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Tuesday, 10 May 2022

The biologists and the linguists at ANU might sit on different sides of the campus, but Professor Lindell Bromham from the ANU Research School of Biology says it wasn’t difficult to see the benefits in the two disciplines coming together.

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Thursday, 14 Apr 2022

Mention the superb lyrebird, and you’ll probably hear comments on their uncanny mimicry of human sounds, their presence on the 10 cent coin, and their stunning tail. Far less known – but equally, if not more, impressive – is the Albert’s lyrebird.

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Tuesday, 08 Mar 2022

A new study from researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) rolls back the curtain on half a century of evidence detailing the impact of climate change on more than 60 different bird species.

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Tuesday, 04 Jan 2022

Have you opened your post-lockdown wardrobe, only to discover some of your beautiful summer clothes have holes in them? You’re probably blaming clothes moths but the real culprits are the larvae (caterpillars).

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

A world-first study warns 1,500 endangered languages could no longer be spoken by the end of this century.

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Friday, 17 Dec 2021

Deeply entrenched scientific beliefs that for more than a century have explained why more men than women are high achievers because of biology are not backed up by evidence, according to new research.

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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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