Social Evolution

Social evolution describes the evolutionary consequences of interactions between individuals, whether they are relatives or unrelated members of the same species or individuals from different species. We are particularly interested in identifying conditions that result in cooperative interactions between unrelated individuals or conflict between relatives. We work on a diversity of species including chestnut-crowned babblers in Australia, hornbills and drongos in the Kalahari, Hihi in New Zealand and the local burying beetle population in Cambridge.

• Amy Backhouse
  

• Giuseppe Boncoraglio (PI)
  

• Nick Davies (PI)
  
  
• Ana Duarte
  
  
• Michael Finnie
  
  
• Tom Flower
  
  
• Rebecca Kilner (PI)
  
  
• Carmen Panayi
  
  
• Claire Spottiswoode (PI)
  
  
• Marjorie Sorensen
  
  
• Martin Stevens (PI)
  
  
• Mary Caswell Stoddard
  
  
• Rose Thorogood
  
  
• Leila Walker
  
  
• James Westrip
  
  

• Large Animal Research Group, led by Tim Clutton-Brock
  
  
• Behaviour and Evolution Group, led by Rufus Johnstone
  
  
• Evolutionary Ecology Group, led by Andrea Manica