Dr Catherine Sheard
Interdisciplinary Fellow
- About
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- School/Department
- School of Biological Sciences
Biography
I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution.
My Google Scholar page can be found here and more information about my research can be found here.
Qualifications
- DPhil Zoology2016 - University of Oxford
- BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology2012 - Yale University
External Memberships
- Associate Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
- Deputy Chair, BES Macro SIG
- Equality and Diversity Advisory Group Member, British Ecological Society
- Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
- Research
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Research Areas
Accepting PhDs
I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.
Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.
Biological and Environmental Sciences
Accepting PhDs - Publications
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Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms
Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2, e30Contributions to Journals: ArticlesEcological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology
Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2463Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16313-6
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Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations
Nature Communications, vol. 11, 2383Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16257-x
Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 4, pp. 230-239Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-019-1070-4
Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale
Ibis, vol. 161, no. 4, pp. 922-925Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ibi.12755
- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/ibi.v161.4
Usage frequency and lexical class determine the evolution of kinship terms in Indo-European
Royal Society Open Science, vol. 6, no. 10, pp. 191385Contributions to Journals: ArticlesTempo and timing of ecological trait divergence in bird speciation
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1120-1127Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0570-y
The macroecological dynamics of species coexistence in birds
Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 2, no. 7, pp. 1112-1119Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41559-018-0572-9
Flight range, fuel load and the impact of climate change on the journeys of migrant birds
Proceedings of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, vol. 285, no. 1873, 20172329Contributions to Journals: ArticlesAvian egg shape: Form, function, and evolution
Science, vol. 356, no. 6344, pp. 1249-1254Contributions to Journals: Articles- [ONLINE] DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aaj1945