Dr. Emily Boeving
Adjunct Instructor of Anthropology
Education Background
Ph.D. Florida International University
M.Sc. Durham University (UK)
B.S. Ouachita Baptist University
Specialty Fields
Primatology
Social Network Analytics
Primate Social Systems
Social Cognition
Problem Solving
Current Focus
Ontogeny and phylogeny of bonobo, chimpanzee, and spider monkey social systems, networks, and ecology
Boeving, E. R., Rodrigues, M. A., & Nelson, E. L. (2020). Network analysis as a tool to understand social development in spider monkeys. American Journal of Primatology, 82(11), e23182.
Boeving, E.R. & Nelson, E.L. (2018). Social risk dissociates social network structure across lateralized behaviors. Symmetry, 10(9), 390. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/sym10090390
Boeving, E.R., Belnap, S.C., & Nelson, E.L. (2017, March). Embraces are lateralized in spider monkeys (Ateles fusciceps rufiventris). American Journal of Primatology, 79:e22654.
Boeving, E.R., Lacreuse, A., Hopkins, W.D., Phillips, K.A., Novak, M.A., & Nelson, E.L. (2015). Handedness influences intermanual transfer in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) but not rhesus monkeys (Macaca mulatta). Experimental Brain Research, 233, 829-837.