Euclid O. (Neal) Smith, Ph.D.

Department of Anthropology
Emory University
212 Geosciences Building
Atlanta, Georgia 30322
Telephone: (404) 321-6591
website:  http: //www.eosmith.com

Education:

Mississippi State University
Degree:             BA., 1969

University of Georgia
Degree:             MA., 1972

Ohio State University
Specialty:         Physical Anthropology, Primate Behavior, Paleoanthropology
Degree:            Ph.D., 1977

2003-date
Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

1983-2003
Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Emory University

1987-1993
Affiliate Scientist, Institute of Primate Research and National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, Kenya

1973-1974
Angaur, Palau Islands, Micronesia.  Initial field study of the ecology and population density of Macaca fascicularis.

1976-1983
Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center Field Station, Emory University.  Study of the effects of psychoactive drugs on the social behavior of group living stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides).

1986-1993
Tana River Primate Reserve, Kenya.  Field study of the behavioral ecology of free-ranging baboons (Papio cynocephalus).

1992-date
Theoretical research on the evolution of human behavior, including research on reproductive strategies among modern humans as a reflection of our evolutionary heritage.  Research on evolutionary origins of modern human medical conditions.

1978-1981 
Grant No. 1 R01 DA02128, National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Effects of Drugs in Social Groups of Primates”

1981-1982 
Biomedical Research Support Grant, Emory University Graduate School, “Effects of Drugs in Social Groups of Primates”

1981-1982 
Grant-in-Aid, Emory University Graduate School, “Behavioral Effects of Drugs on Captive Group-Living Primates”

1982-1985 
Grant No. 2 R01 DA02128 04A1, National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Effects of Drugs on Group Behavior”

1985-1986 
Grant No. 5 R01 DA02128 06A1, National Institute on Drug Abuse, “Effects of Drugs on Group Behavior”

1986-1987 
Biomedical Research Support Grant, Emory University Graduate School, “Lactose Absorption and Behavior in Infant Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)”

1986-1988 
Grant No. BNS-8610531, National Science Foundation, “Behavioral Ecology of the Tana River Red Colobus”

1987-1990 
Grant, Emory University and Yerkes Regional Primate Research Center, Tana Primate Project

1988-1989 
Grant, Emory University Research Committee, “Male Migration in Savanna Baboons (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus)”

1990-1992 
Grant No.  BNS-8921006, National Science Foundation, “Male Migration in Yellow Baboons (Papio cynocephalus) in the Tana Primate Reserve”

1998-1999 
Grant, Emory University Teaching Fund, “Technology in the Classroom,”

1999-2000 
Grant, Emory University, Information Technology Division, “Integration of Real Time Video into Classroom Lectures”

2000 Grant,
Emory University, International Travel Fund Committee, declined

1978-1989
American Men and Women of Science

1982
Who’s Who in Georgia

1983-1994
Who’s Who in the South and Southwest

1994-1995
President, Sigma Xi, Emory Chapter, The Scientific Research Society

1984-1994 

Associate Editor, American Journal of Primatology

1978-date
 Corresponding Associate Commentator, Behavioral and Brain Sciences

1978-date
Corresponding Associate, Current Anthropology

1980-date
Occasional Reviewer, American Journal of Physical Anthropology, International Journal of Primatology, Science, American Anthropologist, American Journal of Primatology, Infant Behavior and Development, Evolution of Communication, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press

1987-1989 
Book Review Editor, American Journal of Primatology

American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Association of Physical Anthropologists
Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Human Behavior and Evolution Society
International Society for Behavioral Ecology
International Society for the Study of Human Ethology
Sigma Xi
Society for the Study of Human Biology

1977

Organizer, Symposium on “Social Play in Primates,” Annual Meeting, Animal Behavior Society, University Park, Pennsylvania

1977
Rapporteur, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Symposium, “Ecological Influences on Social Organization:  Evolution and Adaptation”, Burg-Wartenstein, Austria

1978
Invited lecture, “Primate Ecology and Social Organization,” Department of Anthropology, University of California, Los Angeles, California

1979
Invited lecture, “Causes of Aggression,” Kennesaw College, Kennesaw, Georgia

1979
Consultant, Naval Aerospace Medical Research Laboratory, Pensacola, Florida

1980
Invited lecture, “Ethology, Primatology and the Social Sciences,” Department of Anthropology, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee

1981
Organizer, Symposium on “Methodological Issues in Nonhuman Primate Behavior Research, 4th Annual Meeting, American Society of Primatologists, San Antonio, Texas

1981
Invited lecture, “Allopaternal Behavior in Stumptail Macaques,” Department of Anthropology, California State University, Northridge, California.

1982
Invited participant, Symposium on “Primate Ethopharmacology:  Models for Neuropsychiatric Disorders”, IXth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Atlanta, Georgia

1983
Invited participant, Symposium on “Evolutionary Basis of Human Rights,” Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia

1984
Invited participant, Social Sciences Research Council Conference on “Biosocial Perspectives on Child Abuse and Neglect,” Breckinridge Conference Center, York, Maine

1984
Acting Program Chair, 6th Annual Meeting, American Society of Primatologists, Arcata, California

1990
Invited lecture, “Sociobiology and Anthropology:  The Baby and the Bathwater Revisited”, California State University, Fullerton, California

1990
Co-organizer (with D.S. Sprague), Symposium on “Migration and Dispersal:  Behavioral, Ecological and Genetic Correlates”, XIIIth Congress of the International Primatological Society, Kyoto, Japan

1990
Invited lecture, “Male Migration, Dispersal and Reproductive Success in Savanna Baboons”, Institute of Human Biology, Freie Universität, Berlin, West Germany

1993
Co-organizer (with James McKenna), Symposium on “Evolutionary Medicine:  New Perspectives and Opportunities,” Annual Meeting, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Boston, Massachusetts

1993
Invited participant, Symposium on “Evolutionary Medicine and Anthropology” Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC

1997
Invited participant, Symposium on “Thirty Years of Biological Anthropology in the South, Annual Meeting Southern Anthropological Society, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

1999
Invited participant, Symposium on “Integrative Medicine,” "Evolution and Medicine:  In Sickness and In Health" Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa.

2000
Invited participant, Roundtable on "Darwinian Medicine:  Applying Evolutionary Thinking To Medical Research and Decision Making," Annual Meeting of the Association for Politics and Life Sciences, Washington, DC.

2001
Invited keynote address, Meeting of the Atlanta Medical Writers Association, Atlanta, GA

2001
Invited participant, Symposium on “Anthropology and Addiction” at the 100^th Annual Meeting, American Anthropological Association, Washington, DC.

Journal Articles:

(Selected articles from 1972- 1995.  Complete listing from 1995)

Poirier, F.E. & Smith, E.O., 1974.  Socializing functions of primate play.  American Zoologist 14: 275-287.  Reprinted 1978 In:  Evolution of Play Behavior, D. Müller-Schwarze (ed.).  Dowden, Hutchinson and Ross, New York, pp. 112-124. View

Poirier, F.E. & Smith, E.O., 1974.  The crab-eating macaques (Macaca fascicularis) of Angaur Island, Palau, Micronesia.  Folia Primatologica 22: 258-306. View

Smith, E.O. & Peffer-Smith, P.G., 1982.  Triadic interactions in captive Barbary macaques (Macaca sylvanus, Linnaeus, 1758):  “agonistic buffering”? American Journal of Primatology 2: 99-107. View

Peffer-Smith, P.G, Smith, E.O. & Byrd, L.D., 1983.  Effects of d-amphetamine on self-aggression and posturing in stumptail macaques.  Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior 40: 313-320. View

Murray, R.D. & Smith, E O., 1983.  The role of dominance and intrafamilial bonding in the avoidance of close inbreeding.  Journal of Human Evolution 12: 481- 486. View

Smith, E.O., 1984.  Non-seasonal breeding patterns in stumptail macaques(Macaca arctoides).  Primates 25: 117-122. View

Smith, E.O. & Byrd, L.D., 1984.  Contrasting effects of d-amphetamine on affiliation and aggression in monkeys.  Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior 20:  255-260. View

Whitten, P.L. & Smith, E.O., 1984.  Patterns of wounding in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides).  Primates 25:  326-336. View

Smith, E.O. & Byrd, L.D., 1985.  d-Amphetamine induced changes in social interaction patterns.  Pharmacology Biochemistry & Behavior 22:  135-139. View

Murray, R.D., Bour, E.S. & Smith, E.O., 1985.  Female menstrual cyclicity and sexual behavior in stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides).  International Journal of Primatology 6:  101-113. View

Dahl, J.F. & Smith, E.O., 1985.  Assessing variation in the social behavior of stumptail macaques using thermal criteria.  American Journal of Physical Anthropology 68:  467-477. View

Smith, E.O., 1987.  Deception and evolutionary biology.  Cultural Anthropology 2:  50-64. View

Smith, E.O. & Whitten, P.L., 1988.  Triadic interactions in savanna-dwelling baboons.  International Journal of Primatology 9:  409-416. View

Smith, E.O., 1993.  Dispersal in Sub-Saharan baboons.  Folia Primatologica 59: 177-185. View

Condit, V. & Smith, E.O., 1994.  Predation on a yellow baboon (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus) by a lioness in the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya.  American Journal of Primatology 33 (1): 57-64. View

Condit, V. & Smith, E.O., 1994.  Yellow baboon labor and parturition at the Tana River National Primate Reserve, Kenya.  American Journal of Primatology 33 (1): 51-55. View

Stavisky, R., Russell, E., Stallings, J., Smith, E.O., Worthman, C.M. & Whitten, P.L., 1995.  Fecal steroid analysis of ovarian cycles in free-ranging baboons.  American Journal of Primatology 36 (4):  285-297. View

Bentley-Condit, V., & Smith, E.O., 1997.  Female reproductive parameters of the Tana River yellow baboons.  International Journal of Primatology 18 (4): 581-596. View

St. George, D., Witte, S.M., Turner, T.R., Weiss, M.L., Phillips-Conroy, J., Smith, E.O. & Rogers, J., 1998.  Microsatellite variation in two populations of free-ranging yellow baboons (Papio hamadryas cynocephalus).  International Journal of Primatology 19 (2):  273-285. View

Smith, E.O. & Helms, W S., 1999.  Natural Selection and Evolution.  Foot and Ankle 20 (1):  55-57. View

Bentley-Condit, V. & Smith, E.O. 1999.  Female dominance and social relationships among yellow baboons. American Journal of Primatology 47:  321-344. View

Smith, E.O., 1999.  Yawning:  An evolutionary perspective.  Human Evolution 14 (3):  191-198. View

Smith, E.O., 1999.  High heels and evolution.  Psychology, Evolution, and Gender 1(3): 245-277. View

Bentley-Condit, V., Moore, T. & Smith, E.O. 2001. Analysis of infant handling and the effects of female rank among Tana River adult female yellow baboons (Papio cynocephalus cynocephalus) using permutation/randomization tests. American Journal of Primatology 55(2): 117-130. View

Smith, E.O. & Lende, D. H., 2001, Evolution and substance abuse.  Medicina delle Tossicodipendeneze (Italian Journal of Addiction) 31: 19-28. View

Lende, D. H. & Smith, E.O., 2002.  Evolution meets biopsychosociality: an analysis of addictive behavior.  Addiction 97: 447-458. View

Book Chapters:

(Selected)

Smith, E.O., 1978.  A historical view on the study of play:  Statement of the problem. In:  Social Play in Primates, E.O. Smith (ed.), Academic Press, New York, pp. 1-32. View

Smith, E.O. & Fraser, M.D., 1978.  Social play in captive rhesus macaques, Macaca mulatta: a cluster analysis.  In:  Social Play in Primates, E.O. Smith, (ed.).  Academic Press, New York, pp. 79-112. View

Smith, E.O. & Byrd, L.D., 1983.  Studying the behavioral effects of drugs in group-living nonhuman primates.  In:  Ethopharmacology:  Primate Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, K. A. Miczek (ed.).  Alan R. Liss, New York, pp. 1-31. View

Smith, E.O. & Peffer-Smith, P.G., 1984.  Adult male-immature interactions in captive stumptail macaques (Macaca arctoides). In:  Primate Paternalism, D.M. Taub (ed.). Van Nostrand Reinhold, New York, pp. 88-112. View

Smith, E.O. & Byrd, L.D., 1987. External and internal influences on aggression in captive group-living monkeys. In:  Child Abuse and Neglect:  Biosocial Dimensions, R. J. Gelles and J. B. Lancaster (eds.). Aldine de Gruyter, Hawthorne, New York, pp. 175-199. View

Smith, E.O., 1999. Evolution, addiction and substance abuse, In:  Evolutionary Medicine, Trevathan, W., Smith, E.O., & McKenna, J. eds., Oxford University Press, New York., pp. 375-405. View

Lende, D.H. & Smith, E.O. 2004. Biopsychosociality and substance abuse. In: Evolutionary Medicine, Canali, S., ed., Aperion, Bologna. View

Books
Smith, E O. ed., 1978. Social Play in Primates. Academic Press, New York. View

Bernstein, I. S. & Smith, E.O. eds., 1979. Primate Ecology and Human Origins: Ecological Influences on Social Organization. Garland Publishing Co., New York. View

Trevathan, W., Smith, E.O., & McKenna, J.J., eds., 1999. Evolutionary Medicine. Oxford University Press, New York. View

Smith, E.O., 2002.  When Biology and Culture Collide: Why We Are Stressed, Depressed, and Self-Obsessed. Rutgers University Press, Piscataway, New Jersey.

Smith, E.O., in preparation, An Introduction to Biological Anthropology, Cambridge University Press (Scheduled completion December 2005).

Smith, E.O., in preparation, Lifestyle Terrorism

 

Last revised October 27, 2004