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American-Canadian anthropologist and primatologist

Linda Marie Fedigan, CM FRSC (born 1949) is a Canadian-based American academic, educator, and Canada Research Chair in Primatology and Bioanthropol at the University of Calgary, Alberta.

In addition, Fedigan is also the Executive Editor of the American Journal of Primates and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. Prior to accepting her current position, Fedigan was a professor at the University of Alberta, teaching anthropology from 1974 until 2001.

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Education

Fedigan was born in Oklahoma and began her formal studies in anthropology at the University of Texas at Austin, where she completed bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees.

Originally, she had plans to become a cultural anthropologist but later decided to focus on primatology due to her interest in sociality. She earned a Ph.D in 1974 for her study of social roles in a transplanted troop of Japanese monkeys living on the Aras