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News

Tuesday, 23 Jul 2019

A recent study found that juvenile blue-tongue lizards have adult-like learning ability which might give them the edge they need to survive all by themselves.

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Tuesday, 09 Jul 2019

Meet Dr Jennie Mallela, and of course she’s clever enough to have a PhD.

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Tuesday, 28 May 2019

Dan Noble and his research group explore how early developmental experiences impact physiology and metabolic function, and subsequently life history, using model lizard species.

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Thursday, 23 May 2019

David Duchêne uses phylogenomics to study the diversification of Australian marsupials.

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Monday, 20 May 2019









A region's climate has a greater impact than landscape on how many languages are spoken there, new research from The Australian National University (ANU) shows.









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Tuesday, 14 May 2019








Lead researcher Dr Megan Head says her study shows sexually transmitted diseases can act as a mediator for sexual conflict, which occurs when the evolutionary interests of males and females don't align.









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Events

1 Apr 2021 | 9 - 10am
18 Mar 2021 | 10am

Ecology and Evolution Discussions Down Under

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4 Mar 2021 | 9am

I’ll share some of the latest data on animal movement around the planet. I will highlight how this helps us to preserve biodiversity, to secure our global food supplies, to anticipate pandemics and potentially to predict natural disasters.

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19 Feb 2021 | 4 - 5pm

The study of animal ‘personality’, or consistent individual differences in behaviour, has received much attention in the last two decades, but several important questions remain unclear.

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11 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

Animals live in an ever-changing world, but environmental perturbations are occurring at an alarming rate - threatening biodiversity and population persistence.

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8 Dec 2020 | 4 - 5pm

I examine how some established population genetic models can be extended to accommodate insights from newer data and analytic methods.

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