In
2007 the Primatology & Ecology Field School in Kenya brings on-board Dr. Leah Domb as a co-director. This is exciting for the program and for the students.
Below are a few of Dr. Domb's publications
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Domb, L. and Pagel, M. 2002. Reply to Zinner et. al. 2002. Significance of primate sexual swellings. Nature, 420: 143.
- Domb, L. 2002. Sexual selection in female animals. Oxford Encyclopedia of Evolution. Oxford University Press.
- Domb, L. and Pagel, M. 2001. Sexual swellings advertise female quality in wild baboons. Nature 410: 204-206.
- Hauser, M., Domb, L., Goldberg, T. and Treves, A. 1993. The functions of grooming and language: the present need not reflect the past. Response to Dunbar: Behavioral and Brain Sciences 16(4): 706-707.
Rutgers University anthropologists are also involved with primatology research long term. Please contact Dr. Ryne Palombit for more information about this study.
Project Papio--Comparative Research of Olive and Chacma Baboons, Anthropology/Center
for Human Evolutionary Studies, Rutgers University
Project
Papio is a long-term comparative study of chacma baboons (Papio
hamadryas ursinus) in Okavango Delta, Botswana and olive baboons (Papio
hamadryas anubis) in Laikipia, Kenya (Segera). To read more about
the
research program of Project Papio go to Dr.
Ryne Palombit's home page.