Current Appointments & Affiliations
Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology
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2024 - Present
Evolutionary Anthropology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Associate Professor of Biology
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2018 - Present
Biology,
Trinity College of Arts & Sciences
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Population Research Center
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2010 - Present
Duke Population Research Center,
Duke Population Research Institute
Faculty Research Scholar of DuPRI's Center for Population Health & Aging
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2011 - Present
Center for Population Health & Aging,
Duke Population Research Institute
Faculty Network Member of the Duke Institute for Brain Sciences
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2012 - Present
Duke Institute for Brain Sciences,
University Institutes and Centers
Affiliate of the Duke Initiative for Science & Society
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2014 - Present
Duke Science & Society,
University Initiatives & Academic Support Units
Recent Publications
Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons.
Journal Article Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · May 2025 Over the past few decades, studies have provided strong evidence that the robust links between the social environment, health, and survival found in humans also extend to nonhuman social animals. A number of these studies emphasize the early life origins o ... Full text CiteEnhancing Student Comprehension of Paternity Assignment in Molecular Primatology: A Pilot Study Using a Shiny Web Application in Kenya.
Journal Article American journal of primatology · March 2025 Kinship is a major determinant of affiliative and mating behavior in primates. In field studies, identifying kin typically relies in part on genetic analysis, especially for discriminating paternal relationships. Such analyses assume knowledge of Mendelian ... Full text CiteShared environments complicate the use of strain-resolved metagenomics to infer microbiome transmission.
Journal Article Microbiome · February 2025 BackgroundIn humans and other social animals, social partners have more similar microbiomes than expected by chance, suggesting that social contact transfers microorganisms. Yet, social microbiome transmission can be difficult to identify based on ... Full text CiteRecent Grants
Gene regulation and social relationships across the life course in a nonhuman primate model
ResearchCo Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2021 - 2026Behavior and Physiology in Aging
Inst. Training Prgm or CMEMentor · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2015 - 2025Research Network on Animal Models to Understand Social Dimensions of Aging
ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institute on Aging · 2020 - 2025View All Grants
Education, Training & Certifications
Duke University ·
2010
Ph.D.