Male-male competition and reproduction in wild blue monkeys
Su-Jen Roberts, PhD candidate from Columbia University, was awarded a research grant in spring of 2012 for her project to assess what variables drive variance in reproductive success in wild blue monkeys.
From the Field: Oliver Paine, Cradle Nature Reserve, South Africa
Recent studies have suggested that C4 plants played a larger role in early hominin diets than previously believed, thus making a systematic effort to determine the costs and benefits of C4 plants for hominin consumption that much more important in helping to model early hominin dietary behavior.
The following is a short update from Leakey Foundation spring 2014 grantee Oliver
From the Field: E.A. Quinn, Nubri, Nepal
Leakey Foundation grantee E.A. Quinn of Washington University sent this video field report from her research in Nubri, Nepal. Her project investigates the associations between adaptation to a high altitude environment, mother’s milk, and infant growth. It was filmed by her colleague Geoff Childs.
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Research Report: Dynamics of population growth by Cebus capucinus in Costa Rica
The population of white-faced capuchin monkeys (Cebus capucinus) in the Sector Santa Rosa (SSR) of the Area de Conservación Guanacaste in northwestern Costa Rica offers a unique opportunity to model how landscape variability affected selection on early hominins. This species shows many anatomical and behavioral convergences with great apes and humans, and they thrive in a broad range of environmental
Ta ̈ı chimpanzees anticipate revisiting high-valued fruit trees from further distances
Baldwin Fellow Simone Dagui Ban is a PhD student from the Félix Houphouët Boigny University in Côte d’Ivoire. Following the 2010-11 election crisis that made studying in her home country impossible, Ban was given the opportunity to study at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology for one year. She was awarded her first Franklin Mosher Baldwin Memorial Fellowship in