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James Higham

Title: Professor of Anthropology

Institution: NYU

Discipline: Social Sciences

Appearances: 1

Notable: Director of the Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution group; faculty member of the New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology

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Biography

James Higham is a biological anthropologist who studies sexual selection and communication in primates, exploring signaling behavior from genetic, neuroendocrine, behavioral, and morphological perspectives. He directs the Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution group, with ongoing fieldwork projects on communication systems in macaques, guenons, and baboons in Nigeria, Puerto Rico, and Indonesia. His research integrates game theoretic signaling models with computational modeling of primate perception.

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