David George Charles Harper is the senior lecturer in

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in the School of Life Sciences at the

University of Sussex , mottoeng = Be Still and Know , established = , type = Public research university , endowment = £14.4 million (2020) , budget = £319.6 million (2019–20) , chancellor = Sanjeev Bhaskar , vice_chancellor = Sasha Roseneil , ...

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. He specifically lectures Animal Diversity, Darwinian Evolution, Cooperation & Conflict in Animal Societies, Conservation in Practice and Applied systematics. Harper was born in Sutton Coldfield,

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. He earned his doctorate at the

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and was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford. In addition to lecturing, he researches the behavioural ecology of

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birds, especially

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Publications

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' * Maynard Smith, J. & Harper, D.G.C. (2003) Animal Signals. Oxford University Press, Oxford. * Brickle, N.W. & Harper, D.G.C. (2002). Agricultural intensification and the timing of breeding of Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra. Bird Study 49: 219-236. * Thomas, R.J., Szekely, T, Cuthill, I.C., Harper, D.G.C., Newson, S.E., Frayling, T.D., & Wallis, P.D. (2002) Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 269: 831-837. * Brickle, N.W. & Harper, D.G.C. (2000) Habitat use by Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra in winter and summer. In Aebischer, N.J., Evans, A.D., Grice, P.V. & Vickery, J.A. (eds) Ecology and Conservation of Lowland Farmland Birds: 156-164. Tring: British Ornithologists' Union. * Gosler, A.G. & Harper, D.G.C. (2000) Assessing the heritability of body condition in birds: a challenge exemplified by the Great Tit Parus major L. (Aves). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 103-117. * Brickle, N.W., Harper, D.G.C., Aebischer, N.J. & Cockayne, S.J. (2000) Effects of agricultural intensification on the breeding success of corn buntings Miliaria calandra. Journal of Applied Ecology 37: 742-755.

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