Evolutionary origins and proximate mechanisms of parenting in complex social systems

这项授予林肯公园动物园(LPZ)的奖学金提供了一个独特的场所，让公众参与到研究和保护中来。该项目还促进了学校的保护和科学教育。他在小学做了演讲，重点讲述了类人猿如何帮助我们理解人类行为，以及类人猿在野外面临的威胁以及如何帮助。这项研究以女性和代表性不足的少数族裔为主，为学生在观看演示文稿时提供了明显的榜样。作为一名实地科学家，该研究员帮助学生了解科学探究的广度，这是早期科学教育的重要组成部分。这项研究还支持对卢旺达国民进行科学培训和保护教育，他们担任实验室人员和研究助理。他们的培训使他们有资格适应发展中国家的新兴科学劳动力。许多卢旺达人没有意识到大猩猩及其生态系统是不同寻常的，具有很高的价值。员工很快就会理解保护这一资源的重要性，并教育社区中的其他人。调查结果经常出现在LPZ的各种公共外展领域，并与LPZ的各级教育倡议相结合。通过Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International的社交媒体资源，每年也有50万人获得成果。这两个场所帮助公众更好地了解灵长类生理和行为对理解人类行为的影响，不同科学研究领域之间的联系，以及行为科学的价值。该项目分析了从卢旺达卡里奥克研究中心监测的山地大猩猩种群中非侵入性收集的荷尔蒙数据。荷尔蒙结果与行为和遗传数据相结合，以检验关于影响山地大猩猩雄性-未成熟关系的近距离因素的假说。山地大猩猩是一种具有社会灵活性的大猩猩。目前对男性养育的荷尔蒙相关性的进化起源的理解来自于一小群社会上一夫一妻制的物种。科学文献中很少有关于多男性社会制度中这种关系的荷尔蒙调节的论文，关于男性养育行为的荷尔蒙相关性的研究得出了不同的结论。该研究项目是跨学科的，包括行为科学、遗传学和内分泌学。所有工作都在林肯公园动物园的戴维流行病学和内分泌学中心进行。

This Fellowship award to Lincoln Park Zoo (LPZ) provides a unique venue to engage the public in research and conservation. The project also facilitates conservation and science education in schools. The Fellow gives talks at grade schools, focusing on how apes help us understand human behavior, plus threats apes face in the wild and how to help. This research is dominated by women and underrepresented minorities, providing students with visible role models as they view presentations. As a field scientist the Fellow helps students understand the breadth of scientific inquiry, an important component of early science education. This research also supports scientific training and conservation education of Rwandan nationals, who work as lab personnel and research assistants. Their training qualifies them for the emerging scientific workforce in a developing country. Many Rwandans do not realize the gorillas and their ecosystem are unusual and highly valuable. Employees quickly come to understand the importance of protecting this resource, and educate others in the community. Findings are regularly featured in LPZ's diverse public outreach domains and integrated with LPZ's education initiatives at all levels. Results also reach 500,000 per year people via Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International's social media resources. These two venues help the public better understand the implications primate physiology and behavior have for understanding human behavior, connections between different fields of scientific inquiry, and the value of behavioral sciences. This project analyzes non-invasively collected hormonal data from the mountain gorilla population monitored by the Karioke Research Center in Rwanda. Hormone results are integrated with behavioral and genetic data to test hypotheses about the proximate factors affecting male-immature relationships in mountain gorillas, a socially flexible great ape. Current understanding of evolutionary origins of the hormonal correlates of male parenting comes from a small group of socially monogamous species. The scientific literature has few papers on hormonal regulation of such relationships in multi-male social systems, and studies about the hormonal correlates of male parenting behaviors come to different conclusions. The research program is interdisciplinary, incorporating behavioral sciences, genetics, and endocrinology. All work takes place at the Lincoln Park Zoo's Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology.