I study how stress affects animal parenting. With a background as a muralist, I used that style to explore the vast experiment in which we live, showing how people care for one another, or don’t, in stressful times.
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Rebecca M. Calisi Rodríguez is an associate professor of neurobiology, physiology and behavior at UC Davis.
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