Tim Clutton-Brock

Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock FRS (born 13 August 1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals,[1] particularly red deer and meerkats.[2][3]

Tim Clutton-Brock

FRS
Born
Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock

(1946-08-13) 13 August 1946
CitizenshipBritish
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Cambridge
ThesisFeeding and ranging behaviour of the red colobus monkey (1973)
Doctoral advisorRobert Hinde
InfluencedJosephine Pemberton
Websitewww.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory/tim-clutton-brock

Education

Clutton-Brock was educated at the University of Cambridge where he was awarded a PhD in 1972.[3]

Career and research

As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,[4] and head of the Large Animal Research Group at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge,[2] and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[5] He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.[6]

Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in primates.[7] Much of his recent work focuses on three long-term studies: of Red Deer on the Scottish island of Rùm, of Soay sheep on St Kilda, and of meerkats in the southern Kalahari.[4] He is one of the founders of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme Meerkat Manor.[8] [9]

Books
  • Readings in Sociobiology. Editor with Paul H. Harvey. (1978, W.H.Freeman & Company; ISBN 0-7167-0190-1)
  • Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes. With F. E. Guinness and S. D. Albon. (1982, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11057-5)
  • Life Histories in Comparative Perspective. With P.H. Harvey and R.D. Martin, R.D. (1987) In Primate Societies. Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T. (eds). Chicago & London:University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–196 ISBN 0-226-76715-9
  • Rhum: The Natural History of an Island (Edinburgh Island Biology). Editor with M. E. Ball. (1987, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0-85224-513-0)
  • Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems (Editor, 1990, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11059-1)
  • The Evolution of Parental Care (1991, Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-691-02516-9)
  • Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in SouthEast Asia. Editor with David M. G. Newbery and Ghillean T. Prance. (2000, World Scientific Publishing Company; ISBN 1-86094-243-1)
  • Wildlife Population Growth Rates. Editor with R. M. Sibly and J. Hone. (2003, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-53347-3)
  • Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population. Editor with Josephine Pemberton. (2004, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-52990-5)
  • Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ISBN 0-297-84484-9)
  • Mammal Societies (2016, Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 1119095328)

Reviews

Articles
  • Clutton-Brock, TH; Vincent, AC (May 1991). "Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females". Nature. 351: 58–60. doi:10.1038/351058a0. PMID 2027382.
  • Clutton-Brock, TH; Brotherton, PN; Russell, AF; et al. (January 2001). "Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groups". Science. 291: 478–81. doi:10.1126/science.291.5503.478. PMID 11161200.
  • Clutton-Brock, TH; Russell, AF; Sharpe, LL; Young, AJ; Balmforth, Z; McIlrath, GM (July 2002). "Evolution and development of sex differences in cooperative behavior in meerkats". Science. 297: 253–6. doi:10.1126/science.1071412. PMID 12114627.
  • Clutton-Brock, TH; Coulson, TN; Milner-Gulland, EJ; Thomson, D; Armstrong, HM (February 2002). "Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations". Nature. 415: 633–7. doi:10.1038/415633a. PMID 11832944.
  • Clutton-Brock, TH; Hodge, SJ; Spong, G; et al. (December 2006). "Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals". Nature. 444: 1065–8. doi:10.1038/nature05386. PMID 17183322.

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.[7] He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher.[10] He won the 1997 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London.

In 2012, he was awarded the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society for his work on the diversity of animal societies and demonstration of their effects on the evolution of reproductive strategies, and the operation of selection and the dynamics of populations.[11]

gollark: If you go deeper underwater, then the change in pressure isn't due to higher gravity - it's not significant enough of a change - but... more being above you, or something, so it's compressed more?
gollark: I mean, very slightly yes, but not significantly.
gollark: No, actually.
gollark: Also gravitational field strength.
gollark: I suppose the air pressure is slightly lower higher up, but I'm not sure why that would be relevant.

References
  1. Bateson, Patrick; Barker, David; Clutton-Brock, Timothy; Deb, Debal; D'Udine, Bruno; Foley, Robert A.; Gluckman, Peter; Godfrey, Keith; Kirkwood, Tom; Lahr, Marta Mirazón; McNamara, John; Metcalfe, Neil B.; Monaghan, Patricia; Spencer, Hamish G.; Sultan, Sonia E. (2004). "Developmental plasticity and human health". Nature. 430 (6998): 419–421. doi:10.1038/nature02725. ISSN 0028-0836. PMID 15269759.
  2. University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS Archived 19 January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
  3. Clutton-Brock, Timothy Hugh (1972). Feeding and ranging behaviour of the red colobus monkey (PhD thesis). University of Cambridge. OCLC 500406063. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.451729.
  4. "Tim Clutton-Brock". Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
  5. "Fellows by Subject". Magdalene College, Cambridge. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  6. "Faculties of the University of Pretoria" (PDF). University of Pretoria. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  7. Anon (1993). "Professor Timothy Clutton-Brock FRS". London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal Society Terms, conditions and policies at the Wayback Machine (archived 2016-11-11)
  8. Tim Clutton-Brock on IMDb
  9. "Meerkats: The Zoological Jackpot". National Geographic. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
  10. "ISIHighlyCited.com: Clutton-Brock, Timothy H." Thomson Scientific. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
  11. "Darwin Medal". Royal Society. Retrieved 21 December 2012.
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