Michelle Rodrigues
Michelle A. Rodrigues is an anthropologically-trained primatologist and a queer, cisgender Indian-American woman living in the United States of America. She is a member of the IUCN Primate Specialist Group Section on Human-Primate Interactions, and has experience conducting field primatological research in Central America and Africa, as well as captive primate research in the USA.
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Quantum Chimpanzees: Do Watched Primates Change Their Behavior?
In particle physics, the mere act of looking at an electron changes its direction of movement. Could observing primates also change the outcome of what is observed?
Can Monkeys Be Gay? What Homosexual Behavior in Primates Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Human Sexuality
Recent observations of homosexual behavior in male spider monkeys adds to our knowledge of these behaviors and may help us answer questions about the evolutionary functions homosexual behaviors may play.
The Obstetrical Dilemma, Dismantled: Human Childbirth is Not a Dilemma
Rather than being evicted from the womb before their heads are too big, a new hypothesis argues that human babies are born when their growth rates become too costly for their mothers’ metabolism to support.
Sex Roles Are Flexible in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. What Does That Say About Human Evolution?
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos are far more similar in their gender roles than previously thought. In order to understand the range of complexity in our evolutionary cousins’ social lives, perhaps we first need to recognize the range of complexity that exists in our own.
Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Chimpanzees Challenge Our Gendered Biases About Evolution
The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for so long?
The Science of Sex Differences Is Complicated (and Biased)
If you only know a little bit about human biology, it might sound simple. XX or XY? Ovaries or testicles? Estrogen or testosterone? But in reality, there’s a wider range of developmental possibilities.
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