Tim Birkhead
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| Tim Birkhead | |
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| Born | 28 February 1950 [1] Leeds |
| Residence | Sheffield |
| Institutions | Newcastle University University of Oxford University of Sheffield |
| Alma mater | Newcastle University |
| Thesis | Breeding biology and survival of guillemots (Uria aalge) (1976) |
| Notable students | Ben Hatchwell, Tom Pizzari, Ben Sheldon, Simone Immler, Charlie Cornwallis, Isabelle Charmantier, Nicola Hemmings |
| Notable awards | Fellow of the Royal Society |
| Website www |
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Tim Birkhead FRS (born 28 February 1950) is a British zoologist, and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield.[2]
Education
He earned a Bachelor of Science from Newcastle University in 1972, a Doctor of Philosophy from University of Oxford in 1976 on the Breeding biology and survival of guillemots Uria aalge and a Doctor of Science from Newcastle in 1989 with thesis titled Sperm competition and the behavioural ecology of birds.
Research
- Birkhead's research[3] falls into three main areas:
- Post-copulatory sexual selection, mainly in birds[4]
- Population biology of birds.
- The history of science, and of reproduction and ornithology in particular.
Publications
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- The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal, Phoenix, 2004, ISBN 978-0-7538-1772-8
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- Ten Thousand Birds: Ornithology since Darwin, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 978-0-691-15197-7
- Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012, ISBN 978-1-4088-2013-1
- "The Most Perfect Thing: the Inside (and Outside) of a BIrd's Egg", Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2016 ISBN 978-1-4088-5126-5
References
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- ↑ http://www.shef.ac.uk/aps/staff-and-students/acadstaff/birkhead
- ↑ http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=tim+birkhead Tim Birkhead in Google Scholar
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External links
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- http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_birkhead_the_wisdom_of_birds.html
- thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-birkhead-on-sperm
- http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400029
- Tim Birkhead at TED
