Explorers at Work: Christopher Schmitt, Field Primatologist

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Explorers at Work: Christopher Schmitt, Field Primatologist
Meet Christopher Schmitt (he/they), an associate professor of anthropology and biology at Boston University, where he is also co-director of the Sensory Morphology and Anthropological Genomics Lab. For the past decade, Schmitt has worked with the International Vervet Research Consortium to better characterize the links between genotype and phenotype for a variety of traits in vervet monkeys.