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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

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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 Zoology 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
    2012 - Yale University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships
  • Member, SBS EDI Committee
  • SBS Research Culture Lead
External Memberships
  • Senior Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Chair, BES Macro SIG
  • Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
Research

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.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

  • Accepting PhDs
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Teaching

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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  • Aposematism in mammals

    Howell, N., Sheard, C., Koneru, M., Brockelsby, K., Ono, K., Caro, T.
    Evolution, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 2480-2493
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  • Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds

    Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H.
    PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 8, e3001270
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  • CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

    Roberts, S. g., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. j., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. m., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. f., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgård, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., Jordan, F.
    Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-120
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  • Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms

    Sheard, C., Bowern, C., Dockum, R., Jordan, F. M.
    Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2, e30
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  • Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

    Sheard, C., Neate-Clegg, M. H., Alioravainen, N., Jones, S. E., Vincent, C., MacGregor, H. E., Bregman, T. P., Claramunt, S., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2463
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  • Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

    Cooney, C. R., Sheard, C., Clark, A. D., Healy, S. D., Liker, A., Street, S. E., Troisi, C. A., Thomas, G. H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., Wright, A. E.
    Nature Communications, vol. 11, 2383
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  • Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

    Pigot, A. L., Sheard, C., Miller, E. T., Bregman, T. P., Freeman, B. G., Roll, U., Seddon, N., Trisos, C. H., Weeks, B. C., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 4, pp. 230-239
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  • Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale

    Stoddard, M. c., Sheard, C., Akkaynak, D., Yong, E. h., Mahadevan, L., Tobias, J. a.
    Ibis, vol. 161, no. 4, pp. 922-925
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  • Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European

    Rácz, P., Passmore, S., Sheard, C., Jordan, F. M.
    Royal Society Open Science, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 191385
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  • Tempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation

    McEntee, J. P., Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Burleigh, J. G.
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1120-1127
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  • The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds

    Pigot, A. L., Jetz, W., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1112-1119
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  • Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds

    Howard, C., Stephens, P. A., Tobias, J. A., Sheard, C., Butchart, S. H. M., Willis, S. G.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 285, no. 1873, 20172329
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  • Avian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution

    Stoddard, M. C., Yong, E. H., Akkaynak, D., Sheard, C., Tobias, J. A., Mahadevan, L.
    Science, vol. 356, no. 6344, pp. 1249-1254
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  • Professional medical writing support and the reporting quality of randomized controlled trial abstracts among high-impact general medical journals

    Mills, I., Sheard, C., Hays, M., Douglas, K., Winchester, C. C., Gattrell, W. T.
    F1000Research, vol. 6, pp. 1489
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  • Quantifying species contributions to ecosystem processes: a global assessment of functional trait and phylogenetic metrics across avian seed-dispersal networks

    Pigot, A. L., Bregman, T., Sheard, C., Daly, B., Etienne, R. S., Tobias, J. A.
    Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 283, no. 1844
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  • Territoriality, Social Bonds, and the Evolution of Communal Signaling in Birds

    Tobias, J. a., Sheard, C., Seddon, N., Meade, A., Cotton, A. j., Nakagawa, S.
    Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution, vol. 4, 74
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  • Ecological traits reveal functional nestedness of bird communities in habitat islands: a global survey

    Matthews, T. J., Sheard, C., Cottee-Jones, H. E. W., Bregman, T. P., Tobias, J. A., Whittaker, R. J.
    Oikos, vol. 124, no. 7, pp. 817-826
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  • Loan and inheritance patterns in hunter-gatherer ethnobiological systems

    Bowern, C., Haynie, H., Sheard, C., Alpher, B., Epps, P., Hill, J., McConvell, P.
    Journal of Ethnobiology, vol. 34, no. 2, pp. 195-227
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