Jonathan Pertile

I am a Ph.D. student in the Yale Anthropology department and a member of the Owl Monkey Project in Formosa, Argentina. As an evolutionary anthropologist and primatologist, I have researched the endocrinology and energetics of parental care in lemurs and owl monkeys, and, more recently, how primates survive in and adapt to naturally fragmented and changing environments. My work integrates methods from genomics, landscape ecology, morphology, and behavioral ecology. I am also passionate about improving the application of statistical methods in anthropology and primatology, with a particular emphasis on improving research design and causal inference within the field.