Zaneta Thayer on Discrimination, Stress, and Health
This month's featured video is from biological anthropologist Zaneta Thayer of Dartmouth College. Her 2017 talk at the American Museum of Natural History addresses how trauma, poverty, and racial discrimination create health inequalities.
Social Insecurity Stresses Chimpanzees
New research funded in part by The Leakey Foundation shows that male chimpanzees adjust their competitive behaviors when social relationships in their group are unstable.
Baboons and the Link Between Social Status and Health
A growing body of evidence shows that those at the bottom of the socioeconomic ladder are more likely to die prematurely than those at the top. The pattern isn't unique to humans – across many social animals, the lower an individual's social status, the worse its health.
Grantee Spotlight: Katharine Burke
Katharine Burke is a PhD candidate from the University at Buffalo. In the spring of 2016 she was awarded a Leakey Foundation research grant for her project entitled “Social network, personality and physiological stress levels in juvenile rhesus.” Here she has provided us with a summary of her work.
Katharine Burke
I am investigating possible links between social support, personality
Grantee Spotlight: Erica Dunayer
Erica Dunayer was awarded a Leakey Foundation Research Grant for her project entitled "Influence of stress for market exchanges in Cayo Santiago macaques."