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About Our Lab The Dominy Lab studies aspects of primate foraging ecology. Recent and current projects include: Primate visual ecology Material properties of foods Orangutan foraging behavior Tubers and cooking in human evolution Molecular evolution of salivary amylase genes > Read more about our lab

In addition, we do collaborative work on the evolution of opsin genes with Dr. Maureen Neitz, Medical College of Wisconsin, examining the following:

· Color vision of muriquis, colugos, and Samoan flying foxes

The guiding principle of our lab is that the species and methods used must serve a central evolutionary question. Methods include: behavioral studies, spectral measurements of foods and environments, material testing, nutritional analyses, electron and light microscopy, mathematical modeling, and isotopic mass spectrometry (in collaboration with Paul Koch). Primates have been a strong focus, but euarchontans and other closely related mammals have also been examined.