Melissa Emery Thompson

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Evolutionary Anthropology

melissa.thompson@duke.edu

ORCID iD

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2451-6397

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Research
1. Selected Grants
2. External Relationships

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Selected Grants

Great apes and the evolutionary origins of long life: the influences of early life adversity on lifespan and individual frailty in wild chimpanzees and gorillas

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International · 2026 - 2029

Novel frameworks for explaining unequal access to the health benefits of social ties: a longitudinal analysis in chimpanzees

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2028

Cumulative Life Course Effects on Aging and Health in a Long-Lived Primate Model

ResearchPrincipal Investigator · Awarded by National Institutes of Health · 2026 - 2027

External Relationships

Kibale Chimpanzee Project, Inc.

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