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World Ranking
2768
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2020 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2010 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Agustin Fuentes is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research spans multiple disciplines, focusing primarily on social psychology, genetics, ecology, anthropology, and sociology and political science. The scientist's work addresses a range of topics, including primate behavior and ecology, race, genetics, and society, Pleistocene-era hominins and archaeology, wildlife ecology and conservation, zoonotic diseases and public health, climate change and health impacts, and animal behavior and reproduction.

Their recent notable papers include:

  • Getting genetic ancestry right for science and society (2022, Science)
  • Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world's primates from extinction (2022, Science Advances)
  • Genetic ancestry in precision medicine is reshaping the race debate (2022, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences)
  • Global distribution and coincidence of pollution, climate impacts, and health risk in the Anthropocene (2021, PLoS ONE)
  • Verbs, Bones, and Brains: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Human Nature (2023, OPAL [Open@LaTrobe] [La Trobe University])

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Lee R. Berger, John Hawks, Richard A. Marcantonio, Malene F. Hansen, and Marc Kissel.

The scientist has published extensively in several key academic venues such as Science, eLife, Behavioral and Brain Sciences, Anthropology Now, and American Anthropologist.

In addition to articles, Agustin Fuentes has contributed to book publications, notably with Berghahn Books. Titles include Health, Risk, and Adversity (2022) and Ethics in the Field (2022).

Agustin Fuentes has been recognized through fellowships including:

  • Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2020)
  • Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2010)

Best Publications

  • Impending extinction crisis of the world's primates: why primates matter

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Anthony B. Rylands;Christian Roos

  • NATURALCULTURAL ENCOUNTERS IN BALI: Monkeys, Temples, Tourists, and Ethnoprimatology

    Agustín Fuentes

  • Ethnoprimatology and the Anthropology of the Human-Primate Interface ∗

    Agustin Fuentes

  • The ethnoprimatological approach in primatology

    Agustin Fuentes;Kimberley J. Hockings;Kimberley J. Hockings

  • The Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, Ethnography, and the Human Niche: Toward an Integrated Anthropology

    Agustin Fuentes

  • Primates in peril: the significance of Brazil, Madagascar, Indonesia and the Democratic Republic of the Congo for global primate conservation

    Alejandro Estrada;Paul A. Garber;Russell A. Mittermeier;Serge Wich

  • Primates face to face : conservation implications of human-nonhuman primate interconnections

    Agustín Fuentes;Linda D. Wolfe

  • Re-evaluating primate monogamy

    Agustin Fuentes

  • Primate-to-human retroviral transmission in Asia.

    Lisa Jones-Engel;Gregory A. Engel;Michael A. Schillaci;Aida Rompis

  • Hylobatid communities: Changing views on pair bonding and social organization in hominoids.

    Agustin Fuentes

  • Integrative Anthropology and the Human Niche: Toward a Contemporary Approach to Human Evolution

    Agustín Fuentes

  • Global importance of Indigenous Peoples, their lands, and knowledge systems for saving the world’s primates from extinction

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  • Human culture and monkey behavior: Assessing the contexts of potential pathogen transmission between macaques and humans.

    Agustín Fuentes

  • AAPA Statement on Race and Racism.

    Agustín Fuentes;Rebecca Rogers Ackermann;Sheela Athreya;Deborah Bolnick

  • Human exposure to herpesvirus B-seropositive macaques, Bali, Indonesia.

    Gregory A. Engel;Lisa Jones-Engel;Michael A. Schillaci;Komang Gde Suaryana

  • Disproportionate participation by age/sex classes in aggressive interactions between long-tailed macaques (Macaca fascicularis) and human tourists at Padangtegal monkey forest, Bali, Indonesia.

    Agustín Fuentes;Scott Gamerl

  • Diverse Contexts of Zoonotic Transmission of Simian Foamy Viruses in Asia

    Lisa Jones-Engel;Cynthia C. May;Gregory A. Engel;Katherine A. Steinkraus

  • Patterns and trends in primate pair bonds

    Agustin Fuentes

  • Macaque–human interactions and the societal perceptions of macaques in Singapore

    John Chih Mun Sha;Michael D. Gumert;Benjamin P Y H Lee;Lisa Jones-Engel

  • Variation in the Social Systems of Extant Hominoids: Comparative Insight into the Social Behavior of Early Hominins

    N. Malone;A. Fuentes;F. J. White

  • Feeding and ranging in the Mentawai Island langur (Presbytis potenziani)

    Agustin Fuentes

  • On the move: How and why animals travel in groups

    Agustin Fuentes

  • Primate Life Histories and Socioecology

    Agustin Fuentes

Frequent Co-Authors

Catherine Panter-Brick
Catherine Panter-Brick Yale University
Brenda McCowan
Brenda McCowan University of California, Davis
Nicholas W. Lerche
Nicholas W. Lerche University of California, Davis
Peter A. Barry
Peter A. Barry Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Paul A. Garber
Paul A. Garber University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Patrick V. Kirch
Patrick V. Kirch University of Hawaii at Manoa
Mark Alfano
Mark Alfano Macquarie University
Tim Ingold
Tim Ingold University of Aberdeen

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