Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (born 13 August 1946) is a British

zoologist Zoology ()The pronunciation of zoology as is usually regarded as nonstandard, though it is not uncommon. is the branch of biology that studies the animal kingdom, including the structure, embryology, evolution, classification, habits, and ...

known for his comparative studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals, particularly

red deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

and

meerkat MeerKAT, originally the Karoo Array Telescope, is a radio telescope consisting of 64 antennas in the Meerkat National Park, in the Northern Cape of South Africa. In 2003, South Africa submitted an expression of interest to host the Square K ...

s.University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS

Education

Clutton-Brock was educated at the

University of Cambridge , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

where he was awarded a

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in 1972.

Career and research

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

, and a fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge. He also holds extraordinary professorships in the Department of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal Research Institute of the

University of Pretoria The University of Pretoria ( af, Universiteit van Pretoria, nso, Yunibesithi ya Pretoria) is a multi-campus public university, public research university in Pretoria, the administrative and de facto capital of South Africa. The university was ...

, South Africa. Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in

primate Primates are a diverse order (biology), order of mammals. They are divided into the Strepsirrhini, strepsirrhines, which include the lemurs, galagos, and lorisids, and the Haplorhini, haplorhines, which include the Tarsiiformes, tarsiers and ...

s. Much of his recent work focuses on three long-term studies: of

Red Deer The red deer (''Cervus elaphus'') is one of the largest deer species. A male red deer is called a stag or hart, and a female is called a hind. The red deer inhabits most of Europe, the Caucasus Mountains region, Anatolia, Iran, and parts of wes ...

on the Scottish island of Rùm, of

Soay sheep The Soay sheep is a breed of domestic sheep (''Ovis aries'') descended from a population of feral sheep on the island of Soay in the St Kilda Archipelago, about from the Western Isles of Scotland. It is one of the Northern European short-ta ...

on St Kilda, and of

s in the southern

Kalahari The Kalahari Desert is a large semi-arid sandy savanna in Southern Africa extending for , covering much of Botswana, and parts of Namibia and South Africa. It is not to be confused with the Angolan, Namibian, and South African Namib coa ...

. He is one of the founders of the

Kalahari Meerkat Project The Kalahari Meerkat Project, or KMP, is a long term research project focused on studying the evolutionary causes and ecological consequences of cooperative behaviors in meerkats. The secondary aims of the project are to determine what factors affe ...

, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme ''

Meerkat Manor ''Meerkat Manor'' is a British television programme produced by Oxford Scientific Films that premiered in September 2005. Originally broadcast on Animal Planet International for four series, until its cancellation in August 2008, the progr ...

''.

Books

* ''Readings in Sociobiology''. Editor with Paul H. Harvey. (1978, W.H.Freeman & Company; ) * ''Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes''. With F. E. Guinness and S. D. Albon. (1982, University Of Chicago Press; ) * ''Life Histories in Comparative Perspective''. With P.H. Harvey and R.D. Martin, R.D. (1987) In ''Primate Societies''. Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker, T.T. (eds). Chicago & London:University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–196 * ''Rhum: The Natural History of an Island (Edinburgh Island Biology)''. Editor with M. E. Ball. (1987, Edinburgh University Press; ) * ''Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems'' (Editor, 1990, University Of Chicago Press; ) * ''The Evolution of Parental Care'' (1991, Princeton University Press; ) * ''Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in SouthEast Asia''. Editor with David M. G. Newbery and

Ghillean T. Prance Sir Ghillean Tolmie Prance (born 13 July 1937) is a prominent British botanist and ecologist who has published extensively on the taxonomy of families such as Chrysobalanaceae and Lecythidaceae, but drew particular attention in documenting th ...

. (2000, World Scientific Publishing Company; ) * ''Wildlife Population Growth Rates''. Editor with R. M. Sibly and J. Hone. (2003, Cambridge University Press; ) * ''Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population''. Editor with

Josephine Pemberton Josephine M. Pemberton is a British evolutionary biologist. She is Chair of Natural History at the University of Edinburgh, where she conducts research in parentage analysis, Pedigree chart, pedigree reconstruction, inbreeding depression, Paras ...

. (2004, Cambridge University Press; ) * ''Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari'' (2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ) * ''Mammal Societies'' (2016, Wiley-Blackwell; )

Reviews

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Articles

* * * * * * Lukas, D., & Clutton-Brock, T. H. (August 2013). "The evolution of social monogamy in mammals". ''Science.''341: 526-530
doi:10.1126/science.1238677

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the

Royal Society The Royal Society, formally The Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is a learned society and the United Kingdom's national academy of sciences. The society fulfils a number of roles: promoting science and its benefits, r ...

in 1987. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where: He is an

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Highly Cited researcher. He won the 1997 Frink Medal of the

Zoological Society of London The Zoological Society of London (ZSL) is a charity devoted to the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats. It was founded in 1826. Since 1828, it has maintained the London Zoo, and since 1931 Whipsnade Park. History On 29 ...

. In 2012, he was awarded the Darwin Medal from the Royal Society for his work on the diversity of animal societies and demonstration of their effects on the evolution of reproductive strategies, and the operation of selection and the dynamics of populations.

References

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