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Professor of Anthropology in Arts and Sciences
Expertise: behavior and ecology, primate biology, diet and nutrition, dental morphology, east Africa, South America
Bio: Phillips-Conroy's studies of free-ranging primates are focused on how behavioral, demographic and ecological variables function to influence populaton structure. Her research has been focused on a long-term study of the hybrid zone between olive and hamadryas baboons in the Awash National Park in Ethiopia (Papio hamadryas, s.l.). Her team traps and tags as many individuals as possible and examines a broad range of biological features, which they consider in the animals' ecological and behavioral contexts. The scope of her research now extends to fields as diverse as genetics, morphology and neurochemistry, in addition to continued interest in dental variation and its relevance for understanding morphological events that occur in the baboon hybrid zone. She describes her research as broad spectrum, integrative and collaborative. Her research also addresses the more general question of variation, distribution, adaptation and speciation within the genus Papio as a whole; her fieldwork has extended to studies of yellow baboons in Tanzania and olive baboons in Kenya. She has also collected similar data on grivet monkeys, Cercopithecus aethiops, which are sympatric with the Ethiopian baboons, and have particularly focused on naturalistic studies of SIV transmission among these primates. In 1994, together with Robert Sussman, she began to survey Guyana's rain forest primate species and will continue to direct our students and research to their study and conservation.
WUSTL Contact Information:
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Education:
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Ph.D. at New York University
Affiliated with Barnes-Jewish Hospital and St. Louis Children's Hospital, members of BJC HealthCare.
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