Research
THE ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION OF SOCIAL INTERDEPENDENCE
In my postdoctoral research, I am quantifying social network structure and identifying its drivers in baboons and other papionin primates — a group that has long been promoted as a useful model for human evolution and forms social groups that vary in their shape and size. By combining rich long-term behavioral data, cutting-edge social network analyses, and phylogenetic comparative methods, this project will pinpoint the factors underlying this variation.
SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC ROUTES TOWARDS REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN GELADAS
For my dissertation, I analyzed data from a population of wild gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) in the Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia, where research has been ongoing since 2006. In this work, I (1) identified the social drivers of maturation age, (2) documented the social precursors and fitness outcomes of unit fission, and (3) linked maternal social integration with offspring survival outcomes.
In my postdoctoral research, I am quantifying social network structure and identifying its drivers in baboons and other papionin primates — a group that has long been promoted as a useful model for human evolution and forms social groups that vary in their shape and size. By combining rich long-term behavioral data, cutting-edge social network analyses, and phylogenetic comparative methods, this project will pinpoint the factors underlying this variation.
SOCIAL AND DEMOGRAPHIC ROUTES TOWARDS REPRODUCTIVE SUCCESS IN GELADAS
For my dissertation, I analyzed data from a population of wild gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) in the Simien Mountains National Park in Ethiopia, where research has been ongoing since 2006. In this work, I (1) identified the social drivers of maturation age, (2) documented the social precursors and fitness outcomes of unit fission, and (3) linked maternal social integration with offspring survival outcomes.
