Rachna Reddy is a Mind Brain Behavior Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology. She received her BA in Evolutionary Anthropology from Duke University in 2012 and her PhD in Anthropology from the University of Michigan in 2020. She studies social relationships - their emotional and cognitive underpinnings, their evolutionary function, and how they change over time and at the boundaries of social life. Her past research focuses on the behavior of wild chimpanzees at Ngogo in Kibale National Park Uganda. As part of the Pan Lab, she will investigate how bonobo and chimpanzee adolescents navigate social and emotional challenges unique to the societies in which they grow up. Rachna also conducts experimental research investigating social cognition in nonhuman primates and young children.