Nelson Ting: “Identifying Conservation Priorities and the Effects of Environmental Change for America’s Most Threatened Primates”

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Nelson Ting is an anthropologist and evolutionary biologist who uses genetics to address a wide variety of questions regarding the ecology, evolution, and behavior of our closest relatives – the non-human primates.

The current focus of his research program is understanding how evolutionary processes have shaped patterns of modern primate biological diversity. This includes investigating the effects of environmental change, both natural and anthropogenic, on primate communities.

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