Susan C. Alberts, Dean of Natural Sciences

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Office Location:	130 Science Drive, Rm 137, Duke Box 90338, Durham, NC 27708
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Education:

Ph.D. The University of Chicago 1992

M.A. University of California, Los Angeles 1987

B.A. Reed College 1983

Specialties:

Organismal Biology and Behavior
Evolution
Ecology and Population Biology

Research Interests: Behavorial ecology and ecological genetics of large mammals

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Charpentier, MJE; Van Horn, RC; Altmann, J; Alberts, SC, Paternal effects on offspring fitness in a multimale primate society., Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, vol. 105 no. 6 (February, 2008), pp. 1988-1992 [18250308], [doi] [abs].
2. Tung, J; Charpentier, MJE; Garfield, DA; Altmann, J; Alberts, SC, Genetic evidence reveals temporal change in hybridization patterns in a wild baboon population., Molecular ecology, vol. 17 no. 8 (April, 2008), pp. 1998-2011 [18363664], [doi] [abs].
3. Charpentier, MJE; Tung, J; Altmann, J; Alberts, SC, Age at maturity in wild baboons: genetic, environmental and demographic influences., Molecular ecology, vol. 17 no. 8 (April, 2008), pp. 2026-2040 [18346122], [doi] [abs].
4. Silk, JB; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J, Social bonds of female baboons enhance infant survival., Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 302 no. 5648 (November, 2003), pp. 1231-1234 [doi] [abs].
5. Archie, EA; Hollister-Smith, JA; Poole, JH; Lee, PC; Moss, CJ; Maldonado, JE; Fleischer, RC; Alberts, SC, Behavioural inbreeding avoidance in wild African elephants., Molecular ecology, vol. 16 no. 19 (October, 2007), pp. 4138-4148 [doi] [abs].
6. Alberts, SC; Watts, HE; Altmann, J, Queuing and queue jumping: long term patterns of reproductive skew among male savannah baboons, Animal Behaviour, vol. 65 no. 4 (2003), pp. 821-840 [doi] [abs].
7. Van Horn, RC; Buchan, JC; Altmann, J; Alberts, SC, Divided destinies: Group choice by female savannah baboons during social group fission, Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, vol. 61 no. 12 (October, 2007), pp. 1823-1837, Springer Nature [doi] [abs].
8. Smith, K; Alberts, SC; Altmann, J, Wild female baboons bias their social behaviour towards paternal half-sisters., Proceedings. Biological sciences, vol. 270 no. 1514 (March, 2003), pp. 503-510 [doi] [abs].
9. Hollister Smith, JA; Poole, JH; Archie, EA; Vance, EA; Georgiadis, NJ; Moss, CJ; Alberts, SC, Paternity success in wild African elephants, Animal Behaviour, vol. 74 no. 2 (2007), pp. 287-296 [doi] [abs].
10. Buchan, JC; Alberts, SC; Silk, JB; Altmann, J, True paternal care in a multi-male primate society., Nature, vol. 425 no. 6954 (September, 2003), pp. 179-181 [12968180], [doi] [abs].

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