Related Experiment Video
Updated: Jun 11, 2026

Following the Dynamics of Structural Variants in Experimentally Evolved Populations
Published on: February 3, 2023
Evolutionary genetics in wild primates: combining genetic approaches with field studies of natural populations
Jenny Tung1, Susan C Alberts, Gregory A Wray
1Department of Biology, Duke University, P.O. Box 90338, Durham NC 27708, USA. jtung@uchicago.edu
Abstract:
Ecological and evolutionary studies of wild primates hold important keys to understanding both the shared characteristics of primate biology and the genetic and phenotypic differences that make specific lineages, including our own, unique. Although complementary genetic research on nonhuman primates has long been of interest, recent technological and methodological advances now enable functional and population genetic studies in an unprecedented manner. In the past several years, novel genetic data sets have revealed new information about the demographic history of primate populations and the genetics of adaptively important traits. In combination with the rich history of behavioral, ecological, and physiological work on natural primate populations, genetic approaches promise to provide a compelling picture of primate evolution in the past and in the present day.
Related Concept Videos
Evolutionary Relationships through Genome Comparisons
Evolutionary Psychology
What is Population Genetics?
Genetics of Speciation
Gene Evolution - Fast or Slow?
In contrast, regions which code...
Gene Evolution - Fast or Slow?
In contrast, regions which code...

