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Professor Loeske Kruuk awarded Australian Laureate Fellowship
Professor Kruuk will receive $3.3 million in funding from the ARC to pursue research into the effects of changing environments on wild animal populations.
Study shows how Australia’s burrowing frogs handle the heat
The unique genetic make-up of a group of Australian frogs could be the key to their survival, allowing them to better withstand our harsh climate.
Beetle mania! PhD student Lauren is reshaping the family tree of longhorn beetles
Why judging a book by its cover has led to a tangled family tree for the longhorn beetle.Pages
E&E Seminar: Sexual deception and its reversibility
E&E Webinar: Science Fictions: Some Cautionary Tales from the Replication Crisis
E&E Webinar: Darwin comes to Town: evolution in Urban environments
E&E Webinar: Metascience should not be defined by its methods
E&E Webinar: Modelling life history evolution under cancer risk: what can we learn from elephants and dinosaurs?
E&E Webinar: Wings, feathers, flight: the PhyloG2P approach to understanding bird biology
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E&E Webinar: The Red Queens and the evolution of sex
Event recordings
6 August 2020
Jonathan Losos, Washington University in St Louis, Missouri, USA
Jonathan Losos will speak on his career-long experimental research program manipulating the presence of lizards on small islands in the Bahamas to test ecological and evolutionary...
30 July 2020
Lucy Aplin, Max Planck Institute of Animal Behaviour, Konstanz, Germany
There is an increasing body of evidence for the existence of animal cultures. Recent work has also suggested cultural traits can be subject to selection, changing in form,...
23 July 2020
Vivek Nityananda, Newcastle University
Praying mantises are the only insects known to have stereo vision. We used a comparative approach to determine how the mechanisms underlying stereopsis in mantises differ from...
9 July 2020
Rob Lanfear, E&E, RSB
Having spent much of the last 15 years trying to improve molecular phylogenetics, I had formed the fairly firm view that my research was very interesting (of course!!!) but rather...
9 July 2020
Stephanie Courtney Jones, Nicotra Group, E&E, RSB
The central islands of Indonesia, between Java, Bali and Kalimantan (Borneo) on the west and Papua on the east - are a living laboratory for the study of evolution, known as the...
2 July 2020
Douglas J. Emlen, The University of Montana
Every animal has a weapon of one sort or another, but the overwhelming majority of weapons stay small. Yet, sprinkled through the tree of life are species where weapons become...
11 June 2020
Michael J Ryan, University of Texas & Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Panama
Choosing a mate is one of the most important decisions an animal can make. The fitness costs and benefits of mate choice have been analysed extensively in the context of sexual...
4 June 2020
Associate Professor Athena Aktipis, Arizona State University
Athena Aktipis discusses how an evolutionary approach to understanding and treating cancer can transform it from being a disease that threatens our lives to one we can live with.
14 May 2020
Professor Bob Wong, Monash University
Bob Wong considers the role that behaviour plays in determining the fate of species under human-induced environmental change.
