… For example, a recent survey of published records of nonexperimental parasite infections
across 200 primate species (C. Nunn & S. Altizer, unpublished data) showed that the vast …

… Charles Nunn is an evolutionary anthropologist with interests in primate disease ecology,
behavior, and cultural evolution. His research uses phylogenetic methods and mathematical …

Females of some Old World primate taxa advertise their sexual receptivity with exaggerated
sexual swellings. Although a number of hypotheses have been proposed, the function of this …

Cognition presents evolutionary research with one of its greatest challenges. Cognitive
evolution has been explained at the proximate level by shifts in absolute and relative brain …

… Charlie also wishes to thank his parents, John and Janet Nunn, and Dorothy McIntyre, for
providing a learning environment, education, and support that ultimately made this work …

… ”), and (c) number of habitats and number of languages. The results in (c) remain significantwhen
… I review this concept of “phylogenetic targeting” (Arnold 2008; Arnold and Nunn 2010). …

Statistical inference based on stepwise model selection is applied regularly in ecological,
evolutionary, and behavioral research. In addition to fundamental shortcomings with regard to …

… Using the published literature on free‐ranging primate behavior and ecology (see Nunn
and van Schaik 2001), we obtained estimates of group size (mean number of adult and …

Now more than ever animal studies have the potential to test hypotheses regarding how
cognition evolves. Comparative psychologists have developed new techniques to probe the …

Parasite‐driven declines in wildlife have become increasingly common and can pose significant
risks to natural populations. We used the IUCN Red List of Threatened and Endangered …