MEDIA COVERAGE
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Mar 2022
“The secret to great hair? Evolution” – SYFY Wire
https://www.syfy.com/syfy-wire/lemurs-are-showing-us-how-human-hair-might-have-evolved
Mar 2022
“New study sheds light on human hair evolution” - UMass News & Media Relations; Front page of www.umass.edu
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/new-study-sheds-light-early-human-hair-evolution
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Jul 2021
Quoted in “The Hairy Origins of Our Sweat Glands” - by Sarah Everts in Science Friday
https://www.sciencefriday.com/articles/sweat-glands-evolution/
Oct 2020
Quoted in “Fact-checking On The Rocks’ dubious dad wisdom” – by Sydney Gore in A24 Films Notes
https://a24films.com/notes/2020/10/fact-checking-on-the-rocks-dubious-dad-wisdom
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Aug 2020
“Chimp off the old block: For chimpanzees, grey hair is not a sign of ageing” – The Focus
Jul 2020
“A Chimp's Gray Hair Doesn't Have Much to Do With Age” – Treehugger
Jul 2020
“Les cheveux gris ne sont pas un signe de vieillissement chez les chimpanzés” (Gray hair is not a sign of aging in chimpanzees) – Yahoo News France
https://fr.news.yahoo.com/cheveux-gris-ne-signe-vieillissement-100000651.html
Jul 2020
“Chimpansee met veel grijze haren hoeft niet per se heel oud te zijn” (Chimpanzees with a lot of gray hair do not necessarily have to be very old) – Scientias, The Netherlands
https://www.scientias.nl/chimpansee-met-veel-grijze-haren-hoeft-niet-per-se-heel-oud-te-zijn/
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Jan 2020
“Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future” – National Science Foundation Research News
https://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299788&org=NSF&from=news
Dec 2019
“New research finds the ‘ancient past’ matters as much as present climate and human impacts in explaining global biodiversity patterns” - UMass News & Media Relations; Front page of www.umass.edu
https://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/new-research-finds-%E2%80%98ancient-past%E2%80%99-matters
Dec 2019
“Connecting the prehistoric past to the global future” - EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2019-12/asu-ctp121319.php
Jul 2019
Quoted in and research featured in “Cool down with the slick science of sweat” - by Katherine Wu in NOVA PBS
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/article/science-of-sweat/
Sep 2018
Quoted in “Human gene mutation may have paved the way for long-distance running” – by Meilan Solly in Smithsonian
Sep 2018
Quoted in “This broken gene may have turned our ancestors into marathoners—and helped humans conquer the world” – by Elizabeth Pennisi in Science
Summer 2018
“Gonna make you sweat” - UMass, the Magazine of the University of Massachusetts Amherst
http://www.umass.edu/magazine/summer-2018/inquiring-minds
Mar 2018
“New study from UMass Amherst anthropologists examines the evolution of mammalian perspiration” - UMass News & Media Relations; Front page of www.umass.edu
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/new-study-umass-amherst-anthropologist-0
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Dec 2017
“Kamilar appointed Editor-in-Chief of Evolutionary Anthropology” - Inside UMass
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/kamilar-appointed-editor-chief
Nov 2016
“New anthropology findings at UMass” - The Recorder
http://www.recorder.com/UMass-anthro-research-5388379
Oct 2016
“Anthropologist finds past climates more important to species’ distribution than modern climate” – Inside UMass
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/new-study-umass-amherst-anthropologist
Oct 2016
“Past climate linked to mammal communities in Africa today” – Archaeology News Network
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2016/10/past-climate-linked-to-mammal.html
Oct 2016
“Past climate linked to mammal communities today” - EurekAlert!
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-10/asu-pcl100316.php
Oct 2016
“Past climate, not current changes, key to some mammal communities” – ClimateWire
http://www.eenews.net/climatewire/2016/10/05/stories/1060043850
Dec 2013
“Humans and chimps share cultural roots, study says” – Los Angeles Times
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Dec 2013
“Researchers find that cultural evolution is similar for humans and chimpanzees” – Arizona State University News
https://asunews.asu.edu/20131210-cultural-evolution
Dec 2013
“Kultur: Wissen verbreitet sich bei Schimpanse und Mensch gleich” (Culture: knowledge spreads equally in chimpanzees and humans) - Der Spiegel Online
Dec 2013
“Kultur gibt's auch im Affenreich” (Culture is also in the ape kingdom) – German Public Broadcasting WDR5 Leonardo
Dec 2013
“Alle origini della capacità di evoluzione culturale” (The origins of the capacity of cultural evolution) - Scientific American Italian Edition
Oct 2013
Quoted in “Afraid of snakes? Your pulvinar may be to blame” – by Carl Zimmer in the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/31/science/afraid-of-snakes-your-pulvinar-may-be-to-blame.html
Feb 2013
“The nocturnal mammalian eye” – Academic Minute on Northeast Public Radio
http://www.wamc.org/post/dr-chris-kirk-university-texas-austin-nocturnal-mammalian-eye
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Dec 2012
“Did trichromatic color vision and red hair color co-evolve in primates?” – Featured article on the American Society of Primatologists website
Oct 2012
“New study shows effects of prehistoric nocturnal life on mammalian vision” – Science Daily
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121031161025.htm
Feb 2012
“The debate over dinosaur sight” – Smithsonian Magazine’s Dinosaur Tracking Blog
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/02/the-debate-over-dinosaur-sight/
Aug 2011
Quoted in “The cultured chimpanzees” – by Gayathri Vaidyanathan in Nature
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/110817/full/476266a.html
Jun 2011
“Snake-spotting theory brings primate vision into focus” – Smithsonian Magazine, Surprising Science Blog
Mar 2011
“Can you see the monkey up there” - Dr. Jerry Coyne’s (U. Chicago) blog associated with his book, Why Evolution is True
http://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/03/12/can-you-see-that-monkey-up-there/
Dec 2008
“More walking leads to more offspring” - United Press International
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/12/24/More-walking-leads-to-more-offspring/UPI-86351230159944/
Dec 2008
“Increased daily travel in animals leads to more offspring” - Newswise