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Hunter College: New York, US

2024-08 to present | Assistant Professor (Psychology)
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Kirsty Emma Graham

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, Fife, GB

2020-09 to 2024-07 | Research Fellow (School of Psychology & Neuroscience)
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Kirsty Emma Graham

University of York: York, North Yorkshire, GB

2017-07 to 2020-08 | Research Associate (postdoctoral) (Psychology)
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Education and qualifications (2)

University of St Andrews: St Andrews, GB

2013-09 to 2017-06 | PhD (School of Psychology & Neuroscience)
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Quest University Canada: Squamish, BC, CA

2008-09 to 2012-05 | Bachelor of Liberal Arts and Science
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Works (35)

The origin of great ape gestural forms

Biological Reviews
2025-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Federico Rossano; Richard T. Moore
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Predictability of next elements in chimpanzee gesture sequences

2024-11-14 | Preprint
Contributors: Alexander Mielke; Gal Badihi; Ed Donnellan; Kirsty E. Graham; Chie Hashimoto; Joseph G. Mine; Alex K. Piel; Alexandra Safryghin; Katie E. Slocombe; Adrian Soldati et al.
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Successful adoption of non-orphaned infant by a parous, nursing female in yaki (Sulawesi crested macaque)

Behaviour
2024-10-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Eve Holden; Antje Engelhardt; Dyah Perwitasari-Farajallah; Katie E. Slocombe
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Shared semantics: Exploring the interface between human and chimpanzee gestural communication

Mind & Language
2024-09 | Journal article
Contributors: Mathew Henderson; Patrick G. Grosz; Kirsty E. Graham; Catherine Hobaiter; Pritty Patel‐Grosz
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Goal-directed bodily signals in birds and frogs

Learning & Behavior
2024-09-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham
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Is it time to get over the X? Assessing the global impact and future of social media conferences in animal behaviour

Animal Behaviour
2024-07 | Journal article
Contributors: Jessica A. Cusick; Ebi Antony George; E.V. (Ginny) Greenway; Mukta Watve; Kirsty Graham; Cassandra L. Raby
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Chimpanzee gestural exhanges share temporal structure with human language

Current Biology
2024-07-22 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Gal Badihi; Kirsty Emma Graham; Charlotte Vicki Christina Grund; Alexandra Safryghin; Adrian Soldati; Ed Donnellan; Chie Hashimoto; Joseph G. Mine; Alex K. Piel; Fiona Stewart et al.
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Many morphs

Behavior Research Methods
2024-03-04 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Alexander Mielke; Gal Badihi; Kirsty Emma Graham; Charlotte Grund; Chie Hashimoto; Alex K. Piel; Alexandra Safryghin; Katie E. Slocombe; Fiona Stewart; Claudia Wilke et al.
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Bonobo gestures, meanings, and context

Bonobos and people at Wamba
2024-01-30 | Book chapter | Author
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Part of ISBN: 9789819947881
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Contributors: Kirsty Emma Graham
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Primate origins of discourse-managing gestures: the case of hand fling

Linguistics Vanguard
2024-01-02 | Journal article
Contributors: Pritty Patel-Grosz; Matthew Henderson; Patrick Georg Grosz; Kirsty Graham; Catherine Hobaiter
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DeepWild: Application of the pose estimation tool DeepLabCut for behaviour tracking in wild chimpanzees and bonobos

Journal of Animal Ecology
2023-08 | Journal article
Contributors: Charlotte Wiltshire; James Lewis‐Cheetham; Viola Komedová; Tetsuro Matsuzawa; Kirsty E. Graham; Catherine Hobaiter
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Many morphs: parsing gesture signals from the noise

2023-08-07 | Preprint
Contributors: Alexander Mielke; Gal Badihi; Kirsty E. Graham; Charlotte Grund; Chie Hashimoto; Alex K. Piel; Alexandra Safryghin; Katie E. Slocombe; Fiona Stewart; Claudia Wilke et al.
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GesturalOrigins: A bottom-up framework for establishing systematic gesture data across ape species

Behavior Research Methods
2023-03-15 | Journal article
Contributors: Charlotte Grund; Gal Badihi; Kirsty E. Graham; Alexandra Safryghin; Catherine Hobaiter
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Towards a great ape dictionary: Inexperienced humans understand common nonhuman ape gestures

PLOS Biology
2023-01-24 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Frans B. M. de Waal; Catherine Hobaiter
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Dialects in leaf-clipping and other leaf-modifying gestures between neighbouring communities of East African chimpanzees

Scientific Reports
2023-01-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Gal Badihi; Kirsty E. Graham; Brittany Fallon; Alexandra Safryghin; Adrian Soldati; Klaus Zuberbühler; Catherine Hobaiter
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Maternal attitudes and behaviours differentially shape infant early life experience: A cross cultural study

PLOS ONE
2022-12-21 | Journal article
Contributors: Eve Holden; Olujide Arije; Joanna C. Buryn-Weitzel; Santa Atim; Hellen Biroch; Ed Donnellan; Kirsty E. Graham; Maggie Hoffman; Michael Jurua; Charlotte V. Knapper et al.
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Recognition of visual kinship signals in chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes) by humans (Homo sapiens).

Journal of Comparative Psychology
2022-11 | Journal article
Contributors: Hella Péter; Marion Laporte; Nicholas E. Newton-Fisher; Vernon Reynolds; Liran Samuni; Adrian Soldati; Linda Vigilant; Jakob Villioth; Kirsty E. Graham; Klaus Zuberbühler et al.
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Are ape gestures like words? Outstanding issues in detecting similarities and differences between human language and ape gesture

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2022-09-26 | Journal article
Contributors: Catherine Hobaiter; Kirsty E. Graham; Richard W. Byrne
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An inclusive venue to discuss behavioural biology research: the first global Animal Behaviour Twitter Conference

Animal Behaviour
2022-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Cassandra L. Raby; Jessica A. Cusick; Ines Fürtbauer; Kirsty E. Graham; Bobby Habig; Mark E. Hauber; Joah R. Madden; Amy V.H. Strauss; Esteban Fernández-Juricic
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A socio-ecological perspective on the gestural communication of great ape species, individuals, and social units

Ethology Ecology & Evolution
2022-05-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Gal Badihi; Alexandra Safryghin; Charlotte Grund; Catherine Hobaiter
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Context, not sequence order, affects the meaning of bonobo (Pan paniscus) gestures

Gesture
2021-09-28 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Kirsty Emma Graham; Takeshi Furuichi; Richard Byrne
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Dominance style is a key predictor of vocal use and evolution across nonhuman primates

Royal Society Open Science
2021-07-28 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: E. Kavanagh; S.E. Street; F.O. Angwela; T.J. Bergman; M.B. Blaszczyk; L.M. Bolt; M. Briseño-Jaramillo; M. Brown; C. Chen-Kraus; Z. Clay et al.
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Detecting joint attention events in mother-infant dyads: Sharing looks cannot be reliably identified by naïve third-party observers

PLOS ONE
2021-07-23 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Ewa Pisula; Joanna C. Buryn-Weitzel; Nicole J. Lahiff; Claudia Wilke; Katie E. Slocombe
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Scratching beneath the surface: intentionality in great ape signal production

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
2020-01-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 0962-8436
Part of ISSN: 1471-2970
Contributors: Kirsty Emma Graham; Claudia Wilke; Nicole J. Lahiff; Kathryn Elizabeth Slocombe
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Gestural communication in the great apes

Encyclopedia of Animal Behavior
2019-02-06 | Book chapter | Author
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Contributors: Kirsty Emma Graham; Cat Hobaiter
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Comparing chimpanzee and bonobo behavior

Psychologist
2018 | Journal article
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Contributors: Graham, K.; Hobaiter, C.
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The psychologists' tree of life

2018-10-22 | Journal article | Author
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Contributors: Cat Hobaiter; Kirsty Emma Graham
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Bonobo and chimpanzee gestures overlap extensively in meaning

PLOS Biology
2018-02-27 | Journal article
Contributors: Kirsty E. Graham; Lars Chittka; Catherine Hobaiter; James Ounsley; Takeshi Furuichi; Richard W. Byrne
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Cases of maternal cannibalism in wild bonobos (Pan paniscus) from two different field sites, Wamba and Kokolopori, Democratic Republic of the Congo

Primates
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Tokuyama, N.; Moore, D.L.; Graham, K.E.; Lokasola, A.; Furuichi, T.
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Great ape gestures: intentional communication with a rich set of innate signals

Animal Cognition
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Byrne, R.W.; Cartmill, E.; Genty, E.; Graham, K.E.; Hobaiter, C.; Tanner, J.
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The gestural repertoire of the wild bonobo (Pan paniscus): a mutually understood communication system

Animal Cognition
2017 | Journal article
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Contributors: Graham, K.E.; Furuichi, T.; Byrne, R.W.
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Conference report on Evolang 11

Journal of Language Evolution
2016 | Journal article
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Long-sightedness in old wild bonobos during grooming

Current Biology
2016 | Journal article
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Contributors: Ryu, H.; Graham, K.E.; Sakamaki, T.; Furuichi, T.
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Foraging behaviour of three primate species in a Costa Rican coastal lowland tropical wet forest

Biodiversity Journal
2013 | Journal article
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Morphology and ecology of Sibon snakes (Squamata: Dipsadidae) from two forests in Central America

Phyllomedusa
2013 | Journal article
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Contributors: Lewis, T.R.; Griffin, R.K.; Grant, P.B.C.; Figueroa, A.; Ray, J.M.; Graham, K.E.; David, G.
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Peer review (6 reviews for 4 publications/grants)

Review activity for Evolutionary psychological science. (1)
Review activity for International journal of primatology. (1)
Review activity for PloS one. (1)
Review activity for Primates. (3)