Kiran Basava

• Master of Science
• PhD Student at University of Oxford

Socially transmitted behaviors are widespread across the animal kingdom, yet comprehensive datasets documenting their distribution and ecological significance remain scarce. Additionally, knowledge of animal behavioral traditions could be essential for understanding many species' responses to anthropogenic disturbances and further enhancing conserv...

Extant coleoid cephalopods include over 800 species of octopuses, squid, and cuttlefish, which have drawn scientific and public interest for their complex behavior and cognition. Of these, approximately 10% (79) species have adult specimens with recorded measures of central nervous system size distributed across various sources. Here, we use a comb...

Beliefs about the fate of humanity and the soul after death may structure behaviours of religious groups. Here we test theories from religious studies: that belief in an imminent apocalypse co-evolved with and facilitated revolutionary violence, whereas belief in reincarnation caused people to acquiesce to existing social orders and withdraw from p...

This report describes the current canonical time-series dataset named “Equinox2020,” a subset of Seshat: Global History Databank data for a well-curated list of polities and variables available on the Seshat Data Browser. The report provides an introduction to the methods and procedures of the Seshat project relating to the curation and release of...