Browsing by Affiliation of Duke Author(s) "Evolutionary Anthropology"
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100 years of primate paleontology.
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A baseline paleoecological study for the Santa Cruz Formation (late–early Miocene) at the Atlantic coast of Patagonia, Argentina
(Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 2010-06)Coastal exposures of the Santa Cruz Formation (late-early Miocene, southern Patagonia, Argentina) between the Coyle and Gallegos rivers have been a fertile ground for recovery of Miocene vertebrates for more than 100 years. ... -
A comparative analysis of egg provisioning using mass spectrometry during rapid life history evolution in sea urchins.
(Evolution & development, 2019-05-17)A dramatic life history switch that has evolved numerous times in marine invertebrates is the transition from planktotrophic (feeding) to lecithotrophic (nonfeeding) larval development-an evolutionary tradeoff with many ... -
A comparison of activity patterns for captive Propithecus tattersalli and Propithecus coquereli.
(Zoo Biol, 2016-03)The activity patterns and social interactions of two species of captive sifaka were observed during a 2-year period. Allogrooming was not observed in golden-crowned sifaka and they spent significantly more time resting than ... -
A comparison of temperament in nonhuman apes and human infants.
(Dev Sci, 2011-11)The adaptive behavior of primates, including humans, is often mediated by temperament. Human behavior likely differs from that of other primates in part due to temperament. In the current study we compared the reaction of ... -
A coprological survey of parasites of wild mantled howling monkeys, Alouatta palliata palliata.
(J Wildl Dis, 1990-10)Fecal samples from 155 mantled howling monkeys (Alouatta palliata palliata) examined at Centro Ecologico La Pacifica, Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, revealed 75 (48%) had parasitic infections. A sampling of nine howling ... -
A critical comment on the ‘multiple variance Brownian motion’ model of Smaers et al. (2016)
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A diminutive Pliocene guenon from Kanapoi, West Turkana, Kenya.
(Journal of human evolution, 2019-10)Although modern guenons are diverse and abundant in Africa, the fossil record of this group is surprisingly sparse. In 2012 the West Turkana Paleo Project team recovered two associated molar teeth of a small primate from ... -
A fruit in the hand or two in the bush? Divergent risk preferences in chimpanzees and bonobos.
(Biol Lett, 2008-06-23)Human and non-human animals tend to avoid risky prospects. If such patterns of economic choice are adaptive, risk preferences should reflect the typical decision-making environments faced by organisms. However, this approach ... -
A new fully automated approach for aligning and comparing shapes.
(Anatomical record (Hoboken, N.J. : 2007), 2015-01)Three-dimensional geometric morphometric (3DGM) methods for placing landmarks on digitized bones have become increasingly sophisticated in the last 20 years, including greater degrees of automation. One aspect shared by ... -
A pilot study of genetic and morphological variation in the muriqui (Brachyteles arachnoides)
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A pipeline to determine RT-QPCR control genes for evolutionary studies: Application to primate gene expression across multiple tissues
(PLoS ONE, 2010)Because many species-specific phenotypic differences are assumed to be caused by differential regulation of gene expression, many recent investigations have focused on measuring transcript abundance. Despite the availability ... -
A test of the submentalizing hypothesis: Apes' performance in a false belief task inanimate control.
(Commun Integr Biol, 2017)Much debate concerns whether any nonhuman animals share with humans the ability to infer others' mental states, such as desires and beliefs. In a recent eye-tracking false-belief task, we showed that great apes correctly ... -
Adaptive wear-based changes in dental topography associated with atelid (Mammalia: Primates) diets
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Additional Vertebrate Remains from the Early Miocene of Kutch, Gujarat
(Special Publication of the Paleontological Society of India, 2014) -
Alouatta palliata
(Costa Rican Natural History, 1983) -
An assessment of skin temperature gradients in a tropical primate using infrared thermography and subcutaneous implants.
(J Therm Biol, 2017-01)Infrared thermography has become a useful tool to assess surface temperatures of animals for thermoregulatory research. However, surface temperatures are an endpoint along the body's core-shell temperature gradient. Skin ... -
An exceptionally well-preserved skeleton of Palaeothentes from the Early Miocene of Patagonia, Argentina: new insights into the anatomy of extinct paucituberculatan marsupials
(Swiss Journal of Palaeontology, 2014-07)© 2014, Akademie der Naturwissenschaften Schweiz (SCNAT). During the Cenozoic paucituberculatans were much more diverse taxonomically and ecomorphologically than the three extant genera of shrew-like marsupials. ... -
An improved approach to age-modeling in deep time: Implications for the Santa Cruz Formation, Argentina
(Bulletin of the Geological Society of America, 2020-01-01)© 2019 Geological Society of America. Accurate age-depth models for proxy records are crucial for inferring changes to the environment through space and time, yet traditional methods of constructing these models ... -
Analysis of the Early-Middle Miocene mammal associations at the Río Santa Cruz (Patagonia, Argentina)
(Publicacion Electronica de la Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina, 2019-01-01)© 2019 Asociacion Paleontologica Argentina. All rights reserved. The Santa Cruz Formation (SCF) records high latitude terrestrial paleoecosystems in the Southern Hemisphere during Burdigalian-early Langhian times (Early-Middle ...
