| Michele A. Rasmussen, Associate Dean, Trinity College and Adjunct Assistant Professor
Please note: Michele has left the "Evolutionary Anthropology" group at Duke University; some info here might not be up to date. - Contact Info:
Office Location: | Academic Advising Center | Office Phone: | (919) 684-6217 | Email Address: | | Typical Courses Taught:
- BAA 49S, Lemur Behavior and Ecology
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- BAA 49S, FIRST-YEAR SEMINAR (TOP)
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- BAA 180S, CURRENT ISSUES (TOPICS)
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- Office Hours:
- By appointment
- Education:
Ph.D. | Duke University | 1999 |
A.B. | UCLA | 1992 |
- Specialties:
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Primate Ecology
Behavioral Ecology and Physiology
- Areas of Interest:
- primate activity cycles
strepsirrhine antipredator strategies male reproductive strategies behavioral ecology in Eulemur sp.
- Keywords:
- lemurs • cathemerality • predation • ecology
- Recent Publications
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- D.J. Curtis and M.A. Rasmussen, The evolution of cathemerality in primates and other mammals: a comparative and chronoecological approach,
Folia Primatologica, vol. 77 no. 1-2
(2006),
pp. 178-193
- M. A. Rasmussen, Seasonality in predation risk: varying activity periods in lemurs and other primates,
in Seasonality in Primates, edited by D.K. Brockman & C.P. van Schaik
(2005),
pp. 105-128, Cambridge University Press
- D.J. Curtis & M.A. Rasmussen, Cathemerality in lemurs,
Evolutionary Anthropology, vol. 11 no. S1
(2002),
pp. 83-86
- D.J. Overdorff & M.A. Rasmussen, Determinants of nighttime activity in “diurnal” lemurid primates,
in Creatures of the Dark: The Nocturnal Prosimians, edited by L.G. Alterman, G.A. Doyle & K. Izard
(1995),
pp. 61-74, Plenum Press
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