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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

We're hiring 2 PhD's in the MAPLE lab at UMontreal. Come join the lab in Canada!

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Julie Teichroeb @teichroeb-lab.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

Delighted to say that my and Amanda Melin's special issue of the American Journal of Primatology on primatology in Canada is now complete with 18 papers(!!) and the Introduction has just been published! Co-authored by Linda Fedigan. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....

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A History of Primatology in Canada and an Introduction to the Special Issue

Primatological research by anthropologists and evolutionary biologists based in Canada has expanded greatly since its inception ca. 60 years ago. The research foci of the founding primatologists were...

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Lots of fun talking lemur genomics at Concordia University for the Montreal Genomics series last night! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

3. Many lemurs have really high genomic diversity when compared to most other primates. We found a pervasive pattern of interspecific gene flow among those species that likely occurred during Pleistocene forest fragmentation and reconnection #RetreatDispersal

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

2. Species in the same ecogeographic regions have similar patterns of demographic history. The ecological demands of Madagascar’s wet and dry forest ecosystems have shaped the population size and genomic diversity of many species of lemurs throughout the Pleistocene.

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

1. Dramatic recent population declines in lemurs are consistent with the timing of human population expansion across Madagascar during the last 2000 years and a shift toward the consumption of smaller lemurs following the extinction of other larger bodied species. #SubsistenceShiftHypothesis

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Joseph Orkin @knomascus.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Neglected primates no more! 162 lemur genomes from 50 species in our latest paper: Ecological and anthropogenic effects on the genomic diversity of lemurs in Madagascar! 1 of 2 lemur evolution papers in Jan25 @natureecoevo.bsky.social 3 big takeaways below! rdcu.be/d4XWV @tmarquesbonet.bsky.social

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