Overview
Matthew Zipple is a Ph.D. candidate in biology at Duke University. His research explores how social relationships and behavior influence offspring survival, focusing on primates. At Cornell, he will build and test a model which connects maternal survival and offspring fitness in shaping the evolution of long lives, not just for humans and other primates, but for all animals, working with H. Kern Reeve, professor of neurobiology and behavior, and Michael Sheehan, the Nancy and Peter Meinig Family Investigator in the Life Sciences.
In the news
- In lab mice rehomed to fields, anxiety is reversed
- Small wins in early life lead to inequality in adulthood
- Researchers assess whether animals feel emotion
- Mothers’ care is central factor in animal, human longevity
- Mothers live longer as child mortality declines
- Klarman Fellow tracks impact of social bonds on animal health
