Mihaela Pavlicev

I am evolutionary biologist interested in how developmental structure affects the way the evolution changes traits, and results in a diversity that we see across species. In the recent years, my research has focused on explaining the evolutionary history of human female sexual traits- mostly reproductive traits involved in pregnancy, but not limited to these, such as menstruation and female orgasm. Understanding the evolutionary history of these traits will help us understand their developmental basis, as well as how they function, and why they sometimes malfunction the way they do.

November 2016