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CHES Graduate Affiliate Alex Pritchard was awarded a major grant from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research to support the study of olive baboons (Papio anubis) that he is currently conducting in Kenya. The title of this research is "Variation of Stress Coping: Life in a Socially Complex World”. More details about Alex's research can be found at the CHES webpage for the Albert Fellows Dissertation Award. Congratulations, Alex!
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Last night was the first of this academic year’s “Featured Research Evenings”, which showcased the work of Dr. Jin Xing, Associate Professor of Genetics here at Rutgers. Jin discussed how the significantly declining costs of genome sequencing is facilitating many new research opportunities, such as clarifying phylogenies (evolutionary trees), the action of natural selection to produce adaptation, and population-level phenomena (such as disease occurrence, divergence times, the nature of extinct ancestors). One of the projects in which Jin has been involved recently is examining genetic diversity in the genus Macaca, which comprises more than 20 species of macaque monkeys in Asia and north Africa. The research has greatly improved our understanding of the genetic diversity and evolution of this group of primates as well as general principles of evolution. It was a very rewarding discussion, one consequence of which was generating ideas for some new lines of research (and teaching) for some of the other CHES members present.
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Briana Pobiner, who obtained her PhD in Anthropology here at Rutgers in 2007 (with the dissertation "Hominin-Carnivore Interactions: Evidence From Modern Carnivore Bone Modification and Early Pleistocene Archaeofaunas [Koobi Fora, Kenya; Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania]") returned on October 12 to give a CHES lecture. Dr. Pobiner is the Science Outreach & Education Program Specialist at the Smithsonian Institution, and she continues her field research on human evolution in Africa.
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At this year's NorthEastern Evolutionary Primatology (NEEP) conference (http://www.neevolprimatol.org) in Canisius College, New York, our CHES Grad Affiliates Will Aguado and Dominique Raboin won the awards for best podium presentation and runner up best podium presentation, respectively. Congrats!
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The research of CHES graduate affiliate and recent PhD Marieke Janiak was recently featured in a very informative article on the site Massive. Read more about her work here. https://massivesci.com/articles/eating-bugs-digestion-evolution-primates/