Eduardo Fernandez-Duque, PhD, is Professor of Anthropology and the School of the Environment at Yale University.
Born in Argentina, Dr. Fernandez-Duque completed his first degree in biology at the University of Buenos Aires before receiving his PhD in animal behavior at the University of California, Davis. He was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, the Zoological Society of San Diego and a faculty member at the University of Pennsylvania.
His research program, which bridges the fields of evolutionary anthropology, psychology and primatology, focuses on examining the behavioral, physiological, and ecological correlates of male-female relationships, pair-bonding, and parental care. Dr. Fernandez-Duque studies monogamous primates (titis, sakis and owl monkeys) at field sites in the Ecuadorian and Peruvian Amazon, the Argentinean Chaco, and National Primate Centers in the US.