Comparative Ethology

Head: Stephen J. Suomi

Research in this group is focused on behavioral, cognitive, and physiological development in humans and in nonhuman primates. The interactions of both genetic and environmental factors are explored in a comparative approach so as to determine the origins, ontogeny, and outcomes of various behavioral phenotypes. Results of experimental studies in nonhuman primates are correlated with the results of longitudinal studies in human infants and their families, as well as with data obtained by physiological and molecular neuroscience techniques. Longitudinal designs are employed to address issues of developmental continuity and change; behavioral and physiological measures in support of multiple levels of analysis are carried out concomitantly.

Resources

• Employee Listing
• E-Mail the Lab: suomis@mail.nih.gov

Units and Sections

• Section on Child and Family Research
  Head: Marc H. Bornstein
• Section on Comparative Behavioral Genetics
  Head: Stephen J. Suomi
• Section on Social and Emotional Development
  Head: Stephen J. Suomi
• Unit on Developmental Neuroethology
  Head: John D. Newman