Michelle Rodrigues
is a Postdoctoral Fellow with the Beckman Institute and the Department of Anthropology at University of Illinois.
Michelle A. Rodrigues is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Social and Cultural Sciences at Marquette University.
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Michelle Rodrigues
September 15, 2021
Same-Sex Sexual Behavior in Chimpanzees Challenge Our Gendered Biases About Evolution
The big question is, how did we manage to miss these behaviors in chimpanzees for so long?
September 27, 2018
The Obstetrical Dilemma, Dismantled: Human Childbirth is Not a Dilemma
Rather than being evicted from the womb before their heads are too big, a new hypothesis argues that human babies are born when their growth rates become too costly for their mothers’ metabolism to support.
July 9, 2018
Sex Roles Are Flexible in Chimpanzees and Bonobos. What Does That Say About Human Evolution?
A new study shows that chimpanzees and bonobos are far more similar in their gender roles than previously thought. In order to understand the range of complexity in our evolutionary cousins’ social lives, perhaps we first need to recognize the range of complexity that exists in our own.
June 12, 2018
Can Monkeys Be Gay? What Homosexual Behavior in Primates Can Tell Us About the Evolution of Human Sexuality
Recent observations of homosexual behavior in male spider monkeys adds to our knowledge of these behaviors and may help us answer questions about the evolutionary functions homosexual behaviors may play.
