Anne Pusey

Anne Pusey is the James B. Duke Professor and Chair of the Department of Evolutionary Anthropology at Duke University. Formerly, she was McKnight Distinguished University Professor of Ecology, Evolution and Behavior, at the University of Minnesota. Pusey is a behavioral ecologist with interests in competition, cooperation, and the evolution of social structure in animal societies. As director of the Jane Goodall Institute Research Center at Duke, she manages the archive of data from the long-term study of the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania, initiated by Jane Goodall in 1960, and conducts research on chimpanzee behavior. She also studied lions in Tanzania from 1978-1991.