Meet the LECTURERS
Prof Darren Croft
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My research interests lie in two main questions (i) What are the mechanisms and functions that underpin the structure of animal and societies? (ii) What are the evolutionary implications of this structure? The research topics covered by my group are broad and include; the evolution of cooperation, life history evolution, social recognition and sexual conflict. As such we work on a wide range of study systems ranging from small fresh water fish to resident killer whales.
email [email protected]
My research interests lie in two main questions (i) What are the mechanisms and functions that underpin the structure of animal and societies? (ii) What are the evolutionary implications of this structure? The research topics covered by my group are broad and include; the evolution of cooperation, life history evolution, social recognition and sexual conflict. As such we work on a wide range of study systems ranging from small fresh water fish to resident killer whales.
Dr Joah Madden
email [email protected] I have worked on human and animal behaviour for the past 15 vears. This has included looking at sexual selection in bowerbirds, Australia; cuckoldry by brood parasites, USA and Cambridgeshire; parent offspring conflict in meerkats, South Africa; breeding biology of critically endangered birds, Montserrat; and mating behaviour in pheasants, Devon. I am passionate about wild behaviour, and understanding how we can ask questions about selective pressures in natural situations. |
Dr Lauren Brent
email [email protected]k I study the evolution of sociality and ask why social relationships are formed and how they are maintained. Within groups of animals, individuals differ in their tendency to interact with others and in how deeply embedded they are in their social networks. My research is centred on wild or free-ranging populations with long-term datasets that permit me to quantify inter-individual differences in sociality, relatedness, survival and reproductive output. |
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