LMarchant

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Linda Marchant is the founding and current Chair of the Department of Anthropology at Miami University, Oxford, OH. She is a Professor of Biological Anthropology and joined Miami’s faculty in 1989. Her research interests include behavioral primatology, laterality of function (handedness), African apes, and visual anthropology. She is the author of more than 50 book chapters and journals articles and co-edited Behavioural Diversity in Chimpanzees and Bonobos (Cambridge University Press, 2002) and Great Ape Societies (Cambridge University Press, 1996).  Her video programs on chimpanzee behavior have premiered at a Cold Spring Harbor Symposium on Human Evolution, a Smithsonian Institution Symposium on the Primate Mind, and a Wenner-Gren Symposium on Early Human Diet. She won the Best Short Film - Chimpanzee Grooming as Social Custom, Mahale Mountains National Park, Tanzania, Society for Visual Anthropology, American Anthropological Association (2000); and earned the Outstanding Professor Award, Associated Student Government, Miami University (2004). She has been a Visiting Research Fellow, Centre for Social Learning and Cognitive Evolution, University of St. Andrew (2001), and Visiting Fellow, Leverhulme Centre for Human Evolutionary Studies, Department of Biological Anthropology, University of Cambridge, and Research Associate, Darwin College, University of Cambridge (2009-2010).     

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http://www.units.muohio.edu/anthropology/faculty/index.php?page=Dr_Linda_Marchant&id=2

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