Interdisciplinary Fellow
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- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences

Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution, with a particular interest in the relationship between people and their natural environment.
My Google Scholar page can be found and more information about my research can be found .
Qualifications
- DPhil Zoology2016 - University of Oxford
- BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology2012 - Yale University
Memberships and Affiliations
- Internal Memberships
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- Member, SBS EDI Committee
- SBS Research Culture Lead
- External Memberships
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- Senior Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Chair, BES Macro SIG
- Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
- Teaching
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Teaching Responsibilities
I primarily teach on BI3505: Animal Behaviour and ZO4543: Behavioural Ecology & Conservation, as well as contributing various lectures and practicals in topics across evolution and statistics. I also supervise honours project students.
- Publications
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Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds
Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, 74Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey
Oikos, vol. 124, no. 7, pp. 817-826Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE]
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Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems
Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-227Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI:
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