Catalina I. Villamil

I am Associate Director of the Laboratory of Primate Morphology at the Caribbean Primate Research Center.

I finished my PhD at New York University in 2017. After, I was Visiting Assistant Professor at the Dept. of Anthropology at Dickinson College, and in 2018 joined Universidad Central del Caribe as Assistant Professor of Anatomy until 2024.

  • New paper – Heritability in the vertebral column of the Rhesus macaque

    New paper out in American Journal of Primatology as part of a special issue on the Cayo Santiago macaques. With my colleague Emily Middleton and lab member Jeziel Negrón, we found moderate to strong heritability of many aspects of vertebral anatomy. However, these vary by vertebral region. We also found significant size effects! You can…