Steven E. Churchill

Professor in the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: Duke University, Evolutionary Anthropology, 130 Science Drive, Room 108, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383

Phone: (919) 660-7314

churchy@duke.edu

I am a human paleontologist studying morphological and behavioral adaptation in archaic and modern humans of the Middle and Late Pleistocene. Through comparative functional-morphological analysis of human fossil remains, coupled with investigation of the archeological record of...

Leslie J. Digby

Associate Professor of the Practice of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: 08A Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383

Phone: (919) 660-7398

ldigby@duke.edu

My research focuses on the  behavior and ecology of non-human primates, including how primates balance cooperation and competition in their breeding strategies. In addition, I examine how animals mitigate the costs of temperature extremes through behavior and the use of microhabitats. Our...

Kenneth Earl Glander

Professor Emeritus of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: 130 Science Dr., 108 Bio Sci Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 668-0267

glander@duke.edu

Primate ecology and social organization: the interaction between feeding patterns and social structure; evolutionary development of optimal group size and composition; factors affecting short and long-term demographic changes in stable groups; primate use of regenerating forests.
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Richard Frederick Kay

Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: 0013 Biological Sciences Building, 130 Science Drive, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383

Phone: (919) 684-2143

richard.kay@duke.edu

I have two areas of research:1) the evolution of primates in South America; and 2) the use of primate anatomy to reconstruct the phylogenetic history and adapations of living and extinct primates, especially Anthropoidea.

1) Evolution of primates and mammalian faunal evolution,...

Anne Pusey

James B. Duke Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: 101 Biological Sciences Bldg, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Duke Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708-0383

Phone: (919) 684-1848

anne.pusey@duke.edu

I am interested in understanding the evolution of sociality, social structure, and the patterns of competition, cooperation and social bonds in animal species, including humans. Most of my work has focused on social mammals: lions and chimpanzees. For the last twenty years I have worked almost...

Jenny Tung

Associate Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology

Office: 08 Bio Sci, Durham, NC 27708

Campus Box: Box 90383, Durham, NC 27708

Phone: (919) 668-4912

jenny.tung@duke.edu