Research Highlights
Stress, Sociality, and Reproduction in Female Chacma Baboons
Shahrina Chowdhury (CUNY PhD Student) describes her ongoing PhD research on the effects of environmental and social stressors on the behaviour, physiology, and reproduction of female chacma baboons in the Cape Peninsula of South Africa. This project has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Leakey Foundation and is supervised by Larissa Swedell (Queens College / CUNY).
Paleontological Field Work at the Pliocene Fossil Mammal Site of Senèze
Dr. Eric Delson (Lehman College / CUNY and AMNH) describes his recently completed re-excavation of the fossil site of Senèze, the reference locality for the late Villefranchian.
Migration and Urbanization on the Swahili Coast
Dr. Ryan Raaum (Lehman College / CUNY) describes his ongoing NSF-funded project reconstructing the human population history of the East African coast. This interdisciplinary project brings together specialists in archaeology, skeletal biology, population genetics, and ancient DNA in order to unravel the establishment and transformation of human populations on the Swahili Coast.