Melissa Emery Thompson, PhD

Melissa Emery Thompson, Ph.D.
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
MSC01-1040, University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM 87131
memery@unm.edu

Projects and Affiliations

UNM Department of Anthropology

UNM Human Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences Network

Kibale Chimpanzee Project

Budongo Forest Project

Gunung Palung Orangutan Project

JGI Center for Primate Studies

Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Trust, Gambia

UNM-UCSB Tsimane Project

Harvard Museum of Natural History travel program

Conservation and Funding

Kasiisi School Project

Gunung Palung Orangutan Conservation Program

Great Ape Survival Project

Great Ape World Heritage Species Project

Leakey Foundation

Wenner-Gren Foundation

National Science Foundation

Press

Press Release - "Unlike humans, chimpanzees don't go through menopause"

Press Release - "Female-led infanticide in chimpanzees"

Press Release - "Domestic violence in the jungle"

Press Release - "Male chimpanzees prefer mating with old females"

CBC Interview on "Quirks & Quarks" (Nov 2006)

Science and Spirit Magazine (2007): "Age Before Beauty"

Collaborators

Martin N. Muller, University of New Mexico

Richard W. Wrangham, Harvard University

Cheryl D. Knott, Harvard Univ.

Anne E. Pusey, University of Minnesota

Steven Gangestad, Univ. New Mexico

Hillard Kaplan, Univ. New Mexico

Beatrice Hahn, University of Alabama-Birmingham

Ian C. Gilby, Harvard University

Rebecca M. Stumpf, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Nicholas E. Newton Fisher, Kent University

Joyce Benenson, Emmanuel College

Klaus Zuberbühler, University of St. Andrews