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Department Member, Biology
University of Sheffield, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences
NWO Visiting Research Fellow
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Anthropogenic factors are exerting increasing pressure on natural systems, resulting in environmental heterogeneity and change. Behaviour is the critical interface between an individual and its environment, allowing individuals to react to natural variation and anthropogenic change. We do not know, however, to what extent behaviour is culturally and genetically inherited, and how much the context in which it is expressed matters. We therefore do not understand how behaviours evolve or what maintains the diversity in behavioural strategies. I am addressing this by quantifying the genetics underlying cooperative-breeding behaviour using two outstanding long-term datasets from natural populations. This will improve our understanding of how the environment and interactions with relatives affect the rate and direction of selection on the genes that control the expression of behaviours, so that we can determine how behaviours evolve.
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