Eduardo Fernandez-Duque

Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment at Yale University. 

He is a cofounder of Fundación ECO, a not-for-profit organization promoting education in northern Argentina, a corresponding member of the Argentine Council for Science and Technology (CONICET), a National Geographic Explorer and an Invited Professor of the Universidad Nacional de Formosa of Argentina and the Universidad San Francisco de Quito of Ecuador. 

Born in Argentina, Dr. Fernandez-Duque completed his first degree in biology at the University of Buenos Aires before receiving his PhD in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Zoological Society of San Diego and a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania. 

His research program, which bridges the fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychology and primatology, focuses on examining the behavioral, physiological, and ecological correlates of male-female relationships, pair-bonding, and parental care. Dr. Fernandez-Duque studies monogamous primates (titis, sakis and owl monkeys) at field sites in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the Argentinean Chaco, and National Primate Centers in the US. 

He has published over 170 articles and chapters, an edited volume on owl monkeys and has contributed to the training of more than 400 students from 15 different countries. 

Dr. Fernandez-Duque is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the Kavli Foundation. He has been awarded The John P. McGovern Award Lecture in the Behavioral Sciences from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2021) and the “Premio Raíces,” (2017) by the Argentine National Ministry of Science and Technology to recognize his contributions to the development of science and technology through international cooperation.

SELECTED RECENT (2023-2020) PUBLICATIONS (full CV in personal website)

Fernandez-Duque, E. (2023). Owl Monkeys - Biology, Adaptive Radiation, and Behavioral Ecology of the Only Nocturnal Primate in the Americas. Developments in Primatology: Progress and Prospects Series, Springer Press. 25 chapters, 50-60 contributors

Fernandez-Duque, E., & de la Iglesia, H. (2023). Temporal Niche Plasticity of Owl Monkeys in the Gran Chaco of Argentina In E. Fernandez-Duque (Ed.), Owl Monkeys: Evolution, Behavioral Ecology and Conservation: Springer.

Fernandez-Duque, E., Juárez, C. P., & Defler, T. (2023). Morphology, Systematics and Taxonomy. In E. Fernandez-Duque (Ed.), Owl Monkeys: Evolution, Behavioral Ecology and Conservation: Springer.

Fernandez-Duque, E., Rotundo, M., Seltzer, J., Di Fiore, A., & Link, A. (2023). Past, Present and Future Use of Technology for Field Studies of Owl Monkeys. In E. Fernandez-Duque (Ed.), Owl Monkeys: Evolution, Behavioral Ecology and Conservation: Springer.

Ziegler, T., Tecot, S. R., Fernandez-Duque, E., Savage, A., & Snowdon, C. T. (2022). Nonhuman Primate Paternal Care: Species and Individual Differences in Behavior and Mechanisms, pp 213-238. In G. Bonzalez-Mariscal (Ed.), Patterns of Parental Behavior - From Animal Science to Comparative Ethology and Neuroscience: Springer.

Gao, H. et al. (2023). The landscape of tolerated genetic variation in humans and primates. Science, 380, eabn8197. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn8197 

Kuderna, L. F. K., et al (2023). A global catalog of whole-genome diversity from 233 primate species Science, 380(6648), 906-913. https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abn7829 

Agostini, I., Velazco, S. J. E., Insaurralde, J. A., Pavé, R., Holzmann, I., Brividoro, M., … Bitetti, M. S. D. (2022). Prioritizing areas for primate conservation in Argentina. Diversity, 14(11), 982. doi:https://doi.org/10.3390/xxxxx

Casiraghi, L., Spiousas, I., Dunster, G., McGlothlen, K., Fernandez-Duque, E., Valeggia, C., & de la Iglesia, H. (2021). Moonstruck sleep: Synchronization of Human Sleep with the Moon Cycle under Natural Conditions. Science Advances 7, eabe0465. 

Valeggia, C. R., & Fernandez-Duque, E. (2021). Moving Biological Anthropology Research beyond P <0.05. Am J Phys Anthropol, 177(2), 193-195. doi:10.1002/ajpa.24444

Fernandez-Duque, E., M. Huck, S. Van Belle and A. Di Fiore (2020). The evolution of pair-living, sexual monogamy, and cooperative infant care: Insights from research on wild owl monkeys, titi monkeys, sakis, and tamarins. Yearbook of Physical Anthropology: 1-56.