychopathology, In: Vaschetto, L. M. ed. Molecular Mechanisms in Nutritional Epigenetics, Springer International Publishing, In press.
Ragsdale, G. and Foley, R. A. 2022. Epigenetic adaptation to local ecologies as a first step toward cultural differentiation, Epigenetics, Evolution and Development, In: Vaschetto, L. M. ed. Epigenetics, Development, Ecology and Evolution, Springer International Publishing, pp. 215-232.
Ragsdale, G. and Foley, R. A. 2018. Epigenetic influences on the evolution of human social cognition, In: di Paolo, L. D. di Vincenzo, F. and Almeida, A. eds. Evolution of Primate Cognition Springer International Publishing, pp. 163-179.
Ragsdale, G. and Foley, R. A. 2012. Testing the imprinted brain: parent-of-origin effects on empathy and systemising. Evolution and Human Behaviour 33 (4): 402-410.
Ragsdale, G. and Foley, R. A. 2011. A maternal influence on Theory of Mind mediated by executive function: differential parental influences on full and half-siblings. PLoS One 6 (8) published online 05 August 2011 (DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0023236).
Fox, M., Sear, R., Beise, J., Ragsdale, G., Eckart, V. and Knapp, L. A. 2010. Grandma plays favourites: X-chromosome relatedness and sex-specific childhood mortality. Proceedings of the Royal Society, Series B 22 (177): 567-573.
Goos, L. M. and Ragsdale, G. 2007. ‘The influence of genomic imprinting on human cognition and behavior.’ In: J. Wilkins (ed) Genomic Imprinting New York: Landes Bioscience, pp. 71-88.
Ragsdale, G. 2004. Grandmothering in Cambridgeshire, 1770-1861, Human Nature 15 (3): 301-317.
Teaching and Supervisions
Human Evolutionary Studies
