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I am doing my doctoral studies in physical anthropology at New York University, primarily in behavioral ecology and evolution. My Ph.D. topic involves issues of spacial representation, coordinated group movement and vocal communication in primates. I am currently working with woolly monkeys (Lagothrix poeppigii) at the Tiputini Biodiversity Station (TBS), in the Ecuadorian Amazon. I am also working in platyrrhine phylogenetic relationships at the molecular anthropology lab at NYU. In a broader perspective, I am interested in primate comparative socioecology and cognition, evolutionary neurobiology, primate and mammalian evolution, biogeography and systematics. I also have a twisted-minded obsession with exploring methodological space. Recurrent manias include issues in phylogenetic methods, ecological census techniques, resource measurement and phenological assessment. I'm also deliriously excited about applying computer simulation modelling in behavioral ecology and evolution.