The biology of aging in a social world: insights from free-ranging rhesus macaques

LE Newman, C Testard, AR DeCasien, KL Chiou… - Neuroscience & …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Social adversity can increase the age-associated risk of disease and death, yet the
biological mechanisms that link social adversities to aging remain poorly understood. Long …

The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene

EB Cooper, LJN Brent, N Snyder-Mackler, M Singh… - Elife, 2022‏ - elifesciences.org
Of all the non-human primate species studied by researchers, the rhesus macaque (Macaca
mulatta) is likely the most widely used across biological disciplines. Rhesus macaques have …

Early life adversity has sex-dependent effects on survival across the lifespan in rhesus macaques

SK Patterson, E Andonov, AM Arre… - Philosophical …, 2024‏ - royalsocietypublishing.org
Exposure to early life adversity is linked to detrimental fitness outcomes across taxa. Owing
to the challenges of collecting longitudinal data, direct evidence for long-term fitness effects …

Comparative Context of Hard‐Tissue Sexual Dimorphism in Early Hominins: Implications for Alpha Taxonomy

KL Balolia, B Wood - Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News …, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Sexual dimorphism is one of the main factors confounding attempts to generate sound alpha
taxonomic hypotheses in the early hominin fossil record. To better understand how between …

Balancing act: an interdisciplinary exploration of trade-offs in reproducing females

CC Josefson, BM Fitzwater, RS Beltran… - Integrative and …, 2024‏ - academic.oup.com
Trade-offs resulting from the high demand of offspring production are a central focus of many
subdisciplines within the field of biology. Yet, despite the historical and current interest on …

Mechanical and morphometric approaches to body mass estimation in rhesus macaques: A test of skeletal variables

CM Turcotte, AM Choi, JK Spear… - American Journal of …, 2024‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Estimation of body mass from skeletal metrics can reveal important insights into
the paleobiology of archeological or fossil remains. The standard approach constructs …

History of health at Cayo Santiago—An investigation of environmental and genetic influences on the skeletal remains of the introduced Rhesus macaque (Macaca …

G Francis, Q Wang - American Journal of Primatology, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT The Cayo Santiago rhesus macaque colony is a renowned primate population
that has experienced significant natural and anthropogenic ecological variation in their 85 …

Size, Scaling, and Sexual Size Dimorphism in Wild South African Thick-Tailed Greater Galagos (Otolemur crassicaudatus)

SR Leigh, ML Sauther, FP Cuozzo… - International Journal of …, 2024‏ - Springer
The developmental bases of sexual size dimorphism vary across primates, with important
implications for understanding the evolution of dimorphism. Here, we explore adult sexual …

Elemental composition of primary lamellar bone differs between parous and nulliparous rhesus macaque females

P Cerrito, B Hu, JZ Goldstein, R Kalisher, SE Bailey… - Plos one, 2022‏ - journals.plos.org
Extracting life history information from mineralized hard tissues of extant and extinct species
is an ongoing challenge in evolutionary and conservation studies. Primary lamellar bone is …

Genetic Correlations Among Dental, Mandibular, and Postcranial Dimensions in Rhesus Macaques (Macaca mulatta)

AM Hardin - American Journal of Biological Anthropology, 2025‏ - Wiley Online Library
Objectives Tooth dimensions typically scale with mandibular and postcranial size in
primates, although the exact pattern of scaling varies. This study assesses whether …