Results for "evolution"

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Animal Adolescence

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What is adolescence and what animals have it?

People have been studying primates in the wild for a good portion of the last century. Now there is a lot of information out there, giving…

Evolution of vocalization in singing mice

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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its neural, genetic and molecular mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. Using “exotic” rodent models, we focus on the nature and consequences of…

Evolutionary variation in genes, brains and behaviors

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The Phelps lab is broadly interested in animal social behavior, its brain mechanisms, and how those mechanisms evolve. We do a variety of work ranging from mechanisms of gene regulation to the fitness consequences of…

Evolution of a Social Decision-Making Network

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We have reconstructed the evolution of a neural social decision-making network across vertebrates and found that gene expression profiles in these behaviorally relevant brain regions are remarkably conserved. Our…