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Julia Arenson is a Research Fellow at Yale University, affiliated with the Department of Anthropology and the Yale Peabody Museum. Her research focuses on the evolution of cercopithecoid monkeys, particularly systematics, skeletal functional morphology, and biogeography. She earned her PhD in Biological Anthropology from the City University of New York (2024), where her dissertation explored colobine monkey phylogeny and biogeography using total-evidence analysis. Currently, she investigates Congo Basin primate biodiversity to inform conservation efforts.
Her work combines morphological and molecular approaches to study primate evolution, with a focus on fossil and extant taxa. Key projects include describing new fossil guenon species and analyzing Dryas monkey specimens for taxonomic and locomotor insights. Arenson’s research bridges paleontology, systematics, and conservation biology, emphasizing the interplay between morphology and environmental adaptation.
Recent publications highlight her contributions to understanding primate cranial variation in captive vs. wild populations, reevaluating fossil taxonomy, and reconstructing evolutionary histories of colobine monkeys. Her findings advance both taxonomic accuracy and conservation strategies for endangered primates.
