Department of Anthropology Spring 2024 Colloquium Series

Anthropologist Megan Petersdorf will deliver the talk "Sexual Selection in the Little-Known Kinda Baboon" on April 19th, 4 pm, Dinwiddie Hall 103.

Abstract:

Understanding how the combined influence of mate competition and mate choice has influenced the evolution of traits remains a key goal of sexual selection research. Primates represent a strong model empirical system, as they exhibit remarkable intra-order variation in social and reproductive patterns. Here, I present a framework for the evolution of sexually selected trait diversity that I tested in a population of wild Kinda baboons. Specifically, I will discuss how reproductive synchrony can influence the evolution of male competitive regimes, and how female sexual signals may have evolved to reinforce or oppose male monopolization and ultimately mating outcomes.

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