Publications

(Names of my students are underlined.)

2022

Crouse, K., Desai, N., *Cassidy, K.A., Stahler, E.E., Lehman, C., Wilson, M. L. (2022). Larger territories reduce mortality risk for chimpanzees, wolves, and agents: multiple lines of evidence in a model validation framework. Ecological Modelling Article 110063. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110063

Massaro, A. P., Gilby, I. C., Desai, N., Weiss, A., Feldblum, J. T., Pusey, A. E., Wilson, M. L. (2022). Correlates of individual participation in boundary patrols by male chimpanzees. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological Sciences, 377(1851), 20210151. https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2021.0151

2021

Grueter, C. C., Wilson, M. L. (2021). Do we need to reclassify the social systems of gregarious apes? Evolutionary Anthropology. https://doi.org/10.1002/evan.21919

Lehman, C., Loberg, S., Wilson, M. L., Gorham, E. (2021). Ecology of the Anthropocene signals hope for consciously managing the planetary ecosystem. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, 118(28), e202415118. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2024150118

Lonsdorf, E.V., Travis, D.A., Raphael, J., Kamenya, S., Lipende, I., Mwacha, D., Collins, A., Wilson, M., Mjungu, D., Murray, C., Bakuza, J., Wolf, T., Parsons, M., Deere, J., Lantz, E., Kinsel, M., Santymire, R., Pintea, L., Terio, K., Hahn, B., Pusey, A., Goodall, J., Gillespie, T.R. (2021). The Gombe Ecosystem Health Project: A 16-year review of program evolution and lessons learned. American Journal of Primatology, e23300 https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23300

Miller, C. M., Snyder-Mackler, N., Nguyen, N., Fashing, P. J., Tung, J., Wroblewski, E. E., Gustison, M., Wilson, M. L. (2021). High extra-group paternity in gelada monkeys (Theropithecus gelada) at Guassa, Ethiopia. Animal Behaviour, 177: 277-301. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.anbehav.2021.05.008

Ordaz-Németh, I., Aaron, R., Amarasekaran, B., Boesch, C., Brncic, T., Caillaud, D., Ordaz-Németh, I., Sop, T., Amarasekaran, B., Bachmann, M., Boesch, C., Brncic, T., Caillaud, D., Campbell, G., Carvalho, J., Chancellor, R., Davenport, T., Dowd, D., Massaneh, E.-N., Ganas-Swaray, J., Granier, N., Greengrass, E., Heinicke, S., Herbinger, I., Inkamba-Nkulu, C., Iyenguet, F., Junker, J., Bobo, K. S., Lushimba, A., Maisels, F., Malanda, G. A. F., McCarthy, M., Motsaba, P., Moustgaard, J., Murai, M., Ndoukoue, B., Nixon, S., Nseme R. A., Nzooh, Z., Pintea, L., Plumptre, A. J., Roy, J., Rundus, A., Sanderson, J., Serckx, A., Strindberg, S., Tweh, C., Vanleuwee, H., Vosper, A., Waltert, M., Williamson, E. A., Wilson, M. L., Mundry, R., Kühl, H. S. (2021). Inferring range-wide African great ape density distribution from site-level abundances. American Journal of Primatology 83(12):e23338. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23338

O’Bryan, L. R., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., Wilson, M. L. (2021). Playbacks of food-associated calls attract chimpanzees towards known food patches in a captive setting. Primates 62: 905–918 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10329-021-00936-4

Ozga, A., Webster, T., Gilby, I. C. , Wilson, M., Nockerts, R. S., Wilson, M. L., Li, Y., Hahn, B. H., Stone, A. (2021). Urine as a high-quality source of host genomic DNA from wild populations. Molecular Ecology Resources. https://doi.org/10.1111/1755-0998.13260

Wilson, M. L. (2021). Insights into human evolution from sixty years of research on chimpanzees at Gombe. Evolutionary Human Sciences. 3, e8. Published online 11 January 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2021.2

Wilson, M. L. 2021.Book review: Chimpanzee: Lessons from our Sister SpeciesThe Quarterly Review of Biology 96(3): 215–216. https://doi.org/10.1086/716146

2020

Glowacki, L., Wilson, M. L., Wrangham, R. W. 2020. Evolutionary anthropology and the origins of war. Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. 178, 963–982. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.09.014 get pdf 

Lonsdorf, E. V., Wilson, M. L., Boehm, E., Delaney-Soesman, J., Grebey, T., Murray, C., Wellens, K., Pusey, A. E. 2020. Why chimpanzees carry dead infants: An empirical assessment of existing hypotheses. Royal Society Open Science 7: 200931. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.200931

O’Bryan, L. R., Lambeth, S. P., Schapiro, S. J., Wilson, M. L. (2020) Unpacking chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes) patch use: Do individuals respond to food patches as predicted by the marginal value theorem? American Journal of Primatology 82(12) https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.23208

Wilson, M. L.  2020. Hawks, Doves, and mongooses. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (48) 30012-30013https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2021188117

Wilson, M. L. 2020. Book review: Why Chimpanzees Can’t Learn Language and Only Humans CanThe Quarterly Review of Biology 95: 155-156.

Wilson, M. L., Lonsdorf, E. V., Mjungu, D. C., Kamenya, S., Kimaro, E. W., Collins, D. A., Gillespie, T. R., Travis, D. A., Lipende, I., Mwacha, D., Ndimuligo, S. A., Pintea, L., Raphael, J., Mtiti, E. R., Hahn, B. H., Pusey, A. E., Goodall, J. (2020) Research and conservation in the Greater Gombe Ecosystem:  Challenges and opportunities. Biological Conservation 252, 108853. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2020.108853

T. M. Wolf, Deere, J. R., Lonsdorf, E. V., Collins, D. A., Gillespie, T. R., Terio, K., Murray, C. M., Mjungu, D., Kamenya, S., Mwacha, D., Raphael, J., Lipende, I., Bakuza, J., Gilagiza, B., Milstein, M. S., Shaffer, C. A., Wilson, M. L., Detwiler, K. M., Travis, D. A. 2020. Forming, storming and norming your way into OneHealth: The Gombe Case Study.In: Neglected Diseases in Monkeys: From The Monkey-Human Interface to One Health. Knauf, S., Jones-Engel, L., eds. Springer Nature.

2019

Crouse, K. N., C. M. Miller, and M. L.Wilson. 2019. New approaches to modeling primate socioecology: Does small female group size BEGET loyal males? Journal of Human Evolution. get pdf https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102671

Fischer, J., J. P. Higham, S. C. Alberts, L. Barrett, J. C. Beehner, T. J. Bergman, A. J. Carter, A. Collins, S. Elton, J. Fagot, M. Ferreira da Silva, K. Hammerschmidt, P. Henzi, C. Jolly, S. Knauf, G. H. Kopp, J. A. Rogers, C. Roos, C. Ross, R. M. Seyfarth, J. B. Silk, N. Snyder-Mackler, V. Städele, L. Swedell, M. L. Wilson, D. Zinner. (2019). The natural history of model organisms: Insights into the evolution of social systems and species from baboon studies. eLife 2019;8:e50989 DOI: 10.7554/eLife.50989.001 get paper

Ozga, A. T. I. C. Gilby, R. Nockerts, M. L. Wilson, A. E. Pusey, and A. C. Stone. (2019) Oral microbiome diversity in chimpanzees from Gombe National Park. Scientific Reports 9: 17354. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-53802-1

Wilson, M. .L., and C. Lehman. 2019. Humans: Uniquely responsible for causing conservation problems, uniquely capable of solving them. Animal Sentience 23(19). get pdf

2018

Adamescu, G. S., Plumptre, A. J., Abernethy, K. A., Polansky, L., Bush, E. R., Chapman, C. A., Shoo, L. P., Fayolle, A., Janmaat, K. R. L., Robbins, M. M., Ndangalasi, H. J., Cordeiro, N. J., Gilby, I. C., Wittig, R. M., Breuer, T., Hockemba, M.B.-N., Sanz, C. M., Morgan, D. B., Pusey, A. E., Mugerwa, B., Gilagiza, B., Tutin, C. E. G., Ewango, C. E. N., Sheil, D., Dimoto, E., Baya, F., Bujo, F., Ssali, F., Dikangadissi, J.-T., Jeffery, K., Valenta, K., White, L., Masozera, M., Wilson, M. L., Bitariho, R., Ebika, S. T. N., Gourlet-Fleury, S., Beale, C. M. (2018) Annual cycles dominate reproductive phenology of African tropical trees. Biotropica 50(3): 418-430.  (Awarded the Peter Ashton prize for the outstanding paper in Biotropica led by a student) https://doi.org/10.1111/btp.12561 get pdf

Barbian, H. J., Li, Y., Ramirez, M. A., Klase, Z., Lipende, I., Mjungu, D. C., Wilson, M. L., Pusey, A. E., Lonsdorf, E. V., Bushman, F. D., Hahn, B. H. 2018. Diversification of the chimpanzee gut microbiome marks the end-stage of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus infection. American Journal of Primatology 80(1): e22515. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22515

Kirchhoff, C. A.Wilson, M. L., Mjungu, D. C., Raphael, J., Kamenya, S., Collins, D. A. 2018. Infanticide in chimpanzees: Taphonomic case studies from Gombe. American Journal of Physical Anthropology 165(1): 108-122. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.23335

Lonsdorf, E. V., Gillespie, T. R., Wolf, T. M., Lipende, I., Raphael, J., Bakuza, J., Murray, C. M., Wilson, M. L., Kamenya, S., Mjungu, D. C., Collins, D. A., Gilby, I. C., Stanton, M. A., Terio, K. A., Barbian, H. J., Li, Y., Ramirez, M., Krupnick, A., Seidl, E., Goodall, J., Hahn, B. H., Pusey, A. E., Travis, D. A. 2018. Socioecological correlates of clinical signs in two communities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 80(1): e22562. https://doi.org/10.1002/ajp.22562

Wilson, M. L.  2018. Sexual selection explains much in human evolution, but probably not bipedalism. Ideas in Ecology and Evolution. Vol. 11. get pdf

Wilson, M. L.  2018. Mahale Chimpanzees: 50 Years of Research (book review). The Quarterly Review of Biology 93(2):174-175 get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2018). Studying chimpanzee calls for clues about the origins of human language. The Conversation; published 08 May 2018. get pdf

2017

Wilson, M. L. and L. Glowacki (2017). Violent cousins: Chimpanzees, humans, and the roots of war. Chimpanzees and Human Evolution. M. N. Muller, R. W. Wrangham and D. Pilbeam. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press. link

Wilson, M. L., C. M. Miller and K. N. Crouse (2017). “Humans as a model species for sexual selection research.” Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences. 284(1866). get pdf

Glowacki, L., M. L. Wilson, and R. W. Wrangham (2017). “The evolutionary anthropology of war.” Journal of Economic Behavior Organization. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2017.09.014.

Kirchhoff, C. A., M. L. Wilson, D. C. Mjungu, J. Raphael, S. Kamenya and D. A. Collins “Infanticide in chimpanzees: Taphonomic case studies from Gombe.” American Journal of Physical Anthropology.10.1002/ajpa.23335. get pdf

Weiss, A., M. L. Wilson, D. A. Collins, D. Mjungu, S. Kamenya, S. Foerster and A. E. Pusey (2017). “Personality in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park.”  4: 170146. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2017). Demonic Male Theory. International Encyclopedia of Primatology. A. Fuentes, M. Bezanson, C. J. Campbell et al., Wiley.

2016

Lonsdorf, E. V., T. R. Gillespie, T. M. Wolf, I. Lipende, J. Raphael, J. Bakuza, C. M. Murray, M. L. Wilson, S. Kamenya, D. C. Mjungu, D. A. Collins, I. C. Gilby, M. A. Stanton, K. A. Terio, H. J. Barbian, Y. Li, M. Ramirez, A. Krupnick, E. Seidl, J. Goodall, B. H. Hahn, A. E. Pusey and D. A. Travis (2016). Socioecological correlates of clinical signs in two communities of wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology. 10.1002/ajp.22562. get pdf

Foerster, S., Y. Zhong, L. Pintea, C. M. Murray, M. L. Wilson, D. C. Mjungu and A. E. Pusey (2016). Habitat quality and behavioral tradeoffs in wild chimpanzees: a case for species distribution models. Behavioral Ecology. get pdf

Moeller, A. H., S. Foerster, M. L. Wilson, A. Pusey, B. Hahn and H. Ochman (2016). Social behavior shapes the chimpanzee pan-microbiome. Science Advances 2(1): e1500997. get pdf

2015

Barbian, H. J., Y. Li, M. A. Ramirez, Z. Klase, I. Lipende, D. C. Mjungu, M. L. Wilson, A. E. Pusey, E. V. Lonsdorf, F. D. Bushman and B. H. Hahn (2016). Diversification of the chimpanzee gut microbiome marks the end-stage of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus infection. American Journal of Primatology. doi: 10.1002/ajp.22515. get pdf

Plooij, F. X., H. van de Rijt-Plooij, M. Fischer, M. L. Wilson and A. Pusey (2015). “An archive of longitudinal recordings of the vocalizations of adult Gombe chimpanzees.” Scientific Data 2. Article number: 150027 (2015) ​doi:10.1038/sdata.2015.27 get pdf

Zuk, M. and M. L. Wilson (2015). Why humans prevail. The Chronicle of Higher Education: B16. get pdf

Hockings, K. J., M. R. McLennan, S. Carvalho, M. Ancrenaz, R. Bobe, R. Byrne, R. I. M. Dunbar, T. Matsuzawa, W. C. McGrew, E. A. Williamson, M. L. Wilson, B. Wood, R. W. Wrangham and C. M. Hill (2015). “Apes in the Anthropocene: flexibility and survival.” Trends in Ecology & Evolution 30(4):215-222. get pdf

2014

Wilson, M. L., C. Boesch, B. Fruth, T. Furuichi, I. C. Gilby, C. Hashimoto, C. Hobaiter, G. Hohman, N. Itoh, K. Koops, J. Lloyd, T. Matsuzawa, J. C. Mitani, D. C. Mjungu, D. Morgan, R. Mundry, M. N. Muller, M. Nakamura, J. D. Pruetz, A. E. Pusey, J. Riedel, C. Sanz, A. M. Schel, N. Simmons, M. Waller, D. P. Watts, F. J. White, R. M. Wittig, K. Zuberbühler and R. W. Wrangham (2014). “Lethal aggression in Pan is better explained by adaptive strategies than human impacts.” Nature 513: 414-417.

Liu, W., Y. Li, K. S. Shaw, G. H. Learn, L. Plenderleith, J. A. Malenke, S. A. Sundararaman, M. A. Ramirez, P. A. Crystal, A. G. Smith, F. Bibollet-Ruche, A. Ayouba, S. Locatelli, A. Esteban, F. Mouacha, E. Guichet, C. Butel, S. Ahuka-Mundeke, B.-I. Inogwabini, J.-B. N. Ndjango, S. Speede, C. M. Sanz, D. B. Morgan, M. K. Gonder, P. J. Kranzusch, P. D. Walsh, A. V. Georgiev, M. N. Muller, A. K. Piel, F. A. Stewart, M. L. Wilson, A. E. Pusey, L. Cui, Z. Wang, A. Färnert, C. J. Sutherland, D. Nolder, J. A. Hart, T. B. Hart, P. Bertolani, A. Gillis, M. LeBreton, B. Tafon, J. Kiyang, C. F. Djoko, B. S. Schneider, N. D. Wolfe, E. Mpoudi-Ngole, E. Delaporte, R. Carter, R. L. Culleton, G. M. Shaw, J. C. Rayner, M. Peeters, B. H. Hahn and P. M. Sharp (2014). “African origin of the malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax.” Nature Communications 5.

Lonsdorf, E. V., D. A. Travis, R. Ssuna, E. L. Lantz, M. L. Wilson, K. Gamble, K. A. Terio, F. H. Leendertz, B. Ehlers, B. F. Keele, B. H. Hahn, T. Gillespie, J. Pond, J. Raphael and D. A. Collins (2014). “Field immobilization for treatment of an unknown illness in a wild chimpanzee (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) at Gombe National Park, Tanzania: challenges and lessons learned.” Primates 55(1): 89-99. get pdf

2013

Gilby, I. C., M. L. Wilson and A. E. Pusey (2013). Ecological and social correlates of inter-group aggression and predation in male chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 86: 61-74. DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2013.04.012 get pdf

Moeller, A. H., M. Shilts, Y. Li, R. S. Rudicell, E. V. Lonsdorf, A. E. Pusey, M. L. Wilson, B. H. Hahn and H. Ochman (2013). “SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiota.” Cell, Host & Microbe 14: 340-345. get pdf

Prado-Martinez, J., P. H. Sudmant, J. M. Kidd, H. Li, J. L. Kelley, B. Lorente-Galdos, K. R. Veeramah, A. E. Woerner, T. D. O/’Connor, G. Santpere, A. Cagan, C. Theunert, F. Casals, H. Laayouni, K. Munch, A. Hobolth, A. E. Halager, M. Malig, J. Hernandez-Rodriguez, I. Hernando-Herraez, K. Prufer, M. Pybus, L. Johnstone, M. Lachmann, C. Alkan, D. Twigg, N. Petit, C. Baker, F. Hormozdiari, M. Fernandez-Callejo, M. Dabad, M. L. Wilson, L. Stevison, C. Camprubi, T. Carvalho, A. Ruiz-Herrera, L. Vives, M. Mele, T. Abello, I. Kondova, R. E. Bontrop, A. Pusey, F. Lankester, J. A. Kiyang, R. A. Bergl, E. Lonsdorf, S. Myers, M. Ventura, P. Gagneux, D. Comas, H. Siegismund, J. Blanc, L. Agueda-Calpena, M. Gut, L. Fulton, S. A. Tishkoff, J. C. Mullikin, R. K. Wilson, I. G. Gut, M. K. Gonder, O. A. Ryder, B. H. Hahn, A. Navarro, J. M. Akey, J. Bertranpetit, D. Reich, T. Mailund, M. H. Schierup, C. Hvilsom, A. M. Andres, J. D. Wall, C. D. Bustamante, M. F. Hammer, E. E. Eichler, and T. Marques-Bonet. (2013). Great ape genetic diversity and population history. Nature 499:471-475. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2013). Chimpanzees, warfare and the invention of peace. In: D. P. Fry (Ed.), War, Peace, and Human Nature. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 361-388. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2013). Chimpanzees: alien minds or kindred spirits? Evolutionary Anthropology 22:154-156. get pdf

2012

Degnan, P. H., A. E. Pusey, E. V. Lonsdorf, J. Goodall, E. E. Wroblewski, M. L. Wilson, R. S. Rudicell, B. H. Hahn and H. Ochman (2012). Factors associated with the diversification of the gut microbial communities within chimpanzees from Gombe National Park. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America109(32): 13034-13039. get pdf

Hauff, L. E. and E. W. Demerath (2012). “Body image concerns and reduced breastfeeding duration in primiparous overweight and obese women.” American Journal of Human Biology 24: 339-349. get pdf

Moeller, A. H., P. H. Degnan, A. E. Pusey, M. L. Wilson, B. H. Hahn and H. Ochman (2012). Chimpanzees and humans harbor compositionally similar gut enterotypes. Nature Communications 3: 1179. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2012). Long-term studies of the Gombe chimpanzees. In: P. Kappeler & D. P. Watts (Eds.), Long-term Field Studies of Primates. New York: Springer. ISBN 978-3-642-22513-0  get pdf

Wilson, M. L., Kahlenberg, S. M., Wells, M. T. & Wrangham, R. W. (2012). Ecological and social factors affect the occurrence and outcomes of intergroup encounters in chimpanzees. Animal Behaviour. 83(1): 277-291. doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2011.11.004 get pdf

2011

Pintea, L., A. E. Pusey, M. L. Wilson, I. C. Gilby, D. A. Collins, S. Kamenya and J. Goodall (2011). Long-term changes in the ecological factors surrounding the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park. Long Term Changes in Africa’s Rift Valley: Impacts on Biodiversity and Ecosystems. A. J. Plumptre. New York, Nova Science Publishers.

Terio, K. A., M. J. Kinsel, J. Raphael, T. Mlengeya, I. Lipende, C. Kirchhoff, B. Gilagiza, M. L. Wilson, S. Kamenya, J. D. Estes, B. F. Keele, R. S. Rudicell, W. Liu, S. Patton, D. A. Collins, B. H. Hahn, D. A. Travis and E. V. Lonsdorf (2011). Pathological lesions in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii) from Gombe National Park, Tanzania, 2004-2010. Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine 42(4): 597-607. get pdf

2010

Blinkova, O., Victoria, J., Li, Y., Keele, B. F., Sanz, C., Ndjango, J. N., Peeters, M., Lonsdorf, E. V., Wilson, M. L., Pusey, A. E., Hahn, B. H. & Delwart, E. L. (2010). Novel circular DNA viruses in stool samples of wild-living chimpanzees. Journal of General Virology 91(Pt. 1):74-86. get pdf

Li, L., Kapoor, A., Slikas, B., Soji, O. B., Wang, C., Shaukat, S., Alam, M. M., Wilson, M., Ndjango, J.-B., Peeters, M., Gross-Camp, N., Muller, M. N., Hahn, B. H., Wolfe, N., Triki, H., Bartkus, J., Zaidi, S. Z. & Delwart, E. L. (2010). Multiple diverse circoviruses infect farm animals and are commonly found in human and chimpanzee feces. Journal of Virology 84(4):1674-82. get pdf

Jones, J. H., M. L. Wilson., C. M. Murray, & A. E. Pusey. (2010). Phenotypic quality influences fertility in Gombe chimpanzees. Journal of Animal Ecology 79(6): 1262-1269. DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2656.2010.01687.x. get pdf

Rudicell, R. S., J. H. Jones, E. E. Wroblewski, L. G. H., Y. Li, E. Greengrass, F. Grossmann, S. Kamenya, L. Pintea, D. C. Mjungu, E. V. Lonsdorf, A. Mosser, D. A. Collins, B. F. Keele, J. Goodall, A. E. Pusey, B. Hahn and M. L. Wilson. (2010). Impact of Simian Immunodeficiency Virus on chimpanzee population dynamics. PLoS Pathogens, 6(9): e1001116. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2010). Celebrating 50 years of chimpanzee research at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. Pan Africa Newsget pdf

2009

Keele, B. F., Jones, J. H., Terio, K. A., Estes, J. D., Rudicell, R. S., Wilson, M. L., Li, Y., Learn, G. H., Beasley, T. M., Schumacher-Stankey, J., Wroblewski, E. E., Mosser, A., Raphael, J., Kamenya, S., Lonsdorf, E. V., Travis, D. A., Mlengeya, T., Kinsel, M. J., Else, J. G., Silvestri, G., Goodall, J., Sharp, P. M., Shaw, G. M., Pusey, A., E. & Hahn, B. H. (2009). Increased mortality and AIDS-like immunopathology in wild chimpanzees infected with SIVcpz. Nature 460:515-519. get pdf

Oates, J., C. Tutin, T. Humle, M. Wilson, J. Baillie, Z. Balmforth, A. Blom, C. Boesch, D. Cox and T. Davenport (2009). Pan troglodytes, IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. get pdf

2008

Emery Thompson, M., M. L. Wilson, G. Gobbo, & A. E. Pusey. (2008). Hyperprogesteronemia in response to Vitex fischeri consumption in wild chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii). American Journal of Primatology 70(11):1064-1071 get pdf

Liu, W., M. Worobey, Y. Li, B. F. Keele, F. Bibollet-Ruche, Y. Guo, P. A. Goepfert, M. L. Santiago, J. N. Ndjango, C. Neel, S. L. Clifford, C. Sanz, S. Kamenya, M. L. Wilson, A. E. Pusey, N. Gross-Camp, C. Boesch, V. Smith, K. Zamma, M. A. Huffman, J. Mitani, D. P. Watts, M. Peeters, G. M. Shaw, W. M. Switzer,, P. M. Sharp, & B. H. Hahn. (2008). Molecular ecology and natural history of simian foamy virus infection in wild-living chimpanzees. PLoS Pathogens 4(7):e1000097 get pdf

Pusey, A. E., C. Murray, W. R. Wallauer, M. L. Wilson, & E. Wroblewski. (2008). Severe aggression among female chimpanzees at Gombe National Park, Tanzania. International Journal of Primatology 29(4): 949-973.  get pdf

Pusey, A. E., M. L. Wilson & D. A. Collins. (2008). Human impacts, disease risk, and population dynamics in the chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 70(8): 738-744. get pdf

Williams, J. M., E. V. Lonsdorf, M. L. Wilson, J. Schumacher-Stankey, J. Goodall, & A. E. Pusey. (2008). Causes of death in the Kasekela chimpanzees of Gombe National Park, Tanzania. American Journal of Primatology 70(8): 766-777. get pdf

2007

Pusey, A. E., L. P. Pintea, M. L. Wilson, S. Kamenya and J. Goodall (2007). The contribution of long-term research at Gombe National Park to chimpanzee conservation.  Conservation Biology 21(3): 623-634. get pdf

Takehisa, J., M. Kraus, J. M. Decker, Y. Li, B. F. Keele, F. Bibollet-Ruche, K. P. Zammit, Z. Weng, M. L. Santiago, S. Kamenya, M. L. Wilson, A. E. Pusey, E. Bailes, P. M. Sharp, G. M. Shaw & B. H. Hahn (2007). Generation of infectious molecular clones of simian immunodeficiency virus from fecal population sequences of wild-living chimpanzees. Journal of Virology 81(14): 7463-7475. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (2007) Intergroup aggression in wild primates. (Introduction to special issue on intergroup aggression.) Behaviour 144(12): 1469-1471. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., M. D. Hauser & R. W. Wrangham. (2007). Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) modify grouping and vocal behaviour in response to location-specific risk. Behaviour 144(12): 1621-1653. get pdf

2006

Wrangham, R. W., M. L. Wilson & M. N. Muller (2006). Comparative rates of violence in chimpanzees and humans. Primates 47(1): 14-26. get pdf

2005

Gombe Stream Research Centre Annual Report (2005). get pdf

2004

Gombe Stream Research Centre Annual Report (2004). get pdf

Wrangham, R. W. & M. L. Wilson (2004). Collective violence: Comparisons between youths and chimpanzees. Ann. N. Y. Acad. Sci. 1036: 1-25. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., W. R. Wallauer, & A. E. Pusey (2004). New cases of intergroup violence among chimpanzees in Gombe National Park. International Journal of Primatology 25(3): 523-549. get pdf

2003

Wilson, M. L. (2003). Environmental factors and aggression in non-human primates. Neurobiology of Aggression: Understanding and Preventing Violence. M. Mattson, Ed., Totowa, NJ, The Humana Press, Inc.: 167-190. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. & R. W. Wrangham (2003). Intergroup relations in chimpanzees. Annual Review of Anthropology. W. H. Durham. Palo Alto, CA, Annual Reviews Inc. 32: 363-92. get pdf

2002

Wilson, M. L., Britton, N. F. & Franks, N. R. (2002). Chimpanzees and the mathematics of battle. Proceedings of the Royal Society of  London, Series B, 269, 1107-1112. get pdf

2001

Wilson, M. L. (2001). Imbalances of power: How chimpanzees respond to the threat of intergroup aggression Ph. D. Thesis, Harvard University. get pdf

Wilson, M. L., M. D. Hauser & R. W. Wrangham (2001). Does participation in intergroup conflict depend on numerical assessment, range location, or rank for wild chimpanzees? Animal Behaviour 61(6): 1203-1216. get pdf

2000

Wrangham, R. W., M. L. Wilson, B. A. Hare & N. D. Wolfe (2000). Chimpanzee predation and the ecology of microbial exchange. Microbial Ecology in Health and Disease 12(3): 186-188. get pdf

1990s

Wilson, M. L. (1997). Monkey marriage and human utopias. Harvard Vision: Student Essays on Our Collective Future. B. L. Ebert, Ed. Cambridge, MA, The Dipylon Press. Vol. V: 91-105. get pdf

Wilson, M. L. (1997). Great Ape Societies. (Book review). Endeavour. 21: (1): 47. (Mistakenly attributed to Margo Wilson; correction in Endeavour. 22: (1))

Alberts, S. C., J. Altmann, & M. L. Wilson (1996).  Mate guarding constrains foraging activity of male baboons. Animal Behaviour. 51: 1269-1277. get pdf

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