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590
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 1990 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Overview

Anne E. Pusey is affiliated with Duke University in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including psychology and biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a significant focus on subfields such as social psychology, genetics, experimental and cognitive psychology, ecology, and developmental biology.

The main topics covered in Anne E. Pusey's work include primate behavior and ecology, neuroendocrine regulation and behavior, evolutionary psychology and human behavior, human-animal interaction studies, animal vocal communication and behavior, animal behavior and reproduction, and wildlife ecology and conservation.

Frequent co-authors in their publications include Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf, Joseph T. Feldblum, Michael L. Wilson, Deus Mjungu, and Beatrice H. Hahn.

Anne E. Pusey has published extensively in several venues notable for their focus on biology and behavior. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • iScience
  • Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences

Recent publications by Anne E. Pusey include:

  • Social bonds provide multiple pathways to reproductive success in wild male chimpanzees, 2021, iScience
  • The long lives of primates and the 'invariant rate of ageing' hypothesis, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Maternal death and offspring fitness in multiple wild primates, 2020, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Consequences of maternal loss before and after weaning in male and female wild chimpanzees, 2020, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology
  • Research and conservation in the greater Gombe ecosystem: challenges and opportunities, 2020, Biological Conservation

Anne E. Pusey has been recognized by their peers through awards such as Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005 and Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation in 1990.

Best Publications

  • Inbreeding avoidance in animals.

    Anne Pusey;Marisa Wolf

  • Great ape genetic diversity and population history

    Javier Prado-Martinez;Peter H. Sudmant;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Jeffrey M. Kidd;Heng Li

  • Sex-biased dispersal and inbreeding avoidance in birds and mammals.

    Anne E. Pusey

  • The behavior guide to African mammals: by Richard Despard Estes, University of California Press, 1991. $75.00 hbk (xxii + 611 pages) ISBN 0 520 05831 3

    Anne Pusey

  • Why Lions Form Groups: Food is Not Enough

    Craig Packer;D. Scheel;A. E. Pusey

  • Dispersal and philopatry

    A. E. Pusey

  • The Influence of Dominance Rank on the Reproductive Success of Female Chimpanzees

    Anne Pusey;Anne Pusey;Jennifer Williams;Jennifer Williams;Jane Goodall;Jane Goodall

  • Roaring and numerical assessment in contests between groups of female lions, Panthera leo

    Karen McComb;Craig Packer;Anne Pusey

  • A MOLECULAR GENETIC ANALYSIS OF KINSHIP AND COOPERATION IN AFRICAN LIONS

    C. Packer;D. A. Gilbert;A. E. Pusey;S. J. O'Brieni

  • Cospeciation of gut microbiota with hominids

    Andrew H. Moeller;Andrew H. Moeller;Alejandro Caro-Quintero;Deus Mjungu;Alexander V. Georgiev;Alexander V. Georgiev

  • Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts

    Micahel L. Wilson;Christophe Boesch;Barbara Fruth;Takeshi Furuichi

  • Inbreeding avoidance in chimpanzees

    Anne E. Pusey

  • Mortality rates among wild chimpanzees.

    Kim Hill;Christophe Boesch;Jane Goodall;Anne Pusey

  • Reproductive and genetic consequences of founding isolated lion populations

    David E. Wildt;Mitchell Bush;K. L. Goodrowe;Craig Packer

  • Noninvasive paternity assignment in Gombe chimpanzees.

    Julie L. Constable;Mary V. Ashley;Jane Goodall;Anne E. Pusey

  • Increased mortality and AIDS-like immunopathology in wild chimpanzees infected with SIVcpz

    Brandon F. Keele;Brandon F. Keele;James Holland Jones;Karen A. Terio;Jacob D. Estes

  • Cooperation and competition within coalitions of male lions: kin selection or game theory?

    Craig Packer;Anne E. Pusey

  • Why do male chimpanzees defend a group range

    Jennifer M. Williams;Gary W. Oehlert;John V. Carlis;Anne E. Pusey

  • Adaptations of Female Lions to Infanticide by Incoming Males

    Craig Packer;Anne E. Pusey

  • Fitness benefits of coalitionary aggression in male chimpanzees

    Ian C. Gilby;Lauren J. N. Brent;Emily E. Wroblewski;Rebecca S. Rudicell

  • Influence of ecological and social factors on body mass of wild chimpanzees

    A. E. Pusey;Gary W Oehlert;J. M. Williams;J. Goodall

Frequent Co-Authors

Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf
Elizabeth V. Lonsdorf Franklin & Marshall College
Beatrice H. Hahn
Beatrice H. Hahn University of Pennsylvania
Craig Packer
Craig Packer University of Minnesota
Richard W. Wrangham
Richard W. Wrangham Harvard University
Tara S. Stoinski
Tara S. Stoinski Georgia Institute of Technology
Linda M. Fedigan
Linda M. Fedigan University of Calgary
Susan C. Alberts
Susan C. Alberts Duke University
Karen B. Strier
Karen B. Strier University of Wisconsin–Madison
Marina Cords
Marina Cords Columbia University
Jeanne Altmann
Jeanne Altmann Princeton University

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