Primates in Perspective

Christina Campbell is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at California State University, Northridge. Agustin Fuentes is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Notre Dame. Katherine MacKinnon is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Saint Louis University. Rebecca Stumpf is AssistantProfessor of Anthropology at the University of Illinois. Simon Bearder is Professor of Anthropology at Oxford Brookes University.

Agust�n Fuentes completed a B.A. in Zoology and Anthropology, and an M.A.& Ph.D. in Anthropology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests include the evolution of social complexity in human and primate societies, conflict negotiation across primates, including humans, and reproductive behavior and ecology. He is also interested in issues of human-nonhuman primate interactions, disease and pathogen transfer. Fuentes’ recent work includes publications such as “It’s Not All Sex and Violence: Integrated Anthropology and the Role of Cooperation and Social Complexity in Human Evolution” in the American Anthropologist,…  More “Re-visiting conflict resolution: Is there a role for emphasizing negotiation and cooperation instead of conflict and reconciliation?” in R. Sussman and A. Chapman Eds., The Origins and Nature of Sociality Aldine de Gruyter, Pub. He has published two edited volumes and is currently in the process of finishing three other texts. His current research projects include assessing behavior and disease transmission in human-monkey interactions in Asia and Gibraltar and examining the roles of cooperation, social negotiation, and patterns of niche construction in human evolution.  Less