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

Curriculum vitae (pdf)

Muller, MN and M Emery Thompson (in press). Reproductive strategies of males. In The Evolution of Primate Societies. Edited by J Mitani, J Call, P Kappeler, R Palombit & J Silk. University of Chicago Press.

Newton-Fisher, NE and M Emery Thompson (in press). Comparative evolutionary perspectives on violence. In The Oxford Handbook of Evolutionary Perspetives on Violence, Homicide, and War. Edited by V. Weekes-Shackelford & T Shackelford. Oxford University Press.

Emery Thompson, M and LC Alvarado (in press). Human sexual conflict and sexual coercion in comparative evolutionary perspective. In Oxford Handbook of Sexual Conflict in Humans. Edited by A Goetz & T Shackelford. Oxford University Press.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (in press). Pan troglodytes. In Mammals of Africa. Edited by DCD Happold, J Kingdon, and T Butynski. Bloomsbury Press.

Georgiev, A, M Emery Thompson, A Lokasola, and RW Wrangham (2011). Seed-predation by bonobos (Pan paniscus) at Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of Congo. Primates 52: 309-314. DOI link

Garver-Apgar, C, MA Heap, JM Tybur, and M Emery Thompson (2011). Evidence of intralocus sexual conflict: physically and hormonally masculine individuals have more attractive brothers relative to sisters. Evolution and Human Behavior 32:423-432. DOI link

Caldwell-Hooper, A, SW Gangestad, M Emery Thompson, and AD Bryan (2011). Testosterone and romance: the association of salivary testosterone with relationship status, commitment and satisfaction in heterosexual men and women. American Journal of Human Biology 23: 553-555. DOI link

Benenson, JF, H Markovitz, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2011). Under threat of social exclusion, females exclude more than males. Psychological Science 22:538-544. DOI link

Muller, MN, M Emery Thompson, SM Kahlenberg, and RW Wrangham (2011). Sexual coercion by male chimpanzees shows that female choice may be more apparent than real. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 65: 921-933. DOI link

Gangestad, SW, L Merriman, and M Emery Thompson (2010). Men's oxidative stress, fluctuating asymmetry, and physical attractiveness. Animal Behaviour 80: 1005-1013. DOI link

Emery Thompson, M, MN Muller, SM Kahlenberg, and RW Wrangham (2010). Dynamics of ecological and social stress in wild chimpanzees. Hormones and Behavior 58: 440-449. DOI link

Gilby, IC, M Emery Thompson, JD Ruane, RW Wrangham (2010). No evidence of short term exchange of meat for sex among chimpanzees. Journal of Human Evolution 59: 44-53.DOI link

Newton-Fisher, NE, M Emery Thompson, V Reynolds, C Boesch, and L Vigilant (2010). Paternity and social rank in Budongo Forest chimpanzees. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 142: 417-428. DOI link

Knott, CD, M Emery Thompson, RM Stumpf, and M McIntyre (2010). Female reproductive strategies in orangutans, evidence for female choice and infanticide counterstrategies in a species with frequent sexual coercion. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 277: 105-113. DOI link

Emery Thompson, M (2009). Human rape: revising evolutionary perspectives. In Sexual Coercion in Primates: An Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females. Edited by MN Muller, RW Wrangham. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA, pp. 346-374.

Benenson, J, H Markovitz, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2009). Strength determines coalitional strategies in humans. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London B: Biological Sciences 276: 2589-2595. DOI link.

Stumpf, RM, M Emery Thompson, MN Muller and RW Wrangham (2009). The context of dispersal in Kanyawara chimpanzees. Behaviour 146: 629-656. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M, MN Muller, RW Wrangham, JS Lwanga, and K Potts (2009). Urinary C-peptide tracks seasonal and individual variation in energy balance in wild chimpanzees. Hormones and Behavior 55: 299-305. DOI link.

Knott, CD, M Emery Thompson, and SA Wich (2009). The ecology of reproduction in wild orangutans. In Orangutans: Ecology, Evolution, Behaviour, and Conservation. Edited by SA Wich, SS Utami, T Mitra Setia, and CP van Schaik. Oxford University Press, London. pp. 171-188

Emery Thompson, M (2009). The endocrinology of intersexual relationships among apes. In The Endocrinology of Social Relationships. Edited by PB Gray and PT Ellison. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA. pp. 196-223.

Emery Thompson, M, ML Wilson, AE Pusey, G Gobbo, MN Muller, and AE Pusey (2008). Hyperprogesteronemia in response to Vitex fischeri consumption in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). American Journal of Primatology: 1064-1071. DOI link.

Kahlenberg, SM, M Emery Thompson, MN Muller, and RW Wrangham (2008). Immigration costs for female chimpanzees and male protection as an immigrant counterstrategy to intrasexual aggression. Animal Behaviour 76: 1497-1509. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (2008). Male mating interest varies with female fecundity in Pan troglodytes of Kanyawara, Kibale National Park. International Journal of Primatology 29: 885-905. DOI link.

Stumpf, RM, M Emery Thompson, and CD Knott (2008). A comparison of female mating strategies in Pan troglodytes and Pongo spp. International Journal of Primatology 29: 865-884. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M , RM Stumpf, and AE Pusey (2008). Female reproductive strategies and competition in apes. International Journal of Primatology 29: 815-821. DOI link

Kahlenberg, SM, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2008). Evidence for female competition over core areas in Pan troglodytes, Kibale National Park, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 29: 931-947. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M and CD Knott (2008). Urinary C-peptide of insulin as a non-invasive marker of energy balance in wild orangutans. Hormones and Behavior 53: 526-535. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (2008). Diet and reproductive function in wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Kibale National Park, Uganda. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 135: 171-181. DOI link.

Anderson, HB, M Emery Thompson, CD Knott, and L Perkins (2008). Fertility and mortality patterns of captive Bornean and Sumatran orangutans: Is there a species difference in life history? Journal of Human Evolution 54: 34-42. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M, JH Jones, AE Pusey, S Brewer-Marsden, J Goodall, D Marsden, T Matsuzawa, T Nishida, V Reynolds, Y Sugiyama, and RW Wrangham (2007). Aging and fertility patterns in wild chimpanzees provide insights into the evolution of menopause. Current Biology 17: 2150-2156. DOI link.

Townsend, SW, KE Slocombe, M Emery Thompson, and K Zuberbühler (2007). Female-led infanticide in wild chimpanzees. Current Biology 17: 365-366. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M, SM Kahlenberg, IC Gilby, and RW Wrangham (2007). Core area quality is associated with variance in reproductive success in chimpanzees at Kanyawara, Kibale National Park. Animal Behaviour 73: 501-512. PDF.

Muller, MN, SM Kahlenberg, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2007). Male coercion and the costs of promiscuous mating in chimpanzees. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 274: 1009-1014. PDF.

Emery Thompson, M, NE Newton-Fisher, and V Reynolds (2006). Probable community transfer of parous adult female chimpanzees in the Budongo Forest, Uganda. International Journal of Primatology 27: 1601-1617. DOI link.

Muller, MN, M Emery Thompson, and RW Wrangham (2006). Male chimpanzees prefer mating with older females. Current Biology 16: 2234-2238. DOI link.

Brewer-Marsden, S, D Marsden, and M Emery Thompson (2006). Demographic and female life history parameters of free-ranging chimpanzees at the Chimpanzee Rehabilitation Project, River Gambia National Park. International Journal of Primatology 27: 391-410. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M, RW Wrangham, and V Reynolds (2006). Urine estrone conjugates and reproductive parameters in Kibale (Kanyawara) and Budongo (Sonso) chimpanzees. In Primates of Western Uganda. Edited by NE Newton-Fisher, H Notman, V Reynolds, and J Paterson. Springer, New York, pp. 227-246. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M and RW Wrangham (2006). Comparison of sex differences in gregariousness in fission-fusion species: reducing bias by standardizing for party size. In Primates of Western Uganda. Edited by NE Newton-Fisher, H Notman, V Reynolds, and J Paterson. Springer, New York, pp. 209-226. DOI link.

Emery Thompson, M (2005). Reproductive endocrinology of wild female chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii): methodological considerations and the role of hormones in sex and conception. American Journal of Primatology 67: 137-158. DOI link.

Emery, MA and PL Whitten (2003). Size of sexual swellings reflects ovarian function in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 54: 340-351. DOI link.

Santiago, ML, M Lukasik, S Kamenya, Y Li, F Bibollet-Ruche, E Bailes, MN Muller, M Emery, DA Goldenberg, J Lwanga, A Ayouba, E Nerrienet, HM McClure, JL Heeney, DP Watts, AE Pusey, DA Collins, RW Wrangham, J Goodall, JFY Brookfield, PM Sharp, GM Shaw, and BH Hahn (2003). Foci of endemic simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild-living eastern chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). Journal of Virology 77: 7545-7562. PDF.