Tim Clutton-Brock1946—

Education

Clutton-Bruck was educated at Rugby School and at the University of Cambridge, where he also received his PhD 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 University of Cambridge, 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, South Africa.

Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in primates. Much of his recent work focuses on three long-term studies: of Red Deer on the Scottish island of Rùm, of Soay sheep on St Kilda, and of meerkats in the southern Kalahari. He is one of the founders of the Kalahari Meerkat Project, whose subjects featured in the television programme Meerkat Manor.

Reviews

Clutton-Brock, TH; Parker, GA (1995). "Punishment in animal societies". Nature. 373 (6511): 209–216. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..209C. doi:10.1038/373209a0. PMID 7816134. S2CID 21638607.

Clutton-Brock, TH (2007). "Sexual selection in Males and Females". Science. 318 (5858): 1882–1885. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1882C. doi:10.1126/science.1133311. PMID 18096798. S2CID 6883765.

Articles

Clutton-Brock, TH; Vincent, AC (May 1991). "Sexual selection and the potential reproductive rates of males and females". Nature. 351 (6321): 58–60. Bibcode:1991Natur.351...58G. doi:10.1038/351058a0. PMID 2027382. S2CID 4352089.

Clutton-Brock, TH; Brotherton, PN; Russell, AF; et al. (January 2001). "Cooperation, control, and concession in meerkat groups". Science. 291 (5503): 478–81. Bibcode:2001Sci...291..478C. doi:10.1126/science.291.5503.478. PMID 11161200.

Clutton-Brock, TH; Russell, AF; Sharpe, LL; Young, AJ; Balmforth, Z; McIlrath, GM (July 2002). "Evolution and development of sex differences in cooperative behavior in meerkats". Science. 297 (5579): 253–6. Bibcode:2002Sci...297..253C. doi:10.1126/science.1071412. PMID 12114627. S2CID 32362826.

Clutton-Brock, TH; Coulson, TN; Milner-Gulland, EJ; Thomson, D; Armstrong, HM (February 2002). "Sex differences in emigration and mortality affect optimal management of deer populations". Nature. 415 (6872): 633–7. doi:10.1038/415633a. PMID 11832944. S2CID 4361201.

Clutton-Brock, TH; Hodge, SJ; Spong, G; et al. (December 2006). "Intrasexual competition and sexual selection in cooperative mammals". Nature. 444 (7122): 1065–8. Bibcode:2006Natur.444.1065C. doi:10.1038/nature05386. PMID 17183322. S2CID 4397323.

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 in 1993. He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher.

He won the 1997 Frink Medal of the Zoological Society of London.

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.