Jeanne Altmann

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Jeanne Altmann, born March 18, 1940, in New York City, is a Eugene Higgins Professor Emeritus of animal behavior and physiology at Princeton University. She is known for her research on the social behaviour of baboons, contributions to contemporary primate behavioural ecology, and for "revolutionizing" field-sampling methodology. Her paper in 1974 on the observational study of behaviour is a cornerstone for ecologists and has been cited over 20,000 times. She was also one of the first researchers to study primate mothers and the effects of genes on parenting and mating. She is a founder and director emerita of the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, a former Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society (2020).

Career

1950
Born
2013
Won ASN Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Conceptual Unification of the Biological Sciences
2022
Won BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award
Member of American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Trivia

•Place of birth: New York City
•Citizenship: United States
•Known as: evolutionary biologist
•Spouse: Stuart Altmann

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3/15/2023

Ecologist Jeanne Altmann and ethicist Peter Singer honored with Frontiers of Knowledge Awards

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2/2/2023

Jeanne Altmann, winner of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Ecology and Conservation Biology. (IMAGE)

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2/2/2023

The Frontiers of Knowledge Award goes to Susan Alberts, Jeanne Altmann and Marlene Zuk for establishing the key role of social behavior in animal evolution and its importance for species conservation - EurekAlert!

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11/17/2021

Primate Parental Relations: Baboon Mothers and Infants. Jeanne Altmann. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1980. xiv, 242 pp., illus. $17.50.

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3/29/2021

Curriculum Vitae: Jeanne Altmann’s ‘Twisty’ Path to Baboon Research

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5/11/2020

Altmann, Creager, visiting faculty member Nelson, elected to American Philosophical Society

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10/18/2016

STUART ALTMANN Obituary (2016) - Trenton, NJ