My PhD research focused on understanding the selective mechanisms underlying the maintenance of sexual dimorphism in body mass and canine size in rhesus macaques. I investigated:

1) the function of canine teeth and body size as signals and/or weapons,

2) how wound risk relates to male reproductive strategies, and

3) age-specific selection on male body mass.

I contributed to the description of a new gibbon species: Hoolock tianxing (also known as the Skywalker gibbon), and to a description of fossil hylobatid molars from the Pleistocene of southern China.

See my Google Scholar profile for a full list of publications.