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Maria Creighton

Student
Biology

Overview


As a formally trained conservationist and behavioral biologist my research interests bridge ideas from both these disciplines. One of my primary research interests is understanding why sociality evolves, and how social behaviors help animals to navigate environmental challenges. To answer these questions, I leverage individual, group, and species -level data on wild animal populations to determine how the social and physical environments interact in their effects on fitness-related outcomes at various evolutionary scales.

Current Appointments & Affiliations


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 Cite

Explaining the primate extinction crisis: predictors of extinction risk and active threats.

Journal Article Proceedings. Biological sciences · September 2023 Explaining why some species are disproportionately impacted by the extinction crisis is of critical importance for conservation biology as a science and for proactively protecting species that are likely to become threatened in the future. Using the most c ... Full text Cite
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