James P. Higham
Professor of Anthropology
Ph.D. 2007, University of Roehampton; M.Sc. 2002, University of Oxford; B.A. 2001, University of Cambridge
Email: jhigham@nyu.edu
Phone: 212-992-7477
Office: 402
Primate Reproductive Ecology and Evolution Laboratory
Research Interests
- sexual selection
- behavioral endocrinology
- communication
Other Affiliations
Professor, NYU Department of Anthropology
Faculty, New York Consortium in Evolutionary Primatology
Core Faculty, MS in Human Skeletal Biology
Current Research
Rhesus Macaques on Cayo Santiago, Puerto Rico
Evolution of Guenon Face Patterns
Selected Publications
As Editor
Higham, J.P. & Roney, J. (Eds). 2017. Field endocrinology of nonhuman and human primates.
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
Patterson, S.K., Petersen, R., Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Lea, A., & Higham, J.P.(2023). Natural animal populations as model systems for understanding early life adversity effects on aging.
Integrative and Comparative Biology In Press.
Aung, T., Hill, A.K., Pfefferle, D., McLester, E., Fuller, J., Lawrence, J.M., Garcia-Nisa, I., Kendal, R.L., Petersdorf, M., Higham, J.P., Galat, G., Lameira, A.R., Apicella, C.L., Barelli, C., Glenn, M.E., Ramos-Fernandez, G., Puts, D.A. (2023). Group size and mating system predict sex differences in vocal fundamental frequency in anthropoid primates.
Nature Communications In Press.
Peterson, S.M., Watowich, M.M., Renner, L., Martin, S., Offenberg, E., Lea, A., Montague, M.J., Higham, J.P., Snyder-Mackler, N., Neuringer, M., & Ferguson, B. (2023). Genetic variants in melanogenesis proteins TYRP1 and TYR are associated with the golden rhesus macaque phenotype.
G3 Genes|Genomes|Genetics In Press.
Fernandes, A.G., Alexopoulos, P., Burgos-Rodriguez, A., Martinez, M.I., Cayo Biobank Research Unit, Ghassibi, M., Leskov, I., Brent, L.J.N., Snyder-Mackler, N., Danias, J., Wollstein, G., Higham, J.P. ‘ & Melin, A.D. (2023). Age-related differences in ocular features of a naturalistic free-ranging population of rhesus macaques Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science, 64(7): 3
‘These authors contributed equally to this work
Higham, J.P., Cooper, E.B., Whalen, C., Stahl-Hennig, C., Giavedoni, L.D., & Heistermann, M. (2023). Urinary cytokine measurements do not reflect surgery-induced inflammation in rhesus macaques.
American Journal of Primatology e23506.
Higham, J.P. (2023). The sexual selection landscape and sexually-selected traits of the crested macaque (Macaca nigra).
International Journal of Primatology.
Alvarez-Estape, M., Pawar, H., Fontsere, C., Trujillo, A. E., Gunson, J. L., Bergl, R. A., Bermejo, M., Linder, J.M., McFarland, K., Oates, J.F., Sunderland-Groves, J.L., Orkin, Higham, J.P., Viaud-Martinez, K.A., Lizano, E., and Marques-Bonet, T. (2023). Past connectivity but recent inbreeding in cross river gorillas determined using whole genomes from single hairs.
Genes, 14(3), 743.
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.
Higham, J.P. (2022). Evolution: Kin selection spreads eLife 11:e84142.
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.
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.
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.
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). Associations with disease and the social environment in the aging brain transcriptome.
Nature Neuroscience 25:1714–1723.
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
avez-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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
DeCasien, A.R. & Higham, J.P. (2020). Relative cerebellum size is not sexually dimorphic across primates.
Brain, Behavior and Evolution 95: 93-101
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
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 mulattaperceive 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
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., Winters, S. & Higham, J.P. (2017). Is the red facial coloration of male rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta) subject to intrasexual selection?
Behavioral Ecology 28: 1472-148.
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 58: 83-91
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
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
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
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
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
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
Allen, W.L. & Higham, J.P. (2013). Analyzing visual signals as visual scenes.
American Journal of Primatology 75: 664-682
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
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 colors of monkeys.
In: Darwin’s Roadmap to the Curriculum: Evolutionary Studies in Higher Education. Eds DS Wilson, G Geher, H Mativetsky, AC Gallup. Oxford University Press: New York.
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. In Press
Higham, J.P. & Petersdorf, M. (2017). Sexual swellings.
In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey. In Press
Petersdorf, M. & Higham, J.P. (2017). Mating systems.
In: The International Encyclopedia of Primatology. Wiley Blackwell. Hoboken: New Jersey. In Press
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.
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.
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
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 http://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