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ALEXIS J. BAIDE
Graduate Teaching Assist (TA), Anthropology Department
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KRISTEN HAWKES
Distinguished Professor, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: I'm working on human life history evolution guided by the hypothesis that grandmothering is a fundamental shift in our genus underlying a suite of features that distinguish humans from other great apes. Current efforts include 1) collaborations in mathematical modeling and 2) data collection to improve estimates of ovarian and somatic aging in our closest living relatives, chimpanzees. I continue to attend to hunter-gatherer behavioral ecology.
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ADRIAN VILIAMI BELL
Associate Professor, Anthropology Department
Adjunct Curator of Anthropology, University of Utah, Natural History Museum of Utah
Research Summary: Our long, successful, and continuing story of migration across the globe attests to the extraordinary adaptability of humans. Part of our success likely lies in adaptive learning strategies. Through mathematical modeling, ethnographic fieldwork, and experiments, I test whether evolutionary theory can explain the cultural variation I see among Tongan migrants in Utah, the Western U.S., and other parts of the world.
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Wayne K. Potts
Adjunct Professor, University of Utah, Pathology
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ALAN R ROGERS
Professor Emeritus, Anthropology Department
Research Summary: Human evolutionary genetics. I develop statistical methods that use genetic data to study the history of populations.
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Phyllis D COLEY
Distinguished Prof Emeritus, School Of Biological Sciences
Research Affiliate, The Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Research Summary: Our research focuses on the ecology and evolution of tropical rainforest plants and their interaction with herbivores. Using a phylogenetic context, we characterize plant defenses, especially secondary metabolites and link this with herbivore host choice. We hope to shed light on factors driving high local plant diversity in the tropics, evolutionary impacts of plants and herbivores on each other, and how these interactions may promote speciation.
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M. Denise DEARING
Distinguished Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
Research Summary: Ecology and evolution of dietary specialization; Nutritional ecology of herbivorous vertebrates; Mammalian and avian detoxification of plant secondary metabolites; Application of stable isotopes in ecology; Ecology of infectious disease
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NITIN PHADNIS
Associate Professor, School Of Biological Sciences
Research Summary: The Molecular Basis of Speciation - Our lab specializes in identifying hybrid sterility and inviability genes in a variety of Drosophila species.
Intra-Genomic Conflict - We are currently studying the molecular basis of segregation distortion in D. pseudoobscura Bogota-USA hybrids, and the SR system in D. pseudoobscura.
Causes and Effects of Positive Selection - We are interested in the functional analyses of genes that have evolved rapid sequence divergence under positive selection.