Department of Anthropology

Michael Wilson

612-625-1376
Anthropology Department 395 HHH

Specialties

  • Primate behavior and ecology
  • Evolution of communication
  • Wildlife health and conservation

Educational Background

  • Ph.D.: Anthropology, Harvard University, 2001.
  • AB: Biological Sciences, University of Chicago, 1992.

Publications

  • Keele, B. F., Jones, J. H., Terio, K. A., Estes, J. D., Rudicell, R. S., Wilson, M. L., Li, Y., Learn, G. H., Beasley, T. M., Schumacher-Stankey, J., Wroblewski, E. E., Mosser, A., Raphael, J., Kamenya, S., Lonsdorf, E. V., Travis, D. A., Mlengeya, T., Kinsel, M. J., Else, J. G., Silvestri, G., Goodall, J., Sharp, P. M., Shaw, G. M., Pusey, A., E. & Hahn, B. H. 2009. Increased mortality and AIDS-like immunopathology in wild chimpanzees infected with SIVcpz. Nature, 460, 515-519.
  • Pusey, A. E., Murray, C., Wallauer, W. R., Wilson, M. L. & Wroblewski, E. 2008. Severe aggression among female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology, 29, 949-973.
  • Emery Thompson, M., Wilson, M. L., Gobbo, G. & Pusey, A. E. 2008. Hyperprogesteronemia in response to Vitex fischeri consumption in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). American Journal of Primatology, 70, 1064-1071.
  • Pusey, A. E., Wilson, M. L. & Collins, D. A. 2008. Human impacts, disease risk, and population dynamics in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology, 70, 738-744.
  • Williams, J. M., Lonsdorf, E. V., Wilson, M. L., Schumacher-Stankey, J., Goodall, J. & Pusey, A. E. 2008. Causes of death in the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology, 70, 766-777.
  • Liu, W., Worobey, M., Li, Y., Keele, B. F., Bibollet-Ruche, F., Guo, Y., Goepfert, P. A., Santiago, M. L., Ndjango, J.-B. N., Neel, C., Clifford, S. L., Sanz, C., Kamenya, S., Wilson, M. L., Pusey, A. E., Gross-Camp, N., Boesch, C., Smith, V., Zamma, K., Huffman, M. A., Mitani, J., Watts, D. P., Peeters, M., Shaw, G. M., Switzer, W. M., Sharp, P. M. & Hahn, B. H. 2008. Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees. PLoS Pathogen, 4, e1000097. Download
  • Wilson, M. L., Hauser, M. D. & Wrangham, R. W. 2007. Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) modify grouping and vocal behaviour in response to location-specific risk. Behaviour, 144, 1621-1653. Download
  • Wilson, M. L. 2007. Intergroup aggression in wild primates. Behaviour, 144, 1469-1471. Download
  • Pusey, A. E., Pintea, L. P., Wilson, M. L., Kamenya, S. & Goodall, J. 2007. The contribution of long-term research at Gombe National Park to chimpanzee conservation. Conservation Biology, 21, 623-634.
  • Takehisa, J., Kraus, M., Decker, J. M., Li, Y., Keele, B. F., Bibollet-Ruche, F., Zammit, K. P., Weng, Z., Santiago, M. L., Kamenya, S., Wilson, M. L., Pusey, A. E., Bailes, E., Sharp, P. M., Shaw, G. M. & Hahn, B. H. 2007. Generation of infectious molecular clones of simian immunodeficiency virus from fecal population sequences of wild-living chimpanzees. Journal of Virology, 81, 7463-7475.
  • Wrangham, R. W., Wilson, M. L. & Muller, M. N. 2006. Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans. Primates, 47, 14-26. Download
  • Wilson, M. L., Wallauer, W. & Pusey, A. E. 2004. New cases of intergroup violence among chimpanzees in Gombe National Park, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology, 25, 523-549. Download
  • Wrangham, R. W. & Wilson, M. L. 2004. Collective violence: Comparisons between youths and chimpanzees. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1036, 233-256. Download
  • Wilson, M. L. 2003. Environmental factors and aggression in non-human primates. In: Neurobiology of Aggression: Understanding and Preventing Violence (Ed. by Mattson, M.), pp. 167-190. Totowa, NJ: The Humana Press, Inc.
  • Wilson, M. L. & Wrangham, R. W. 2003. Intergroup relations in chimpanzees. Annual Review of Anthropology, 32, 363-392. Download
  • Wilson, M. L., Britton, N. F. & Franks, N. R. 2002. Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, Series B, 269, 1107-1112. Download
  • Wilson, M. L., Hauser, M. D. & Wrangham, R. W. 2001. Does participation in intergroup conflict depend on numerical assessment, range location, or rank for wild chimpanzees? Animal Behaviour, 61, 1203-1216. Download
  • Wrangham, R. W., Wilson, M. L., Hare, B. A. & Wolfe, N. D. 2000. Chimpanzee predation and the ecology of microbial exchange. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease, 12, 186-188. Download
  • Wilson, M. L. 1997. Monkey marriage and human utopias. In: Harvard Vision: Student Essays on Our Collective Future (Ed. by Ebert, B. L.), pp. 91-105. Cambridge, MA: The Dipylon Press. Download
  • Alberts, S. C., Altmann, J. & Wilson, M. L. 1996. Mate guarding constrains foraging activity of male baboons. Animal Behaviour, 51, 1269-1277. Download

Awards

  • McKnight Land-Grant Professorship, University of Minnesota, 2008 - 2010
  • National Science Foundation: "Socioecology of territorial behavior in chimpanzees", 2007 - 2009

Courses Taught

  • Anth 3002: Sex, Evolution and Behavior
  • Anth 1910W: Warfare and Human Evolution
  • EEB 4329: Primate Ecology and Social Behavior
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