As Editor
Higham, J.P. & Roney, J. (Eds). 2017. Field endocrinology of nonhuman primates and humans. Hormones and Behavior 91.
Higham, J.P. & Hebets, E.A. (Eds). 2013. Multimodal communication. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67 (9)
Higham, J.P. & Semple, S. (Eds). 2013. Primate signals. American Journal of Primatology 75 (7)
Higham, J.P. (Ed). 2009. Primate coloration: measurement, mechanisms and function. International Journal of Primatology 30 (6)
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
Siracusa, E.R., Pereira, A.S., Bohr Brask, J., Negron-Del Valle, J., Phillips, D., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt, M.L., Higham, J.P., Snyder-Mackler, N. & Brent, L.J.N. Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. In Press
Siracusa, E.R., Pereira, A.S., Bohr Brask, J., Negron-Del Valle, J., Phillips, D., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Platt, M.L., Higham, J.P., Snyder-Mackler, N. & Brent, L.J.N. (2023). Ageing in a collective: the impact of ageing individuals on social network structure. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 378: 20220061 https://doi.org/10.1098%2Frstb.2022.0061
Higham, J.P. 2022. Evolution: Kin selection spreads eLife 11:e84142. https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.84142
Siracusa, E.R., Negrón-Del Valle, J.E., Phillips, D., Platt, M.L., Higham, J.P., Snyder-Mackler, N., & Brent, L.J.N. 2022. Within-individual changes reveal increasing social selectivity with age in rhesus macaques. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA, 119(49): e2209180119 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2209180119
Moreira, L.A.A., Watsa, M., Erkenswick, G., Higham, J.P. & Melin, A.D. 2022. Evaluating genital skin color varition as a putative sexual signal in wild populations of saddleback (Leontocebus weddelli) and emperor (Saguinus imperator) tamarins. American Journal of Primatology, e23456 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23456
Colby, A.E., DeCasien, A.R., Cooper, E.B. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Greater variability in rhesus macaque (Macaca mulatta) endocranial volume among males than females. Proceedings of the Royal Society B, 289: 20220728. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0728
Chiou, K.L., DeCasien, A.R., Rees, K.P, Testard, C., Spurrell, C.H., Gogate, A.A., Pliner, H.A., Tremblay, S., Mercer, A., Whalen, C.J., Negrón-Del Valle, J.E., Janiak, M.C., Bauman Surratt, S.E., González, O., Compo, N.R., Stock, M.K., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Martínez, M.I., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Wilson, M.A., Melin, A.D., Antón, S.C., Walker, C.S., Sallet, J., Newbern, J.M., Starita, L.M., Shendure, J., Higham, J.P., Brent, L.J.N., Montague, M.J., Platt, M.L., & Snyder-Mackler, N. 2022. Multiregion transcriptomic profiling of the primate brain reveals signatures of aging and the social environment. Nature Neuroscience, 25:1714–1723. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41593-022-01197-0
Pavez-Fox, M.A., Kimock, C.M., Rivera-Barreto, N., Negrón-Del Valle, J.E., Phillips, D., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Higham, J.P., Siracusa, E.R. & Brent, L.J.N. 2022. Reduced injury risk links sociality to survival in a group-living primate. iScience 105454
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2022.105454
Petersen, R.M., Bergey, C.M., Roos, C. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Relationship between genome-wide and MHC class I and II genetic diversity and complementarity in a nonhuman primate. Ecology and Evolution 12: e9346. https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.9346
Cooper, E.B., Watowich, M.M., Beeby, N., Whalen, C., Montague, M.J., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., & Higham, J.P. 2022. Concentrations of urinary neopterin, but not suPAR, positively correlate with age in rhesus macaques. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, 10: 1007052 https://doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2022.1007052
Schneider-Crease, I., Weyher, A.H., Mubemba, B., Kamilar, J.M., Petersdorf, M., & Chiou, K.L. 2022. Stronger maternal social relationships and higher rank are associated with accelerated infant maturation in Kinda baboons. Animal Behaviour 189: 47-57.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.04.011
Cooper, E.B., Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Singh, M., Sengupta, A., Khatiwada, S., Malaivijitnond, S., Qi Hai, Z. & Higham, J.P. 2022. The natural history of model organisms: The rhesus macaque as a success story of the Anthropocene. eLife 11: e78169 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.78169
DeCasien, A.R., Trujillo, A.E., Janiak, M.C., Harshaw, E.P., Caes, Z.N., Galindo, G.A., Petersen R.M. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Equivocal evidence for a link between megalencephaly-related genes and primate brain size evolution. Scientific Reports 12: 10902
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-12953-4
Munds, R.A., Cooper, E., Janiak, M.C., Lam, L.G., DeCasien, A.R., Bauman Surratt, S., Montague, M., Martinez, M., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Kawamura, S., Higham, J.P. ' & Melin, A.D. ' 2022. Variation and heritability of retinal cone ratios in a free-ranging population of rhesus macaque. Evolution 76(8): 1776-1789 https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14552
'These authors contributed equally to this work
Winters, S. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Simulated evolution of mating signal diversification in a primate radiation. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 209: 20220734
https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2022.0734
Kimock, C.M., Dubuc, C., Brent, LJ.N. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Body size and canine size do not confer a competitive advantage in male rhesus macaques. Animal Behaviour 187: 281-290 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2022.01.011
Testard, C., Brent, L.J.N., Andersson, J., Chiou, K.L., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., DeCasien, A.R., Acevedo-Ithier, A.R., Stock, M.K., Antón, S.A., Gonzalez, O., Walker, C.S., Foxley, S., Compo, N.R., Bauman,S., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Martinez, M.I., Skene, J.H.P, Horvath, J.E., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Higham, J.P., Miller, K., Snyder-Mackler, N., Montague, M.J., Platt, M.L., Sallet, J. 2022. Social connections predict brain structure in a multidimensional free-ranging primate society. Science Advances 18:15 https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abl5794
DeCasien, A.R., Barton, R.A., & Higham, J.P. 2022. Understanding the human brain: insights from comparative biology. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 26:5 432-445
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2022.02.003
Lee, D.S., Knittel, T., Deschner, T., Heistermann, H. & Higham, J.P. 2022. Testing the role of testosterone versus estrogens in mediating reproductive transitions in female rhesus macaques. Hormones and Behavior 139: 105123 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.yhbeh.2022.105123
Siracusa, E., Snyder-Mackler, M., Higham, J.P. & Brent, L. 2022. Social aging: exploring the drivers of late-life changes in social behavior in mammals. Biology Letters 18: 20210643
https://doi.org/10.1098/rsbl.2021.0643
Watowich, M.M., Chiou, K.L, Montague, M.J., Simons, N.D., Horvarth, J.E., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Martinez, M.I., Higham, J.P., Brent, L.J.N., Platt, M.L., Snyder-Mackler, N. 2022. Natural disaster and immunological aging in a nonhuman primate. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 119:8 https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2121663119
DeLacey, P.M., Perlman, R.F., Sen, S., Schneider-Crease, I., Chiou, K.L., Lemma, A., Ayele, F., Higham, J.P., Lu, A., Snyder-Mackler, N., Beehner, J.C. & Bergman, T.J. 2022. Assessing male gelada chest patches: color measurement and physiological mechanisms. Mammalian Biology https://doi.org/10.1007/s42991-021-00211-5
Turcotte, C.M., Mann, E.H.J., Stock, M.K., Villamil, C.I., Montague, M.J., Dickinson, E., Bauman Surratt, S., Martinez, M., Williams, S.A., Antón, S.C. & Higham, J.P. 2022. The ontogeny of sexual dimorphism in free-ranging rhesus macaques. American Journal of Biological Anthropology 177: 314-327 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.24442
Lee, D.S., Kang, Y., Ruiz-Lambides, A. & Higham, J.P. 2021. The observed pattern and hidden process of female reproductive trajectories across the lifespan in a nonhuman primate. Journal of Animal Ecology 90: 2901-2914 https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13590
Petersen, R.M., Heistermann, M. & Higham, J.P. 2021. Social and sexual behaviors predict immune system activation, but not adrenocortical activation, in male rhesus macaques. Behavioral Ecology & Sociobiology 75: 159 https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-021-03083-4
Pavez-Fox, M., Montague. M.J., Negron-Del Valle, J.E., Platt, M.L., Synder-Mackler M., Higham, J.P. & Brent, L.J.N. 2021. Sociality predicts individual variation in the immunity of free-ranging rhesus macaques. Physiology and Behavior 241: 113560
Higham, J.P. 2021. Studying the colors of monkeys: a comment on Caro et al. 2021. Behavioral Ecology 32: 570-571
Cerrito, P. & DeCasien, A.R. 2021. The expression of care: Alloparental care frequency predicts neural control of facial muscles in primates. Evolution 75-7: 1727-1737
https://doi.org/10.1111/evo.14275
Testard, C., Larson, S.M., Watowich, M., Kaplinsky, C.H., Bernau, A., Faulder, M., Marshall, H.H., Lehmann, J., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Higham, J.P., Montague, M., Snyder-Mackler, N., Platt, M.L., Brent, L.J.N. 2021. Rhesus macaques build new social connections after a natural disaster. Current Biology 31: 2299-2309 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2021.03.029
Melin, A.D., Orkin, J.D., Janiak, M.C., Valenzuela, A., Kuderna, L., Marrone III, F., Ramangason, H., Horvath, J.E., Roos, C., Kitchener, A.C., Khor, C.C., Lim, W.K., Lee, J.G.H., Tan, P., Umapathy, G., Raveendram, M., Harris, R.A., Gut, I., Gut, M., Lizano, E., Nadler, T., Zinner, D., Le, M.D., Manu, S., Rabarivola, C.J., Zaraomody, A., Andriaholinirina, N., Johnson, S.E., Jarvis, E.D., Fredigo, O., Wu, D., Zhang, G. Farh, K.K-H., Rogers, J., Marques-Bonet, T., Navarro, A., Juan, D., Arora, P.S. & Higham, J.P. 2021. Variation in predicted COVID-19 risk among lemurs and lorises. American Journal of Primatology 83, e23255 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23255
Janiak, M.C., Montague, M.J., Villamil, C.I., Stock, M.J., Trujillo, A.E., DePasquale, A., Orkin, J., Bauman Surratt, S., Gonzalez, O., Platt, M.L., Martinez, M., Antón S., Dominguez-Bello, M.G., Melin, A.D., Higham, J.P. 2021. Age and sex-associated variation in the multi-site microbiome of an entire social group of free-ranging rhesus macaques. Microbiome 9: 68 https://doi.org/10.1186/s40168-021-01009-w
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Agil, M., Perwitasari-Farajallah, D., Widdig, A. & Engelhardt, A. 2021. Female fertile phase synchrony, and male mating and reproductive skew, in the crested macaque.
Scientific Reports 11: 4251 https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81163-1
Colby, A.E., Kimock, C.M. & Higham, J.P. 2021. Endocranial volume is variable and heritable, but not related to fitness, in a free-ranging primate. Scientific Reports 11: 4235
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81265-w
Higham, J.P., Kimock, C.M., Mandalaywala, T.M., Heistermann M., Cascio, J., Petersdorf, M., Winters, S., Allen, W.L., & Dubuc, C. 2021. Female ornaments: is red skin color attractive to males and related to condition in rhesus macaques? Behavioral Ecology 32: 236-247
https://doi.org/10.1093/beheco/araa121
Ghazanfar, A.A., Kelly, L.M., Takahashi, D.Y., Winters, S., Terrett, R. & Higham, J.P. 2020. Domestication phenotype linked to vocal communication in a nonhuman primate. Current Biology 30: 5026-5032 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2020.09.049
Melin, A.D., Janiak, M.C., Marrone, F., Arora, P.S. & Higham, J.P. 2020. Comparative ACE2 variation and primate COVID-19 risk. Communications Biology 3: 641
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-020-01370-w
DeCasien, A.R. & Higham, J.P. 2020. Relative cerebellum size is not sexually dimorphic across primates. Brain, Behavior and Evolution 95: 93-101 https://doi.org/10.1159/000509070
Chiou, K.L., Montague, M.J., Goldman, E.A., Watowich, M.M, Sams, S.N., Song, J., Horvath, J.E., Sterner, K.N., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Martínez, M.I., Higham, J.P., Brent, L.J.N, Platt, M.L. & Snyder-Mackler, N. 2020. Rhesus macaques as a tractable physiological model of human ageing . Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B 375: 20190612
https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0612
Lee, D.S., Mandalaywala, T., Dubuc, C., Widdig, A., Higham, J.P. 2020. Higher early life mortality with lower infant body mass in a free‐ranging primate. Journal of Animal Ecology 89: 2300-2310
https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2656.13291
Petersen, R.M. & Higham, J.P. 2020. The role of sexual selection in the evolution of facial displays in male nonhuman primates and men. Adaptive Human Behavior & Physiology 6: 249–276
https://doi.org/10.1007/s40750-020-00139-z
DeCasien, A.R., Sherwood C.C., Schapiro, S.J. & Higham, J.P. 2020. Greater variability in chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) brain structure among males.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 287: 20192858 https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2019.2858
Higham, J.P., Stahl-Hennig, C., & Heistermann, M. 2020. Urinary suPAR: a non-invasive biomarker of infection and tissue inflammation for use in studies of large free-ranging mammals. Royal Society Open Science 7: 191825 https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.191825
Thompson, N.A., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Vogel, E.R., & Cords, M. 2020. Energy balance but not competitive environment corresponds with allostatic load during development in an Old World monkey. Hormones and Behavior 119: 104664
Winters, S., Allen, W.L., Higham, J.P. 2020.The structure of species discrimination signals across a primate radiation. eLife 9: e47428 https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.47428
Young, M.I.M., Winters, S., Young, C., Weiß, B.M., Troscianko, J., Ganswindt, A., Barrett, L., Henzi, S.P., Higham, J.P., Widdig, A. 2020. Male characteristics as predictors of genital color and display variation in vervet monkeys. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 74:14.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2787-4
Kimock, C., Dubuc, C., Brent, L.J.N., Higham, J.P. 2019. Male morphological traits are heritable but do not predict reproductive success in a sexually-dimorphic primate. Scientific Reports 9: 19794
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-52633-4
Fischer, J.*, Higham, J.P.*, Alberts, S.C., Barrett, L., Beehner, J.C., Bergman, T.J., Carter, A.J., Collins A., Elton, S., Fagot, J., Ferreira da Silva, M.J., Hammerschmidt, K., Henzi, P., Jolly, C., Knauf, S., Kopp, G.H., Rogers, J., Roos, C., Ross, C., Seyfarth, R.M., Silk, J., Snyder-Mackler, N., Städele, V., Swedell, L., Wilson, M.L, Zinner, D. 2019. Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. *These authors contributed equally to this work eLife 8: e50989
https://doi.org/10.7554%2FeLife.50989
Higham, J.P. 2019. A comparative perspective on measures of cycle phase, and how they relate to cues, signals, and mating behavior: a commentary on Gangestad et al. Evolution and Human Behavior 40: 533-536
Moreira, L.A.A., Duytschaever, G., Higham, J.P. & Melin, A.D. 2019. Platyrrhine color signals: New horizons to pursue.
Evolutionary Anthropology 28: 236-248 https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21798
DeCasien, A.R., Higham, J.P. 2019. Primate mosaic brain evolution reflects selection on sensory and cognitive specialization.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 3: 1483–1493. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-0969-0
Petersdorf, M., Weyher, A.H., Kamilar, J.M., Dubuc, C., Higham, J.P. 2019. Sexual selection in the Kinda baboon.
Journal of Human Evolution 135: 102635. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.06.006
Rigaill, L., Higham, J.P., Winters, S., Garcia, C. 2019. The redder the better? Information content of red skin coloration in female Japanese macaques.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 73: 103. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00265-019-2712-x
Williamson, C.M., Lee, W., DeCasien, A.R., Lanham, A., Romeo, R.D., Curley, J.P. 2019. Social hierarchy position in female mice is associated with plasma corticosterone levels and hypothalamic gene expression.
Scientific Reports 9: 7324.
Lee, D.S., Ruiz-Lambides, A.V., Higham, J.P. 2019. Higher offspring mortality with short interbirth intervals in free-ranging rhesus macaques
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA 116: 6057-6062
Rosenfield, K.A., Semple, S., Georgiev, A.V., Maestripieri, D., Higham, J.P., Dubuc, C. 2019. Experimental evidence that female rhesus macaques Macaca mulatta perceive variation in male facial masculinity
Royal Society Open Science 6: 181415.
Ma, W.J. & Higham, J.P. 2018. The role of familiarity in signaler-receiver interactions.
Journal of the Royal Society Interface 15: 20180568
DeCasien, A.R., Thompson, N.A., Williams, S.A., Shattuck, M.R. 2018. Encephalization and longevity evolved in a correlated fashion in Euarchontoglires but not in other mammals.
Evolution 72: 2617-2631
Higham J.P., Dominy N.J. 2018. The promise of primatology fulfilled?
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 166: 783–790.
Dominy, N.J., Winters, S., Pease, D.E., Higham, J.P. 2018. Dr Seuss and the real Lorax.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 2: 1196–1198.
Mandalaywala, T.M., Petrullo, L., Parker, K., Maestripieri, D. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Vigilance for threat accounts for inter-individual variation in physiological responses to adversity in rhesus macaques: a cognition x environment approach.
Developmental Psychobiology 59: 1031-1038.
Petersdorf, M., Dubuc, C., Georgiev, A.V, Winters, S. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Is the red facial coloration of male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) subject to intrasexual selection?
Behavioral Ecology 28: 1472-1481.
Hiramatsu, C., Melin, A.D., Allen, W.L., Dubuc, C. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Experimental evidence that primate trichromacy is well suited for detecting primate social colour signals.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 284: 20162458.
Roney, J.R. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Synthesizing research on field endocrinology of nonhuman primates and humans.
Hormones and Behavior 91: 1-2.
DeCasien, A.R., Williams, S.A. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Primate brain size is predicted by diet but not sociality.
Nature Ecology and Evolution 1:0112.
Hammond, A.S., Johnson, V.P. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Hip joint mobility in free-ranging rhesus macaques.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 162: 377-384.
Rigaill, L., MacIntosh, A.J.J., Higham, J.P., Winters, S., Shimizu, K., Mouri, K., Suzumura, T., Furuichi, T., Garcia, C. 2017. Testing for links between face color and age, dominance status, parity, weight, and intestinal nematode infection in a sample of female Japanese macaques.
Primates 58: 83-91.
Petrullo, L., Mandalaywala, T.M., Parker, K., Maestripieri, D. & Higham, J.P. 2016. Effects of early-life adversity on cortisol/salivary alpha-amylase symmetry in free-ranging juvenile rhesus macaques.
Hormones and Behavior 86: 78-84.
Higham, J.P. 2016. Field endocrinology of nonhuman primates: past, present and future.
Hormones and Behavior 84: 145-155
Dubuc, C., Allen, W.L., Cascio, J., Lee, D.S., Maestripieri, D., Petersdorf, M., Winters, S. & Higham, J.P. 2016. Who cares? Experimental attention biases provide new insights into a mammalian sexual signal.
Behavioral Ecology 27: 68-74
Grueter, C.C., Zhu, P., Allen, W.L., Higham, J.P., Ren, B. & Li, M. 2015. Sexually-selected lip colour indicates male group-holding status in the mating season in a multi-level primate society.
Royal Society Open Science 2:150490
Heistermann, M. & Higham, J.P. 2015 Urinary neopterin, a non-invasive marker of mammalian cellular immune activation, is highly stable under field conditions.
Scientific Reports 5: 16308
Fischer, J., Wheeler, B.C., & Higham, J.P. 2015. Is there any evidence for vocal learning in chimpanzee food calls?
Current Biology 25, R1-R2
Rigaill, L., MacIntosh, A.J.J., Higham, J.P., Winters, S., Shimizu, K., Mouri, K., Takeshi, F. & Garcia, C. Multimodal advertisement of pregnancy in free-ranging female Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata).
PLOS One 10(8): e0135127
Higham, J.P., Kraus, C., Stahl-Hennig, C., Engelhardt, A., Fuchs, D. & Heistermann, M. 2015. Evaluating non-invasive markers of non-human primate immune activation and inflammation.
American Journal of Physical Anthropology 158: 673-684
Winters, S., Dubuc, C. & Higham, J.P. 2015. The looking time experimental paradigm in studies of animal visual perception and cognition.
Ethology 121: 625-640
Allen, W.L. & Higham, J.P. 2015. Assessing the potential information content of multicomponent visual signals: A machine learning approach.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 282: 20142284
Hughes, K.D., Higham, J.P., Allen, W.L., Elliot, A.J. & Hayden, B.Y. 2015. Extraneous red drives female macaques’ gaze toward photographs of male conspecifics.
Evolution and Human Behavior 36: 25-31
MacLarnon, A.M., Sommer, V., Goffe, A.S., Higham, J.P., Lodge, E., Tkaczynski, P. & Ross, C. 2015. Assessing adaptability and reactive scope: a new measure and a case study of environmental stress in forest-living baboons.
General and Comparative Endocrinology 215: 10-24
Dubuc, C., Winters, S., Allen, W.L., Brent, L.J.N., Cascio, J., Maestripieri, D.M., Ruiz-Lambides, A., Widdig, A. & Higham, J.P. 2014. Sexually-selected skin color is heritable and related to fecundity in a non-human primate.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 281: 20141602
Dubuc, C., Ruiz-Lambides, A., & Widdig, A. 2014. Variance in male lifetime reproductive success and estimation of the degree of polygyny in a primate.
Behavioral Ecology 25: 878-889.
Mandalaywala, T.M., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Parker, K.J. & Maestripieri D. 2014. Physiological and behavioral stress responses to weaning conflict in free-ranging primate infants.
Animal Behaviour 91: 241-247
Allen, W.L., Stevens, M & Higham, J.P. 2014. Character displacement of Cercopithecini primate visual signals.
Nature Communications 5: 4266
Higham, J.P. & Maestripieri, D. 2014. The costs of reproductive success in Cayo Santiago male rhesus macaques.
International Journal of Primatology 35: 661-676
Dubuc, C., Allen, W.L., Maestripieri, D. & Higham, J.P. 2014. Is male rhesus macaque red colour ornamentation attractive to females?
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 68: 1215-1224
Higham, J.P. 2014. How does honest costly signaling work?
Behavioral Ecology 25: 8-11
Allen, W.A., Scott-Samuel, N.E., Baddeley, R.J. & Cuthill, I.C. 2013. The evolution and function of pattern diversity on snakes.
Behavioral Ecology 24: 1237-1250
Dubuc, C., Coyne, S.P., & Maestripieri, D. (2013). Effect of mating activity and dominance rank on male masturbation among free-ranging male rhesus macaques.
Ethology, 119: 1-8.
Higham, J.P. & Hebets, E.A. 2013. An introduction to multimodal communication.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 1381-1388
Wilson A., Dean, M. & Higham, J.P. 2013. A game theoretic approach to multimodal communication.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 1399-1415
Higham, J.P., Pfefferle, D., Heistermann, M., Maestripieri, D. & Stevens, M. 2013. Signaling in multiple modalities in male rhesus macaques: barks and sex skin coloration in relation to androgen levels, social status and mating behavior.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 1457-1469
Semple, S. & Higham, J.P. 2013. Primate signals: Current issues and perspectives.
American Journal of Primatology 75: 613-620
Rigaill, L., Higham, J.P., Lee, PC., Blin, A. & Garcia, C. 2013. Multimodal sexual signaling and mating behavior in olive baboons (Papio anubis).
American Journal of Primatology 75: 774-787
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M. & Maestripieri, D. 2013. The endocrinology of male rhesus macaque social and reproductive status: a test of the challenge and social stress hypotheses.
Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology 67: 19-30
Allen, W.L. & Higham, J.P. 2013. Analyzing visual signals as visual scenes.
American Journal of Primatology 75: 664-682
Allen, W.A., Baddeley, R.J., Cuthill, I.C. & Scott-Samuel, N.E. (2013) A quantitative test of the predicted relationships between countershading and lighting environment.
The American Naturalist 180: 762-776
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Saggau, C., Agil, M., Perwitasari-Farajallah, D. & Engelhardt, A. 2012. Sexual signaling in the crested macaque and the evolution of primate fertility signals.
BMC Evolutionary Biology 12: 89
Mandalaywala, T.M., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M. & Maestripieri, D. 2011. Infant bystanders modulate the effects of ovarian hormones on socio-sexual behaviour in free-ranging female rhesus macaques.
Behaviour 148: 1137-1155
Higham, J.P., Girard-Buttoz, C., Engelhardt, A. & Heistermann, M. 2011 Urinary C-peptide of insulin as a non-invasive marker of nutritional status: some practicalities.
PLoS One 6: e22398
Higham, J.P., Hughes, K.D., Brent, L.J.N., Dubuc, C., Engelhardt, A., Heistermann, M., Maestripieri, D., Santos, L.R & Stevens, M. 2011. Familiarity affects assessment of facial signals of female fertility by free-ranging male rhesus macaques.
Proceedings of the Royal Society B 278: 3452-3458
Hoffman, C.L., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Prendergast, B., Coe, C. & Maestripieri, D. 2011. Immune function and HPA axis activity in free-ranging rhesus macaques.
Physiology and Behavior 104: 507-514
Girard-Buttoz, C., Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M., Wedegärtner, S., Maestripieri, D. & Engelhardt, A. 2011. Urinary c-peptide measurement as a marker of nutritional status in macaques.
PLoS One 6: e18042
Higham, J.P., Heistermann, M. & Maestripieri, D. 2011. The energetics of male-male endurance rivalry in rhesus macaques.
Animal Behaviour 81: 1001-1007
Higham, J.P., Barr, C.S., Hoffman, C.L., Mandalaywala, T.M., Parker, K.J. & Maestripieri, D. 2011. Mu-opioid receptor (OPRM1) variation, oxytocin levels and maternal behavior in free-ranging rhesus macaques.
Behavioral Neuroscience 125: 131-136
De Vere, R., Warren, Y., Nicholas, A., MacKenzie, M.E. & Higham, J.P. 2011. Nest site ecology of the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla diehli) in the Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, Cameroon, with special reference to anthropogenic influence.
American Journal of Primatology 73: 253-261
Higham, J.P. & Maestripieri, D. 2010. Revolutionary coalitions in male rhesus macaques.
Behaviour 147: 1889-1908
Higham, J.P., Vitale, A.B., Mas-Rivera, A., Ayala, J.E. & Maestripieri, D. 2010. Measuring salivary analytes from free-ranging monkeys.
Physiology & Behavior 101: 601-607
Hoffman, C.L., Higham, J.P., Mas-Rivera, A., Ayala, J.E. & Maestripieri, D. 2010. Terminal investment and senescence in rhesus macaques on Cayo Santiago.
Behavioral Ecology 21: 972-978
Higham, J.P., Brent, L.J.N., Dubuc, C., Accamando, A,K., Engelhardt, A., Gerald, M.S., Heistermann, M. & Stevens, M. 2010. Color signal information content and the eye of the beholder: a case study in the rhesus macaque.
Behavioral Ecology 21: 739-746
Higham, J.P. MacLarnon, A.M., Heistermann, M., Ross, C. & Semple, S. 2009. Self-directed behaviours and faecal glucocorticoid levels are not correlated in female wild olive baboons.
Stress 12: 526-532
Higham, J.P. Primate Coloration – An introduction to the special issue. 2009.
International Journal of Primatology 30: 749-751
Marty, J.M., Higham, J.P., Gadsby, E.L., & Ross, C. 2009 Color, dominance and social and sexual behavior in male drills.
International Journal of Primatology 30: 807-823
Stevens, M., Stoddard, M.C., & Higham, J.P. 2009. Studying primate color: towards visual system dependent methods.
International Journal of Primatology 30: 893-917
Higham, J.P., Semple, S. MacLarnon, A., Heistermann, M. & Ross, C. 2009. Female reproductive signals, and male mating behavior, in the olive baboon.
Hormones and Behavior 55: 60-67
Higham, J.P., Warren, Y., Adanu, J. Bubu, U. MacLarnon, A., Sommer, V. & Ross, C. 2009. Living on the edge: Life-history of olive baboons at Gashaka-Gumti National Park, Nigeria.
American Journal of Primatology 71: 293-304
Higham, J.P., MacLarnon, A., Ross, C., Heistermann, M. & Semple, S. 2008 Baboon sexual swellings: Information content of size and color.
Hormones and Behavior 53: 452-462
Higham, J.P. Heistermann, M., Ross, C., Semple, S. & MacLarnon, A. 2008. The timing of ovulation with respect to sexual swelling detumescence in wild olive baboons.
Primates 49: 295-299
Higham, J.P., Ross, C., Warren, Y., Heistermann, M. & MacLarnon, A. 2007 Reduced reproductive function in wild baboons (Papio hamadryas anubis) related to natural consumption of the African black plum (Vitex doniana).
Hormones and Behavior 52: 384-390
Asakura, T., Umemura, K., Nakazawa, Y., Hirose, H., Higham, J.P. & Knight, D. 2007 Some observations on the structure and function of the spinning apparatus in the silkworm Bombyx mori.
Biomacromolecules 8: 175-181
Higham, J.P. & Gosler, A.G. 2006 Speckled eggs: water loss and incubation behaviour in the Great tit Parus major.
Oecologia 149: 561-570
Gosler, A.G., Higham, J.P. & Reynolds, S.J. 2005 Why are birds’ eggs speckled?
Ecology Letters 8: 1105-1113
Book Chapters & Encyclopedia Entries
Winters, S., Petersdorf, M. & Higham, J.P. 2019. Charles Darwin and selection in relation to sex in the colors of monkeys.
In: Darwin’s roadmap to the curriculum: Evolutionary studies in Higher Education. Oxford University Press: New York.
Petersen R.M. 2019. Female choice.
In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Vonk J & Shackelford TK (eds). Springer, Cham. In press (early access available online).
Petersen R.M. 2019. Ejaculate.
In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Vonk J & Shackelford TK (eds). Springer, Cham. In press (early access available online).
Winters S. 2019. Aposematism.
In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Vonk J & Shackelford TK (eds). Springer, Cham. In press (early access available online).
Winters S. 2019. Ornamentation.
In: Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior, Vonk J & Shackelford TK (eds). Springer, Cham. In press (early access available online).
Petersen R.M., Dubuc C., Higham J.P. 2018. Facial displays of dominance in non-human primates.
In: The Facial Displays of Leaders. Ed Senior, C. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham.
Petersdorf, M. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Mating systems, Primates.
In: International Encyclopedia of Biological Anthropology. John Wiley and Sons, Inc. Hoboken: New Jersey.
Higham, J.P. 2017. Sperm competition.
In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey.
Higham, J.P. & Petersdorf, M. 2017. Sexual swellings.
In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey.
Petersdorf, M. & Higham, J.P. 2017. Mating systems.
In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey.
Higham, J.P. 2016. Multimodal Communication.
In: The missing lemur link: an ancestral step in human evolution (Palagi, E. & Norscia I.) Cambridge University Press: Cambridge.
Higham, J.P. & Dubuc, C. 2015. The evolution of female fertility signals in macaques.
In: eLS (Encyclopedia of Life Sciences). Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey. DOI: 10.1002/9780470015902.a0024968
Higham, J.P. & Winters, S. 2015. Color and mate choice in nonhuman animals.
In: The handbook of color psychology Eds Elliot, A.J. & Fairchild, M.D. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, UK. pp 502-530. ISBN: 978-1-107-04323-7
Higham, J.P. 2013. Primate visual signals.
In: McGraw-Hill Yearbook of Science and Technology 2014. McGraw-Hill Professional: New York
Warren, Y., Higham, J.P., MacLarnon, A. & Ross, C. 2011. Crop-raiding and commensalism: the costs and benefits of living with humans.
In: Primates of Gashaka Eds. Sommer, V & Ross, C. Developments in primatology: progress and prospects. Springer. Series Ed. Tuttle, R.H.
Ross, C., Warren, Y., MacLarnon, A. & Higham, J.P. 2011. How different are Gashaka’s baboons? A comparison of forest-living and open-country populations.
In: Primates of Gashaka Eds. Sommer, V & Ross, C. Developments in primatology: progress and prospects. Springer. Series Ed. Tuttle, R.H.
Other journal publications
Setchell, J.M., Fernandez-Duque, E. Higham, J.P., Rothman, J.M., Schulke, O. 2016. Editorial: Changes and clarifications to the policies of the International Journal of Primatology to promote transparency and open communication.
International Journal of Primatology 37: 617-627.
DeCasien, A.R., Evans, K.D., Fuong, H., Lee, D.S., Petersdorf, M., Petersen, R.M., Shackelford, C.M. (2016). Crickette M. Sanz, Josep Call, and Christophe Boesch (Eds.): Tool Use in Animals: Cognition and Ecology.
International Journal of Primatology 37: 608-611.
Petersdorf, M. & Higham, J.P. 2015. Katja Liebal, Bridget M. Waller, Anne M. Burrows, Katie E. Slocombe: Primate Communication: A Multimodal Approach.
International Journal of Primatology 36: 1055-1059
Winters, S. & Higham, J.P. 2015. Martin Stevens: Sensory Ecology, Behaviour, and Evolution.
International Journal of Primatology 36: 205-208
Dubuc, C. & Higham, J.P. 2014. Quite the complexion: rhesus monkey face redness is passed on to their offspring, and affects their reproductive fitness.
Biosphere 2: 50-55
Winters, S., Dunayer, E.S., Petersdorf, M., Simons, N.D., Tinsman, J. 2014. Primatology and Conservation in Hanoi, Vietnam.
Evolutionary Anthropology 23: 201-204
Higham, J.P., Amann, A.L., Bryer, M.A.H., Thompson, N.A. & Winters, S. 2013. Review of “The Evolution of Primate Societies” (Eds. John C. Mitani, Josep Call, Peter M. Kappeler, Ryne A. Palombit & Joan B. Silk).
International Journal of Primatology 34: 1298-1303
Higham, J.P. 2011. Review of “The Japanese Macaques” (Eds., Naofumi, N., Nakamichi, N. & Sugiura, H.).
International Journal of Primatology 32: 1033-1036
Semple, S., Higham, J.P., MacLarnon, A., Ross, C. & Lehmann, J. 2010. Comment on ‘Pan Thanatology’.
Current Biology www.cell.com/current-biology/comments/S0960-9822(10)00145-4
Wiseman, R., Warren, Y., Nicholas, A., MacKenzie, M., & Higham, J.P. 2008. A GIS habitat map for the Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary, Cameroon.
Gorilla Journal 37: 12-14
Higham, J.P. & Bennett, D. 2008. Some observations on wildlife, and wildlife consumption, in Eastern Nigeria.
Gorilla Journal. 36: 11-13
