Amanda Seed is currently a lecturer at the school of Psychology, University of St. Andrews, Scotland. Her research aims to address the evolutionary origins of conceptual thought and causal knowledge by combining developmental and comparative studies of physical problemsolving. Currently she is studying the causal knowledge for objects and events in apes and developing children. Furthermore, together with Prof. Nicky Clayton and Dr. Nathan Emery at the University of Cambridge and Queen Mary University she studies the convergent evolution of flexible problem-solving in corvids and apes. The underlying question motivating her research is to uncover the evolutionary changes in representational and executive processes that marked the origins of uniquely human thinking.