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SUMMARY:Beauty &amp\; Attraction: in the eyes of the beholder - Professor 
 Jeanne Altmann\, Princeton University
DTSTART:20110218T173000Z
DTEND:20110218T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Biography\n\nJeanne Altmann is a behavioral ecologist with foc
 us on the life-history of natural populations of long-lived and highly soc
 ial primates. One major research effort has been development of widely app
 licable non-invasive and non-manipulative techniques for data collection a
 nd their use. These techniques started with behavior and demography\; with
  colleagues\, they have expanded to observational measures of health and a
 ging and to measures of DNA and steroid hormones\, enabling the researcher
 s to ‘get under the skin’ without disturbing either behavior or sensit
 ive physiological processes. Her research questions have focused on source
 s and life history consequences of behavioral differences--across lifetime
 s\, individuals\, families\, and groups or populations.  This empirical re
 search involves almost daily data collection on the Amboseli population of
  baboons. The Amboseli Baboon Research Project database is now four-decade
 s and seven-generations deep (website at www.princeton.edu/~baboon). Altma
 nn’s data preservation and sharing efforts include involvement in develo
 pment of the Integrated Primate Biomaterials and Information Resource (IPB
 IR) and participation in a comparative Primate Life History Database group
  (PLHD)\, and recent participation in a US national workshop on digital da
 ta preservation and access in Anthropology. Altmann has served on various 
 external advisory boards\, currently including the Wisconsin National Prim
 ate Research Center\, the Max-Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropolo
 gy in Leipzig\, and the Institute of Primate Research of the National Muse
 ums of Kenya. \n\nJeanne Altmann received her first degree in mathematics 
 from the University of Alberta\, Canada\, an MAT in mathematics teaching f
 rom Emory University\, and a PhD in behavioral science from The University
  of Chicago.  She was previously Professor and Chair of the Committee on E
 volutionary Biology at the University of Chicago and is currently Eugene H
 iggins Professor Emeritus in Princeton’s Department of Ecology and Evolu
 tionary Biology\, a Faculty Associate in Princeton’s Office of Populatio
 n Research and the Princeton Environmental Institute\, and an Honorary Lec
 turer at the University of Nairobi\, Kenya.  She is a member of the US Nat
 ional Academy of Sciences.\n\n\nAbstract\n\nWhat is beautiful and therefor
 e attractive\, to you\, to me\, to a baboon? Is what we consider attractiv
 e in animals the same as what they consider attractive in each other? This
  lecture will explore some of the characteristics that attract baboons\, h
 ow these characteristics are similar or different from those we focus on\,
  and how they vary among individuals.
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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