Mary Brooke McElreath
Department of Human Behavior, Ecology and Culture
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology
Deutscher Platz 6
04103 Leipzig
phone: +49 (0) 341 3550 330
e-mail:
mary_mcelreath@[>>> Please remove the text! <<<]eva.mpg.de
About me
I am an evolutionary ecologist studying animal behavior and cultural traditions. My research aims to understand how animal societies, and the individuals that comprise them, evolve and adapt their behaviors to changing environmental and social conditions. My taxonomic focus includes primates and birds. The questions I address have focused on mating, social, and dispersal systems, as well as on innovation, social learning, and cultural traditions. Current research is focused on initiating a new field site dedicated to understanding the socioecology of the white-fronted capuchin (Cebus malitiosus) in Parque Nacional Natural Tayrona, Colombia.
Publications
2025
Smeele, S. Q., Senar, J. C., McElreath, M. B., & Aplin, L. M. (2025). The effect of social structure on vocal flexibility in monk parakeets. Royal Society Open Science, 12(5): 241717. |
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Sosa, S., McElreath, M. B., Redhead, D., & Ross, C. T. (2025). Robust Bayesian analysis of animal networks subject to biases in sampling intensity and censoring. Methods in Ecology and Evolution, 16(6), 1273-1294. |
Open Access2024
Smeele, S. Q., Tyndel, S. A., Aplin, L. M., & McElreath, M. B. (2024). Multilevel Bayesian analysis of monk parakeet contact calls shows dialects between European cities. Behavioral Ecology, 35(1): arad093. |
2023
Smeele, S. Q., Senar, J. C., Aplin, L. M., & McElreath, M. B. (2023). Evidence for vocal signatures and voice-prints in a wild parrot. Royal Society Open Science, 10(10): 230835. |
2022
Smeele, S. Q., Conde, D. A., Baudisch, A., Bruslund, S., Iwaniuk, A., Staerk, J., Wright, T. F., Young, A. M., McElreath, M. B., & Aplin, L. (2022). Coevolution of relative brain size and life expectancy in parrots. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 289(1971): 20212397. |
2019
Kühl, H. S., Boesch, C., Kulik, L., Haas, F., Arandjelovic, M., Dieguez, P., Bocksberger, G., McElreath, M. B., Agbor, A., Angedakin, S., Ayimisin, A. E., Bailey, E., Barubiyo, D., Bessone, M., Brazzola, G., Chancellor, R., Cohen, H., Coupland, C., Danquah, E., Deschner, T., Dowd, D., Dunn, A., Egbe, V. E., Eshuis, H., Goedmakers, A., Granjon, A.-C., Head, J. S., Hedwig, D., Hermans, V., Imong, I., Jeffery, K. J., Jones, S., Junker, J., Kadam, P., Kambere, M., Kambi, M., Kienast, I., Kujirakwinja, D., Langergraber, K., Lapuente, J., Larson, B., Lee, K., Leinert, V., Llana, M., Maretti, G., Marrocoli, S., Martin, R., Mbi, T. J., Meier, A., Morgan, B., Morgan, D., Mulindahabi, F., Murai, M., Neil, E., Niyigaba, P., Ormsby, L. J., Orume, R., Pacheco, L., Piel, A., Preece, J., Regnaut, S., Rundus, A., Sanz, C., van Schijndel, J., Sommer, V., Stewart, F., Tagg, N., Vendras, E., Vergnes, V., Welsh, A., Wessling, E. G., Willie, J., Wittig, R. M., Yuh, Y. G., Yurkiw, K., Zuberbuehler, K., & Kalan, A. K. (2019). Human impact erodes chimpanzee behavioral diversity. Science, 363(6434), 1453-1455. |
2018
Clarke, P. M. R., McElreath, M. B., Barrett, B. J., Mabry, K. E., & McElreath, R. (2018). The evolution of bequeathal in stable habitats. Ecology and Evolution, 8(21), 10594-10607. |
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McElreath, M. B., Boesch, C., Kühl, H. S., & McElreath, R. (2018). Complex dynamics from simple cognition: The primary ratchet effect in animal culture. Evolutionary Behavioral Sciences, 12(3), 191-202. |
2017
Wells, C. P., Tomalty, K. M., Floyd, C. H., McElreath, M. B., May, B. P., & Vuren, D. H. V. (2017). Determinants of multiple paternity in a fluctuating population of ground squirrels. Behavioral Ecology and Sociobiology, 71(2): 42. |