Elaine E. Guevara, Lecturer

Research interests: Aging and life history, sensory ecology, epigenetics, conservation, lemurs

Please note: Elaine has left the "Evolutionary Anthropology" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date.

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Web Page:	http://www.elaineguevara.com

Teaching (Spring 2024):

• EVANTH 101.01, INTRO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 111, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• EVANTH 101D.001, INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 111, TuTh 03:05 PM-04:20 PM

• EVANTH 101D.01D, INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 119, W 10:20 AM-11:10 AM

• EVANTH 101D.02D, INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 119, W 12:00 PM-12:50 PM

• EVANTH 101D.03D, INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 119, W 01:40 PM-02:30 PM

• EVANTH 101D.04D, INTRO TO EVOLUTIONARY ANTHRO Synopsis

  Bio Sci 119, W 03:20 PM-04:10 PM

• EVANTH 315S.01, HUMAN BIOLOGICAL VARIATION Synopsis

  Bio Sci 041, W 03:05 PM-05:35 PM

• EVANTH 316S.01, EVOLUTION OF HUMAN LIFESPAN Synopsis

  Bio Sci 041, WF 01:25 PM-02:40 PM

Education:

Ph.D.

Yale University

2018

Keywords:

Aging • Ecology • Epigenetics • Genomics • Human evolution • Primatology

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

1. Guevara, E; Gopalan, S; Massey, DJ; Adegboyega, M; Zhou, W; Solis, A; Anaya, AD; Churchill, SE; Feldblum, J; Lawler, RR, Getting it right: Teaching undergraduate biology to undermine racial essentialism., Biology Methods and Protocols, vol. 8 no. 1 (January, 2023), pp. bpad032, Oxford University Press (OUP) [doi]  [abs]
2. Guevara, EE; Hopkins, WD; Hof, PR; Ely, JJ; Bradley, BJ; Sherwood, CC, Epigenetic ageing of the prefrontal cortex and cerebellum in humans and chimpanzees., Epigenetics, vol. 17 no. 12 (December, 2022), pp. 1774-1785 [doi]  [abs]
3. Guevara, EE; Greene, LK; Blanco, MB; Farmer, C; Ranaivonasy, J; Ratsirarson, J; Mahefarisoa, KL; Rajaonarivelo, T; Rakotondrainibe, HH; Junge, RE; Williams, CV; Rambeloson, E; Rasoanaivo, HA; Rahalinarivo, V; Andrianandrianina, LH; Clayton, JB; Rothman, RS; Lawler, RR; Bradley, BJ; Yoder, AD, Molecular adaptation to folivory and the conservation implications for Madagascar’s lemurs (July, 2021) [doi]  [abs]
4. Guevara, EE; Hopkins, WD; Hof, PR; Ely, JJ; Bradley, BJ; Sherwood, CC, Comparative analysis reveals distinctive epigenetic features of the human cerebellum., Plos Genetics, vol. 17 no. 5 (May, 2021), pp. e1009506 [doi]  [abs]
5. Guevara, EE; Webster, TH; Lawler, RR; Bradley, BJ; Greene, LK; Ranaivonasy, J; Ratsirarson, J; Harris, RA; Liu, Y; Murali, S; Raveendran, M; Hughes, DST; Muzny, DM; Yoder, AD; Worley, KC; Rogers, J, Comparative genomic analysis of sifakas (Propithecus) reveals selection for folivory and high heterozygosity despite endangered status., Science Advances, vol. 7 no. 17 (April, 2021), pp. eabd2274 [doi]  [abs]