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Lori Marino, Ph.D. Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): volution Lori Marino, Ph.D. is currently a faculty member in Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University in Atlanta. She is also a Research Associate in the Living Links Center for Advanced Study of Ape and Human Evolution at Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center and in the Division of Mammals at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, D.C. Dr. Marino received her Ph.D. in Biological Psychology from the State University of New York at Albany in 1995. Dr. Marino’s research program in evolutionary and comparative behavioral neuroscience is focused on the study of the biological and evolutionary basis of neural and cognitive complexity in mammals. She employs comparative studies of brain morphology and development, quantitative analyses of brain-behavior relationships, paleoneurological studies of fossil mammals, and experimental methods in comparative cognition as ways to reconstruct patterns of mammalian brain evolution. For the past seven years she has focused her efforts on applying these various approaches to the study of cetacean (dolphin, whale, and porpoise) and primate brain and behavioral evolution. Dr. Marino recently received a three-year grant from the National Science Foundation to study endocranial morphology in fossil cetaceans and a grant from The SETI Institute to study encephalization patterns in mammals. She is the author of over thirty peer-reviewed empirical and theoretical papers and chapters and has given over twenty-six invited talks.
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