Jessica Lynch Alfaro, Associate Director

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Ph.D. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison

M.S. Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
A.B., English, University of California, Davis

Email: jlynchalfaro at socgen.edu

 

Bio

 

Jessica Lynch Alfaro is the Associate Director for the Center for Society and Genetics at UCLA, and an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University.  She co-edits the journal Neotropical Primates, a publication of Conservation International.  She received her B.A. in English at the University of California, Davis and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Dr. Lynch Alfaro is a biological anthropologist whose research centers on the evolution of diversity in socially learned behaviors, mating strategies and social structuring in Neotropical primates. Her research focuses most strongly on the genus Cebus, the capuchin monkeys.  Like humans, capuchins are a recent and successful radiation of weedy generalists, able to survive even in marginal habitats through extractive foraging and tool use.  Populations of capuchin monkeys in the wild differ markedly from one another in social and sexual behaviors and in grouping patterns, and thus provide an excellent system for comparative study of both cultural and genetic variation.

 

 

·         Lynch Alfaro, J. W. (2008)  Scream-Embrace displays in wild black-horned capuchin monkeys.  American Journal of Primatology 70(6): 551-559. Abstract

·         Lynch Alfaro, J. W. (2007)  Subgrouping patterns in a group of wild Cebus apella nigritus. International Journal of Primatology 28(2): 271-289. PDF

·         Serio-Silva, J. C., Lynch Alfaro, J. W., Hernandez Salazar, L.T. (2007), ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR OF TROPICAL PRIMATES, in International Commission on Tropical Biology and Natural Resources, [Eds. Kleber Del Claro et al.], in Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems (EOLSS), Developed under the Auspices of the UNESCO, Eolss Publishers, Oxford ,UK, [http://www.eolss.net].

·         Lynch Alfaro, J. W.  (2005)  Male mating strategies and reproductive constraints in a group of wild tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus. American Journal of Primatology 67(3): 313-328.

·         Altmann, J., Lynch, J.W., Nguyen, N., Alberts, S.C. and Gesquiere, L.R. (2004) Life-history correlates of steroid concentrations in wild peripartum baboons.  American Journal of Primatology 64: 95-106.                 

·         Lynch, J.W., Altmann, J., Njahira, M.N., Rubenstein, N. (2003) Concentrations of four fecal steroids in wild baboons: short-term storage conditions and consequences for data interpretation.  General and Comparative Endocrinology 132: 264-271.

·         Strier, K.B., Lynch, J.W., and Ziegler, T.E.  (2003) Hormonal changes during the mating and conception seasons of wild northern muriquis (Brachyteles arachnoides hypoxanthus).  American Journal of Primatology 61: 85-99.

·         Lynch, J.W., Ziegler, T.E., and Strier, K.B.  (2002) Individual and seasonal variation in fecal testosterone and cortisol in wild male tufted capuchin monkeys, Cebus apella nigritus.  Hormones and Behavior 41: 275.