David Wood

David Wood is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology interested in the factors influencing the evolution of primate social organization, specifically the development and maintenance of monogamy in the owl monkeys living in the Gran Chaco eco-region in northern Argentina. He studied Anthropology and Psychology at University of Illinois where he worked in Dr. Rebecca Stumpf’s behavioral endocrinology lab creating a developmental trajectory of urinary cortisol in pre-dispersed female chimpanzees. After graduation he worked for a year at the Lomas Barbudal Monkey Project in Guanacaste Costa Rica run by Dr. Susan Perry collecting field data on white-faced capuchin behavior and social interactions.