S. C. Alberts

This study finds that in wild baboon groups, larger groups have less affiliative behavior and more social conflict compared to smaller groups.

This study finds that early-life drought in wild female baboons predicts shorter limbs but not torso length, with moderate heritability for body size measures.

The paper examines heritable and sex-specific variation in the development of social behavior in wild baboons, finding early sex differences and weak heritability in grooming age.

The paper shows early life adversity and adult social isolation independently reduce survival in wild baboons, supporting both health selection and social causation hypotheses.

The paper examines fetal loss in wild baboons, finding that ecological factors and age, not genetic ancestry, predict pregnancy outcomes in a hybrid zone.

The paper estimates genetic and environmental variance in grooming behavior in wild baboons, finding heritability and indirect genetic effects influencing social interactions.

The paper tests four hypotheses about adaptive sex ratio bias in wild baboons using a large dataset and finds no support for adaptive biasing of offspring sex ratios.

The paper analyzes gut microbial relationships in wild baboons and finds that microbial correlations are largely universal across hosts, with positive correlations dominated by shared patterns.

The paper combines field observations and genomic data from baboons to study admixture and gene regulatory divergence, finding selection against introgression similar to archaic hominins.

This study examines gut microbiome dynamics in wild baboons, finding that microbial dynamics are largely idiosyncratic despite shared environments, with host-specific factors explaining most variation.

This study shows that genetic ancestry predicts male-female affiliative behavior in hybrid baboons, with anubis ancestry associated with higher rates of opposite-sex social bonding.

The paper examines the effects of maternal death on offspring fitness in wild primates, finding reduced survival before maternal death and intergenerational fitness impacts in three species.

This study compares ordinal and proportional dominance rank metrics to predict 20 traits in wild baboons, finding sex-specific differences in how competition shapes outcomes.

The paper shows that early adversity in wild baboon mothers reduces offspring survival, independent of the offspring's own adversity, through parental effects.