Jenny Tung | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Occupation | evolutionary anthropologist |
| Awards | MacArthur Fellowship |
| Academic background | |
| Education | PhD, 2010, Duke University |
| Thesis | Functional and Evolutionary Genetics of a Wild Baboon Population (2010) |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Duke University |
Jenny Tung (Jĕn-nē tŏng) is an evolutionary anthropologist and geneticist. She is Director of the Department of Primate Behavior and Evolution at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig, Germany, and a Visiting Professor of Evolutionary Anthropology and Biology at Duke University. In 2019, she was awarded a MacArthur Fellowship,[1] and in 2024, she was elected a member of the United States National Academy of Sciences. Tung co-directs the Amboseli Baboon Research Project, a long-term study of wild baboons in Kenya.