{"id":276,"date":"2013-02-28T18:00:52","date_gmt":"2013-03-01T02:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/?p=276"},"modified":"2014-06-11T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2014-06-11T21:22:31","slug":"primate-faces-on-discover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/primate-faces-on-discover\/","title":{"rendered":"Primate faces on Discover"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uakari.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-277 alignleft\" style=\"border: 10px white;\" src=\"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/uakari.jpeg\" alt=\"uakari\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Why do primates have such colorful and distinct faces? We have been trying to answer this question in a broad comparative context by integrating data on the two most likely drivers of primate facial diversity: sociality and ecology. A major challenge during this research\u00a0has\u00a0been to quantify the facial patterns in a way that is comparable across hundreds of primates species. So, we devised \u00a0a metric, &#8220;facial complexity&#8221;, which represents how many colors there are in a primate&#8217;s face. Much to my own surprise, the evolution of facial complexity seems to be tightly linked to social group size and species sympatry. This is usually a positive relationship (Neotropical primates are the oddball), indicating that differences in the number of colors in primate faces provide cues that might be used for species and\/or individual recognition.<\/p>\n<p>This research has been getting a lot of media coverage (I guess\u00a0everyone\u00a0likes monkeys!), and a new article in Discover magazine\u00a0does\u00a0an excellent job at decribing our complexity scale. Check it out:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2013\/march\/7-monkey-face#.UTAFVPkS5sJ\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/discovermagazine.com\/2013\/march\/7-monkey-face#.UTAFVPkS5sJ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why do primates have such colorful and distinct faces? We have been trying to answer this question in a broad comparative context by integrating data on the two most likely drivers of primate facial diversity: sociality and ecology. A major challenge during this research\u00a0has\u00a0been to quantify the facial patterns in a way that is comparable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,36],"tags":[37,38,34,12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1314,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/1314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/faculty.washington.edu\/ssantana\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}