Tim Birkhead
Encyclopedia
Tim Robert Birkhead FRS is a British zoologist, and professor of behavior and evolution at the University of Sheffield
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in 1976.
University of Sheffield
The University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
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Life
He earned a BSc from Newcastle University in 1972, and a DPhil from University of OxfordUniversity of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
in 1976.
Works
- The red canary: the story of the first genetically engineered animal, Phoenix, 2004, ISBN 9780753817728; Bloomsbury Publishing, 2011, ISBN 9780747598220
- Lives of Birds - A Modern History of Ornithology, Princeton University Press, 2011, ISBN 9780691151977
- Bird Sense: What it Is Like to Be a Bird, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2012, ISBN 9781408820131
External links
- http://www.ted.com/talks/tim_birkhead_the_wisdom_of_birds.html
- thebrowser.com/interviews/tim-birkhead-on-sperm
- http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?storycode=400029