Professor of Anthropology and BEC faculty member Brooke Scelza was interviewed about her work on extra-pair paternity on the Science podcast this week: https://www.science.org/content/podcast/intrusive-thoughts-during-pregnancy-paternity-detectives-and-updates-trump-tracker
“Meet the Capuchin monkey”: an interview with BEC faculty Susan Perry in Knowable magazine, from Annual Reviews: https://knowablemagazine.org/content/article/living-world/2025/meet-the-capuchin-monkey
BEC Faculty Susan Perry and BEC PhD student Ashley Mensing have co-authored a new paper in Science Advances on stress responses in white-faced capuchin monkeys, showing that more extreme stress responses provided adaptive benefits in surviving an extreme El Niño related drought. See the UCLA press release here: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/stronger-stress-response-in-monkeys-helps-them-survive And the paper here: https://www.science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.adq5020
BEC Faculty member and Professor of Anthropology Brooke Scelza has a new piece in Scientific American about what the ‘manosphere’ gets wrong about cuckoldry: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/heres-what-the-manosphere-gets-wrong-about-cuckoldry/
Former BEC grad student Kristine Chua, now a postdoc at UCSB, has been featured in the online magazine STAT, and has been named one of STAT’s 2023 “Wunderkinds.” Congrats Kristine! The scientist studying how fugitive fetal cells may affect maternal health Kristine Chua
The latest issue of AJP features two new articles by BEC members Sasha Winkler, Dani Steinberg, Jessica Lynch, Susan Perry and Erica Cartmill: The development of sex differences in play in wild white-faced capuchins (Cebus capucinus) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.23434 A robust tool kit: First report of tool use in captive crested capuchin monkeys (Sapajus robustus) https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ajp.23428
EEB Faculty member and BEC affiliate Dan Blumstein has been awarded the 2020 Richard Buchholz conservation behavior award from the Animal Behavior Society Conservation Committee: https://newsroom.ucla.edu/dept/faculty/dan-blumenstein-recognized-for-research-mentorship-in-conservation-behavior-field
UCLA Anthropology student Renée Hagen has been awarded the 2021 George C. Williams award by the International Society for Evolution, Medicine and Public Health. This is a $5,000 Prize for best paper in the Society’s flagship journal, Evolution, Medicine and Public Health, for her paper with Brooke Scelza: Hagen, Renée V., and Brooke A. Scelza. […]
UCLA Anthropology graduate student Sasha Winkler discusses research on animal laughter by her and Prof. Greg Bryant on NPR: https://www.npr.org/2021/05/22/999491591/dozens-of-animals-laugh-too-study-shows
Community Involvement & Representation(s) in Biological Anthropology A Panel Discussion on April 23, 10:30 AM – 2 PM PDT What do biological anthropologists owe to their research participants? How do we reckon with the biases that have characterized our field from its inception? The UCLA Biological Anthropology DEI Graduate Group, in collaboration with the UCLA […]
