Results for "evolution"

Projects

Kinematics of Quadrupedal Locomotion in Free-Ranging Primates

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The majority of primate species are partially or completely tree-dwelling (arboreal), and they often captivate observers with their ability to walk, run, and leap with ease along narrow, steep, and bending branches.…

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…

Faculty

Aaron G Sandel

Affiliated Departments:
College of Liberal Arts, Anthropology
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Dr. Aaron Sandel studies chimpanzee behavior and physiology in Uganda. Dr. Sandel's broad research interests include primate social behavior, friendship, life history, growth, and how natural selection shapes…

Sahotra Sarkar

Affiliated Departments:
Philosophy, School of Biological Sciences, Integrative Biology, Statistics and Scientific Computation
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Selection and design of biodiversity reserves and other conservation areas; mathematical ecology; disease ecology and epidemiology; history and philosophy of science; environmental ethics, Kant

Liza J Shapiro

Affiliated Departments:
Anthropology
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Functional morphology and evolution of primate locomotion

Scott Stevens

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, Chemistry and Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
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Processing and metabolism of RNA in eukaryotes.
Dr. Steven's laboratory is interested in the structure and function of ribonucleoproteins, in particular, the small nuclear ribonucleoproteins (snRNPs)…

Claus Wilke

Affiliated Departments:
School of Biological Sciences, Integrative Biology, Statistics and Scientific Computation
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Dr. Wilke works in the areas of computational and theoretical biology. HIs research can be broadly subdivided into three areas: (1) molecular evolution, (2) evolution of RNA viruses, (3) theoretical population…

Kenneth R Young

Affiliated Departments:
Geography / Environment, Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies
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Dr. Kenneth Young does policy-relevant research that informs biodiversity conservation and sustainable development. He does this by linking biogeography and landscape ecology to questions of ecosystem dynamics and…