Evolutionary Anthropology

Co-led by Duke's Susan Alberts, the Amboseli Baboon Project is one of the longest-running studies of wild primates in the world, ongoing since 1971. Photo by Chelsea Weibel, University of Notre Dame.

March 7, 2022

How Baboons Keep Healthy Family Boundaries

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Herman Pontzer rock climbing

January 25, 2022

To Save Energy in Extreme Situations, Go Faster

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A group of Hadza women share a meal of roasted tubers. Food sharing allows them to spend more energy to find food, knowing they won’t starve if they return to camp empty-handed. (Photo – Herman Pontzer)

January 13, 2022

Risky Food-Finding Strategy Could be the Key to Human Success

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New research finds that testosterone-fueled aggression by the matriarch is a crucial part in the evolution of cooperation in meerkat societies. Photo: Charli Davies

January 5, 2022

Cooperation Has a Dark Side, and Meerkats Are Helping Us See It

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students test puppies in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten

November 29, 2021

The Science of Puppy Kindergarten

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Alma Solis presenting her research as a National Institutes of Health Postbaccalaureate Intramural Research Training Award Fellow at the NIH campus in Bethesda, Md.

November 19, 2021

An Unusual Path to a Ph.D. Program to Study Health Disparities

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lemur at Lemur Center

November 18, 2021

A new treatment is helping lemurs resolve gut ailments. It's gross.

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Based on the small size of Leti’s skull and on the combination of baby teeth and unerupted adult teeth, researchers estimate that the Homo naledi child would have been 4-6 years old.

November 8, 2021

250,000-Year-Old Child Adds to the Mystery of Our Human Origins

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DNA research using ancient human remains, such as those unearthed in Cameroon, has expanded rapidly since the 2000s. Photo by Isabelle Ribot, January 1994

October 22, 2021

Global Experts Propose Ethical Guidelines for DNA Research on Ancient Human Remains

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Fossils of the key groups used to unveil the Eocene-Oligocene extinction in Africa with primates on the left, the carnivorous hyaenodont, upper right, rodent, lower right. These fossils are from the Fayum Depression in Egypt. (Matt Borths)

October 7, 2021

The Climate-Driven Mass Extinction No One Had Seen

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New research predicts that the loss of 108 threatened primates could doom an additional 176 parasite species to extinction, because they have no other suitable hosts. Courtesy of Marie-Claire Chelini and TriCEM

September 23, 2021

If Endangered Primates Disappear, So Will Their Parasites. That’s Actually a Problem

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Research scientists Marina Blanco, Ph.D. and Lydia Greene,

September 23, 2021

Why Do You Study That? How Lemur Research Can Help Endangered Species

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puppies at a class photo shoot at the Canine Cognition Center.

September 15, 2021

They're Puppies Now, But They're the Service Dogs of the Future

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chimpanzees on a march

August 26, 2021

Even Chimpanzees Need a Wingman

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Hobbit GIF

August 20, 2021

The Hobbit’s Bite Gets a Stress Test

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If you’ve never had a problem keeping lean and burning calories before, and now you’re gaining weight, you’re not alone. Dolphin metabolisms slow down with age, too. Credit: Dolphin Research Center, https://dolphins.org/

August 12, 2021

Dolphins Get 40s Flab, Too

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