Maria Creighton  

Maria Creighton

As a formally trained conservationist and behavioral biologist my research interests bridge ideas from both these disciplines. One of my primary research interests is understanding why sociality evolves, and how social behaviors help animals to navigate environmental challenges. To answer these questions, I leverage individual, group, and species -level data on wild animal populations to determine how the social and physical environments interact in their effects on fitness-related outcomes at various evolutionary scales.

Email Address: maria.creighton@duke.edu
Web Page: https://www.mariacreighton.com/

Recent Publications   (More Publications)   (search)

  1. Creighton, MJA; Fan, O; Warutere, JK; Tung, J; Archie, EA; Alberts, SC, Group social conditions and environment predict foraging behavior in wild baboons., in Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (November, 2025) [doi] .
  2. Southworth, CA; Winans, JC; Gordon, JB; Learn, NH; Wilber, WA; Andreadis, C; Andreasen, G; Arandjelovic, M; Campbell, CR; Chege, MN; Creighton, MJA; Cromer, CM; Debray, R; Dickson, CC; Ferretti, P; George, EM; Gesquiere, LR; He, S; Hey, L; Jefferson, EE; Kulahci, IG; Lerch, BA; Nonnamaker, L; Rivas-González, I; Tuliozi, B; Webb, SE; Alberts, SC; Archie, EA; Tung, J, Demographic, behavioral, and ecological data from a long-term field study of wild baboons in Amboseli, Kenya., bioRxiv (October, 2025) [doi]  [abs].
  3. Creighton, MJA; Lerch, BA; Lange, EC; Silk, JB; Tung, J; Archie, EA; Alberts, SC, Reevaluating the relationship between female sociality and infant survival in wild baboons., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 122 no. 20 (May, 2025), pp. e2417378122 [doi]  [abs].
  4. Creighton, MJA; Lerch, B; Lange, E; Silk, J; Tung, J; Archie, E; Alberts, S, Re-evaluating the relationship between female social bonds and infant survival in wild baboons, in bioRxiv (2024) [doi] .
  5. Creighton, MJA; Nunn, CL, Explaining the primate extinction crisis: predictors of extinction risk and active threats., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 290 no. 2006 (September, 2023), pp. 20231441 [doi]  [abs].