Our Primate Ancestors Weighed Less Than an Ounce and Surprisingly Evolved in The Cold – Not The Tropics
New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.
I am an ecologist. My research interests are focused on the behavioural ecology of social animals; banded mongoose group dynamics, grey mouse lemur breeding, social spider colony demography, and chimpanzee social dynamics; and game animal stress physiology, motivated by an interest in conservation and welfare, including fieldwork involving capture and translocation of white rhinoceros. My field research has taken me to South Africa, Uganda, and Madagascar. I lecture at Edinburgh Napier University, in Scotland. I studied for my PhD at the University of Cambridge, and my BSc at the University of Edinburgh.
New research overturns decades of assumptions about how – and where – our lineage began.