David George Charles Harper is the senior lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex

University of Sussex

The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....

, England

England

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. He specifically lectures Animal Diversity, Darwinian Evolution, Cooperation & Conflict in Animal Societies, Conservation in Practice and Applied systematics.

Harper was born in Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield

Sutton Coldfield is a suburb of Birmingham, in the West Midlands of England. Sutton is located about from central Birmingham but has borders with Erdington and Kingstanding. Sutton is in the northeast of Birmingham, with a population of 105,000 recorded in the 2001 census...

, Birmingham

Birmingham

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. He earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge

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 and was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Oxford

St John's College, Oxford

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. In addition to lecturing, he researches the behavioural ecology of passerine

Passerine

A passerine is a bird of the order Passeriformes, which includes more than half of all bird species. Sometimes known as perching birds or, less accurately, as songbirds, the passerines form one of the most diverse terrestrial vertebrate orders: with over 5,000 identified species, it has roughly...

 birds, especially Robins.

Publications

For full list of publications click here

• Maynard Smith, J. & Harper, D.G.C. (2003) Animal Signals. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 0198526857
• Brickle, N.W. & Harper, D.G.C. (2002). Agricultural intensification and the timing of breeding of Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra. Bird Study 49: 219-236.
• Thomas, R.J., Szekely, T, Cuthill, I.C., Harper, D.G.C., Newson, S.E., Frayling, T.D., & Wallis, P.D. (2002) Eye size in birds and the timing of song at dawn. Proceedings of the Royal Society, B. 269: 831-837.
• Brickle, N.W. & Harper, D.G.C. (2000) Habitat use by Corn Buntings Miliaria calandra in winter and summer. In Aebischer, N.J., Evans, A.D., Grice, P.V. & Vickery, J.A. (eds) Ecology and Conservation of Lowland Farmland Birds: 156-164. Tring: British Ornithologists' Union.
• Gosler, A.G. & Harper, D.G.C. (2000) Assessing the heritability of body condition in birds: a challenge exemplified by the Great Tit Parus major L. (Aves). Biological Journal of the Linnean Society 71: 103-117.
• Brickle, N.W., Harper, D.G.C., Aebischer, N.J. & Cockayne, S.J. (2000) Effects of agricultural intensification on the breeding success of corn buntings Miliaria calandra. Journal of Applied Ecology 37: 742-755.

External links

• Dr David Harper at University of Sussex
  University of Sussex
  The University of Sussex is an English public research university situated next to the East Sussex village of Falmer, within the city of Brighton and Hove. The University received its Royal Charter in August 1961....