Tim Clutton-Brock

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name = Tim H. Clutton-Brock
birth_date = 13 August 1946
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residence = United Kingdom
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field = Zoology, behavioural ecology
work_institution = Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge
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Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock, MA PhD ScD FRS (born 13 August 1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly red deer and meerkats.

Career

As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology and head of the Large Animal Research Group at the Department of Zoology of the University of Cambridge, and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.cite web |title = Fellows by Subject |url = http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/people/fellows/fellowsbysubject.html |publisher= Magdalene College, Cambridge| accessdate = 2008-03-20] He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the University of Pretoria, South Africa.cite web |title = Faculties of the University of Pretoria |url = http://web.up.ac.za/yearbooks/Nat_and_Agric_Postgrad_2007.pdf |publisher= University of Pretoria| accessdate = 2008-03-20]

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.cite web |title = The Royal Society Library and Archive catalogue: Clutton-Brock, Timothy Hugh |url = http://royalsociety.org/DServe/dserve.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqCmd=Show.tcl&dsqDb=Catalog&dsqPos=0&dsqSearch=((text)='clutton-brock') |publisher= Royal Society| accessdate = 2008-03-19] He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher.cite web |title = ISIHighlyCited.com: Clutton-Brock, Timothy H. |url = http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&link1=Browse&link2=Results&id=1436 |publisher= Thomson Scientific| accessdate = 2008-03-20]

Research interests

Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in primates. 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.cite web| url=http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/clutton.htm| title=Tim Clutton-Brock| publisher=Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge| accessdate=2008-03-19] He is one of the founders of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme "Meerkat Manor". [cite web| url=http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/feature3/online_extra.html| title=Meerkats: The Zoological Jackpot| publisher="National Geographic"| accessdate=2008-03-19]

List of works

Books

* "Readings in Sociobiology". Editor with Paul H. Harvey. (1978, W.H.Freeman & Company; ISBN 0716701901)
* "Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes". With F. E. Guinness and S. D. Albon. (1982, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226110575)
* "Rhum: The Natural History of an Island (Edinburgh Island Biology)". Editor with M. E. Ball. (1987, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0852245130)
* "Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems" (Editor, 1990, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0226110591)
* "The Evolution of Parental Care" (1991, Princeton University Press; ISBN 0691025169)
* "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 1860942431)
* "Wildlife Population Growth Rates". Editor with R. M. Sibly and J. Hone. (2003, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521533473)
* "Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population". Editor with J. M. Pemberton. (2004, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0521529905)
* "Meerkat Manor - The Story of Flower of the Kalahari" (2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ISBN 0297844849)

Reviews

*Clutton-Brock TH, Parker GA. (1995) Punishment in animal societies. "Nature" 373: 209–216 (PMID 7816134)

Articles

*Clutton-Brock TH, Vincent AC. (1991) Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females. "Nature" 351: 58–60 (PMID 2027382)
*Clutton-Brock TH "et al". (2001) Cooperation, conflict and concession in meerkat groups. "Science" 291: 478–481 (PMID 11161200)
*Clutton-Brock TH "et al". (2002) Evolution and development of sex differences in cooperative behaviour in meerkats. "Science" 297: 253–256 (PMID 12114627)
*Clutton-Brock TH "et al". (2002) Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations. "Nature" 415: 633–637 (PMID 11832944)
*Clutton-Brock TH "et al". (2006) Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals." Nature" 444: 1065–1068 (PMID 17183322)

References

External links

* [http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ZOOSTAFF/larg/pages/tim.html University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS]
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