Biography:Amy Parish

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Short description: Biological Anthropologist, Primatologist
Amy Parish
Alma materUniversity of Michigan University of California, Davis
EmployerUniversity of Southern California
Known forBonobos Studies
Darwinian Feminism

Amy Parish is a Biological Anthropologist, Primatologist, and Darwinian Feminist. She has taught at the University of Southern California in the Gender Studies and Anthropology departments since 1999. She is recognised as being a world leading expert in bonobo studies.

Education

Parish completed an undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan in 1989.[1] She received her Masters of Science from the University of California-Davis in 1990, where she completed her PhD.[2] Her dissertation focussed on sociosexual behaviour and the female-female relationships of bonobos, under the supervision of Sarah Blaffer Hrdy.[2]

Research

After graduating UCD, Parish moved to University College London, where she worked with Volker Sommer on behavioural patterns of animals.[3] During this time Parish became an expert on bonobos.[4][5] Whilst studying bonobos at San Diego's Wild Animal Park, she demonstrated a distinct preference of bonobo females for each other's company.[6] Parish moved to the University of Giessen in Germany, where she focussed on reciprocity.[7]

Parish uses an evolutionary approach to understand human behaviour.[8] In 1999 Parish joined the University of Southern California.[9] At USC she has taught eighteen different topics in across a range of disciplines, including Anthropology, Gender Studies, Arts and Letters, Health and Humanities, School of Education, Psychology.[10] She taught a course on "love, marriage and the experience of being a wife and on the cultural impact of Darwin’s theories".[11]

In 2012 she gave a talk at the Natural History Museum, where she revealed "bonobos have more sex, in more ways, and for more reasons, than most humans can imagine".[12] Whilst at Wilhelma, a zoo in Stuttgart, she observed "two females attack a male at the Stuttgart Zoo in Germany and bit his penis in half".[13] In 2013 Parish spoke at World Vasectomy Day about the Evolution of Contraception.[14] In 2016 she gave a keynote talk at the In2In Thinking Forum, "Apes, Power, and Sex: Why We Make War Not Love".[15]

Alongside research, Parish teaches English at La Jolla Country Day School.[16][17]

Darwinian feminism

For centuries, the mainly male evolutionary scientists overlooked the significance of female animals behaviour; treating it as a passive constant in a drama dominated by aggressive males.[18] Darwinian Feminism began when Parish and her then supervisor, Sarah Hrdy, began to reevaluate animal behavior.[1] Their goal has been simple; to pay equal attention to male and female interests.[18] In Bonobos, Parish found a matriarchal society, which she thinks "should give hope to the human feminist movement".[19][13] Parish was featured in Angela Saini's 2017 book Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong and the New Research That’s Rewriting the Story.[20][21]

Parish has been featured in Ms Magazine, as well as on the television Nova, National Geographic Explorer and Discovery Channel.[18][22] Her research formed part of the PBS evolution library for teachers and students.[23] She regularly gives public talks about her research.[24][10]

Parish is a fellow of the Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities.[25] She is on the board of the Kids Eco Club.[26] She is the scientific advisor for the Bonobo Conservation Initiative.[27][28]

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bonobos Use the Power of Female Friendship to Overthrow Male Hierarchy" (in en-us). Broadly. 2017-05-02. https://broadly.vice.com/en_us/article/xwqdnw/bonobos-use-the-power-of-female-friendship-to-overthrow-male-hierarchy. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Parish, Amy Randall (1996-03-01). "Female relationships in bonobos(Pan paniscus)" (in en). Human Nature 7 (1): 61–96. doi:10.1007/BF02733490. ISSN 1045-6767. PMID 24203252. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02733490. 
  3. ↑ Sommer, Volker; Parish, Amy R. (2010). "Living Differences" (in en). Homo Novus – A Human Without Illusions. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 19–33. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-12142-5_3. ISBN 9783642121418. 
  4. ↑ Parish, Amy R.; De Waal, Frans B. M.; Haig, David (2000-04-01). "The Other "Closest Living Relative": How Bonobos (Pan paniscus) Challenge Traditional Assumptions about Females, Dominance, Intra- and Intersexual Interactions, and Hominid Evolution" (in en). Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 907 (1): 97–113. doi:10.1111/j.1749-6632.2000.tb06618.x. ISSN 1749-6632. Bibcode: 2000NYASA.907...97P. 
  5. ↑ Hare, Brian; Yamamoto, Shinya (2017). Bonobos : unique in mind, brain and behavior. [Oxford, United Kingdom]. ISBN 978-0198728511. OCLC 988167775. 
  6. ↑ de Waal, F. B. M. (1997). Bonobo : the forgotten ape. Lanting, Frans.. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 978-0520216518. OCLC 35450429. https://archive.org/details/bonoboforgottena0000waal. 
  7. ↑ "Indiana State University: Darwin". http://www2.indstate.edu/darwin/womeninscience2009.htm. 
  8. ↑ "First Fridays - February 3, 2012". 2011-11-01. https://nhm.org/site/activities-programs/first-fridays/february-2012. 
  9. ↑ "The Evolution of Beauty" (in en). https://www.lapl.org/collections-resources/e-media/podcasts/aloud/evolution-beauty. 
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology | UCLA -- The Curious Naturalist Seminar Series" (in en). https://www.eeb.ucla.edu/darwin_speakers.php?l=3. 
  11. ↑ "Bella DePaulo, Amy Parish, Marc Solomon, moderated by Dan Segal | The Humanities Institute" (in en). 8 April 2010. http://www.scrippscollege.edu/hi/2010-spring/being-single. 
  12. ↑ "Bonobo expert talks evolution, sex and feminism". Southern California Public Radio. 2012-02-09. http://www.scpr.org/programs/offramp/2012/02/09/22474/bonobo-expert-amy-parish-talks-sex-and-feminism-at/. 
  13. ↑ 13.0 13.1 Angier, Natalie (2016-09-10). "In the Bonobo World, Female Camaraderie Prevails" (in en-US). The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/bonobos-apes-matriarchy.html. 
  14. ↑ "The evolution of contraception with Amy Parish - World Vasectomy Day" (in en). https://vimeo.com/80326820. 
  15. ↑ David, Ariane (2016-06-21), Apes, Power, and Sex: Why We Make War Not Love - Part 1, https://vimeo.com/171672307, retrieved 2018-02-03 
  16. ↑ "English teacher Amy Parish Discusses Bonobo Apes" (in en). La Jolla Country Day School. 2016-09-13. https://www.ljcds.org/page/news-detail-?pk=1053205. 
  17. ↑ Kaplan, Jacob. "Getting to know the Country Day faculty: Dr. Parish, anthropologist and English teacher" (in en-US). The Palette. https://ljcdspalette.org/1198/spotlights/keeping-up-with-country-day-faculty-dr-parish-an-anthropologist-and-english-teacher/. 
  18. ↑ 18.0 18.1 18.2 Moser, Kim. "Jessica Seigel -- Print". http://www.jessicaseigel.com/articles/bonobo.shtml. 
  19. ↑ "Living on Earth: The Make Love, Not War Species". http://www.loe.org/shows/segments.html?programID=05-P13-00043&segmentID=7. 
  20. ↑ "Scientists assumed that patriarchy was only natural. Bonobos proved them wrong" (in en-US). Quartz. https://qz.com/1033621/scientists-assumed-that-patriarchy-was-only-natural-bonobos-proved-them-wrong/. 
  21. ↑ Saini, Angela (2017). Inferior : how science got women wrong and the new research that's rewriting the story. Boston. ISBN 978-0807071700. OCLC 965781304. 
  22. ↑ "The Last Great Ape" (in en). http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/transcripts/3403_bonobos.html. 
  23. ↑ "Evolution: Library: Chimps And Bonobos". http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/07/3/l_073_03.html. 
  24. ↑ "Other Minds: The Octopus, the Sea, and the Deep Origins of Consciousness" (in en-US). Library Foundation of Los Angeles. http://lfla.org/event/other-minds-the-octopus-the-sea-and-the-deep-origins-of-consciousness/. 
  25. ↑ "List of Fellows > Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities > USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences" (in en). http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/laih/fellow-roster.cfm?fellowId=75. 
  26. ↑ "Board Members" (in en-US). http://www.kidsecoclub.org/board/. 
  27. ↑ "Living on Earth: July 7, 2006". http://www.loe.org/shows/shows.html?programID=06-p13-00027. 
  28. ↑ "Bonobo Conservation Initiative » The BCI Team". http://www.bonobo.org/about-us/team/. 



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