Primatologist, Assistant Professor and PI of the Great Ape Behaviour Lab at UVic Anthropology in BC, Canada
www.ammiekkalan.com
Ammie Kalan
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It took 3 years to complete this paper and it was difficult(!) but I think both @ctennie.bsky.social and I are grateful for the varied perspectives we gained as a result of this collaboration. If you work on ape culture, hopefully you'll feel the same
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Chess 🇨🇦: #Canada
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Andreas 🇨🇦 Fella 💙 #AbolishICE, start from scratch
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Here's a summary of our recent field work studying the accumulative stone throwing behavior of chimpanzees. Thanks to @sshrc-crsh.canada.ca for funding this research!
Ammie Kalan
What’s better to read about on Valentine’s Day than our new paper on same-sex sex in Rwenzori colobus? ❤️❤️ Monkey love knows no bounds. can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
To study accumulative stone throwing among wild chimpanzees, researchers hike deep into the savanna-woodland of Boé — a habitat increasingly threatened by industrial mining.
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New paper for primatology, comparative cognition & cultural evolution: @ammiekalan.bsky.social & Tennie “Brokering peace in the ape (culture) wars”.
"Ape culture wars” is the term for the long-running dispute over how ape culture should be understood / studied.
Open access:
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Very good @natneuro.nature.com review by @janetsong.bsky.social M. Greenberg D. Reich & C. Walsh, capturing progress made by genomic approaches to understand the evolution of the human brain 🧪🧬🧠
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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This Review describes how an approach that starts from genetic changes under selection during human evolution and integrates comparative and functional studies can reveal adaptive phenotypes across di...
