Need to break up with someone? Baboons have found a good way to do it, study finds

Alumnus Brian Lerch was recently featured on NPR.  His work is part of the MS thesis he did in Dr. Karen Abbot’s lab. The NPR story and interview can be found here: https://www.npr.org/2021/12/14/1064090184/need-to-break-up-with-someone-baboons-have-found-a-good-way-to-do-it-study-finds

Want to learn more? The research article “Better baboon break-ups: collective decision theory of complex social network fissions” can be read here: https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2021.2060?url_ver=Z39.88-2003&rfr_id=ori:rid:crossref.org&rfr_dat=cr_pub%20%200pubmed