Dr. Eric Sargis

Biography

Eric Sargis is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at Yale University, with secondary appointments in the Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology and the School of the Environment. He serves as Director of the Yale Institute for Biospheric Studies and Curator of Mammalogy at the Yale Peabody Museum. His research interests focus on the origin and early evolution of primates, utilizing integrative approaches involving evolutionary morphology, genetics, behavioral ecology, vocalizations, and biogeography. Dr. Sargis is currently engaged in collaborative work exploring the diversity of Old World monkeys and the implications of newly discovered guenon taxa from the Democratic Republic of Congo for conservation efforts related to threatened primates. His fieldwork spans several countries, including Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and various regions in the United States. He co-directs paleontological expeditions to Cretaceous and early Paleocene localities and has published extensively in the field, including an edited volume on mammalian evolutionary morphology and articles addressing the fossil record and behavior of early primates.

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