Susan C. Alberts

Dataset · May 15, 2023 Harsh early life environments are linked to a variety of negative outcomes in humans and non-human primates, including poor survival in adulthood. Understanding the pathways that drive the relationship between early life adversity and reduced survival is k ... Full text Cite

Data from: Early life adversity and adult social relationships have independent effects on survival in a wild primate

Dataset · February 15, 2023 Adverse conditions in early life can have profound negative consequences for adult health and survival in humans and other animals. How does early adversity exert its influence on adult outcomes, and what variables mediate this relationship? Adult social e ... Full text Cite

Data from: Early life drought predicts components of adult body size in wild female baboons

Dataset · December 6, 2022 Across taxa, adverse early-life environments such as drought and psychosocial stress are associated with reduced growth and smaller body size in adulthood. However, in wild primates, we know very little about whether and to what extent individuals grow pla ... Full text Cite

Data from: Mechanisms of inbreeding avoidance in a wild primate

Dataset · January 18, 2022 Inbreeding often imposes net fitness costs, leading to the expectation that animals will engage in inbreeding avoidance when the costs of doing so are not prohibitive. However, one recent meta-analysis indicates that animals of many species do not avoid ma ... Full text Cite

Data from: Genetic ancestry predicts male-female affiliation in a natural baboon hybrid zone

Dataset · June 3, 2021 Opposite-sex social relationships are important predictors of fitness in many animals, including several group-living mammals. Consequently, understanding sources of variance in the tendency to form opposite-sex relationships is important for understanding ... Full text Cite

Data from: Better baboon breakups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions

Dataset · May 19, 2021 Many social groups are made up of complex social networks in which each individual tends to associate with a distinct subset of its groupmates. If social groups increase in size over time, competition often leads to permanent group fission. During such fis ... Full text Cite

Data from: Beyond orphaned infants: novel effects of maternal death in wild primates

Dataset · October 26, 2020 Primate offspring often depend on their mothers well beyond the age of weaning, and offspring that experience maternal death in early life can suffer substantial reductions in fitness across the lifespan. Here we leverage data from eight wild primate popul ... Full text Cite