Evolutionary Anthropology

dog sitting in a Bailey chair to eat

November 18, 2022

Why Some Dogs Have to Sit in a Chair to Eat

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Ph.D. candidate Caroline Shearer (right) and one of her undergraduate students observe a ring-tailed lemur at the Duke Lemur Center.

November 10, 2022

Duke's iconic primates help Caroline Shearer teach students how to ask, and answer, research questions

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snake vertebrae

October 20, 2022

How to 3D Print the Fossils of the Great Museums of the World

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Madeline, Neely, Nancy and Maestro, The newest students in the Duke Puppy Kindergarten.

September 22, 2022

Waiting to Serve: Duke Puppy Kindergarten Students Promote the Value of Service Dogs

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The interdisciplinary team of researchers aims to understand what factors turn a local outbreak into a global pandemic by focusing on human connections at a local, regional and global scales. (Nunn et al.)

August 25, 2022

Duke Team Awarded $1 Million to Predict the Next Pandemic

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The vast majority of baboons in Kenya’s Amboseli basin carry genes from a closely related species, finds a new study in the journal Science. Credit: Arielle Fogel, Duke University.

August 2, 2022

These Baboons Borrowed a Third of Their Genes From Their Cousins

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The Duke Puppy Kindergarten's spring 2022 class

April 14, 2022

My, How They've Grown

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Huggins

April 14, 2022

Kinsie Huggins: The Future Doctor Who Can Shot-Put

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April 13, 2022

Something So Magnificent

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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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