Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque is Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment at Yale University. He is a cofounder of Fundacion ECO, a not-for-profit organization promoting education in northern Argentina, a corresponding member of the Argentine Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), a National Geographic Explorer and an Invited Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Formosa of Argentina and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito of Ecuador. Born in Argentina, Dr....See more

Dr. Eduardo Fernandez-Duque is Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment at Yale University. He is a cofounder of Fundacion ECO, a not-for-profit organization promoting education in northern Argentina, a corresponding member of the Argentine Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), a National Geographic Explorer and an Invited Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Formosa of Argentina and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito of Ecuador. Born in Argentina, Dr. Fernandez-Duque completed his first degree in biology at the University of Buenos Aires before receiving his PhD in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Zoological Society of San Diego and a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. His research program, which bridges the fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychology and primatology, focuses on examining the behavioral, physiological, and ecological correlates of male-female relationships, pair-bonding, and parental care. For 30 years he has studied pair living and monogamous primates, including the owl monkeys discussed in this volume, at field sites in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the Argentinean Chaco, and National Primate Centers in the US. He has published over 150 articles and has contributed to the training of more than 400 students from 20 different countries. See less