Innovation Funding Consultant and Grant Writer Emeritus Professor of Life and Health Sciences

London
Joined February 2014
New Cell paper, describing aggression-mirroring neurons in mice cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092… (@RABloodPrimate - this is an important one to cite!)
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Male but not female killer whales place significant reproductive costs on mothers. This burden is not due to costs of lactation and does not reduce as sons get older. More brilliant life-history work by @CetaceanMike @DarrenPCroft @CWROrcas and others.
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Yes, I'd also be very interested to see this explored in other taxa (@ccgrueter - you and your colleagues’ next project?). I remember this paper showing evolution of eusociality in insects is associated with a *massive* (100-fold!) increase in lifespan: nature.com/articles/40130
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New phylogenetic analysis of mammal species reveals correlated evolution of social organization and lifespan – gregarious species tend to live longer than solitary ones. Impressive work by Pingfen Zhu et al. nature.com/articles/s41467-0…
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Impressive new study, using long-term data to document the connections between habitat loss, climate and the risk of spillover of bat pathogens into human populations. nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Replying to @evornithology
Different species, but an important principle... youtube.com/watch?time_conti…
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