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Deforestation causes ‘boom-and-bust’ development in the Amazon

8 August 2013

Clearing the Amazon rainforest provides a quick boost to Brazilian communities’ wealth and quality of life, but these improvements are short-lived, according to new research published today in Science.

Linnean Medal for Zoology

8 August 2013

The Department is delighted to offer its congratulations to Professor Michael Akam who has been awarded the Linnean Medal for Zoology.

The Whale: A History

8 August 2013

Professor Bill Amos appeared on Radio Four's In Our Time programme discussing the evolutionary history of the whale with Melvyn Bragg, Professor Steve Jones from UCL and Eleanor Weston from the Natural History Museum.

New Fellow of the Royal Society

8 August 2013

The Department offers its congratulations to Professor Jenny Clack who has become the latest member of the Department to be made a Fellow of the Royal Society bringing the total to 18.

Corvids continue to impress

8 August 2013

Work carried out at the Sub-department of Animal Behaviour in Madingley is continuing to reveal the extraordinary intelligence of corvids.

Godman-Salvin Medal for Professor Rhys Green

8 August 2013

Professor Rhys Green has been awarded the Godman-Salvin Medal by the British Ornithologists Union (BOU), a rare honour as the medal has only been awarded 24 times in 90 years.

Foreign Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

8 August 2013

The department is delighted to offer its congratulations to Professor Jenny Clack who has been awarded a Foreign Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Last surviving Beagle egg discovered by chance

8 August 2013

An egg collected by Charles Darwin while on HMS Beagle - and thought to be the last such specimen known to exist - has been rediscovered by an octogenarian volunteer at Cambridge University’s Zoology Museum.

Graduate poster competition winners

8 August 2013

Zoology graduate students have recently been very successful in a variety of poster competitions.

Martin Wells

8 August 2013

Professor Malcolm Burrows, Head of Department, writes: Martin was born on 24 August 1928 and was a long time member of the Department. He was a Frank Smart Prize winner in 1951, then undertook research with Wigglesworth before working at the Marine Station in Naples. He was appointed a Demonstrator in 1959, a Lecturer in...

Department of Zoology

Deforestation causes ‘boom-and-bust’ development in the Amazon

Linnean Medal for Zoology

The Whale: A History

New Fellow of the Royal Society

Corvids continue to impress

Godman-Salvin Medal for Professor Rhys Green

Foreign Honorary Fellowship of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Last surviving Beagle egg discovered by chance

Graduate poster competition winners

Martin Wells

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