Tim Clutton-Brock

Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock FRS (born 13 August

1946) is a British zoologist known for his comparative Tim Clutton-Brock
FRS
studies of the behavioural ecology of mammals,[1]
particularly red deer and meerkats.[2][3] Born Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock
13 August 1946
Citizenship British
Education Alma mater University of Cambridge (PhD)
Awards C. Hart Merriam Award (1991)
Clutton-Brock was educated at the University of
Cambridge, where he received a PhD in 1972.[3] Frink Medal (1997)
Darwin Medal (2012)
Scientific career
Career and research Fields Zoology

As of 2008, he is the Prince Philip Professor of Behavioural ecology

Ecology and Evolutionary Biology,[4] and head of the Institutions University of Cambridge
Large Animal Research Group at the Department of
Thesis Feeding and ranging behaviour
Zoology of the University of Cambridge,[2] and a of the red colobus monkey (htt
fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge.[5] He also p://ulmss-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/v
holds extraordinary professorships in the Department webv/holdingsInfo?bibId=714
of Zoology and Entomology and the Mammal 7) (1973)
Research Institute of the University of Pretoria, South
Doctoral Robert Hinde
Africa.[6]
advisor
Clutton-Brock's early work was on social behaviour in Website www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/directory
[7]
primates. Much of his recent work focuses on three /tim-clutton-brock (http://www.zo
long-term studies: of Red Deer on the Scottish island o.cam.ac.uk/directory/tim-clutton
of Rùm, of Soay sheep on St Kilda, and of meerkats in -brock)
[4]
the southern Kalahari. He is one of the founders of
the Kalahari Meerkat Project, the subjects of which are featured in the television programme Meerkat
Manor.[8] [9]

Books
Readings in Sociobiology. Editor with Paul H. Harvey. (1978, W.H.Freeman & Company;
ISBN 0-7167-0190-1)
Red Deer: Behavior and Ecology of Two Sexes. With F. E. Guinness and S. D. Albon. (1982,
University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11057-5)
Life Histories in Comparative Perspective. With P.H. Harvey and R.D. Martin, R.D. (1987) In
Primate Societies. Smuts, B.B., Cheney, D.L., Seyfarth, R.M., Wrangham, R.W., Struhsaker,
 T.T. (eds). Chicago & London:University of Chicago Press. pp. 181–196 ISBN 0-226-76715-
9
Rhum: The Natural History of an Island (Edinburgh Island Biology). Editor with M. E. Ball.
(1987, Edinburgh University Press; ISBN 0-85224-513-0)
Reproductive Success: Studies of Individual Variation in Contrasting Breeding Systems
(Editor, 1990, University Of Chicago Press; ISBN 0-226-11059-1)
The Evolution of Parental Care (1991, Princeton University Press; ISBN 0-691-02516-9)
Changes and Disturbance in Tropical Rainforest in SouthEast Asia. Editor with David M. G.
Newbery and Ghillean T. Prance. (2000, World Scientific Publishing Company; ISBN 1-
86094-243-1)
Wildlife Population Growth Rates. Editor with R. M. Sibly and J. Hone. (2003, Cambridge
University Press; ISBN 0-521-53347-3)
Soay Sheep: Dynamics and Selection in an Island Population. Editor with Josephine
Pemberton. (2004, Cambridge University Press; ISBN 0-521-52990-5)
Meerkat Manor – The Story of Flower of the Kalahari (2007, Weidenfeld & Nicolson; ISBN 0-
297-84484-9)
Mammal Societies (2016, Wiley-Blackwell; ISBN 1119095328)

Reviews
Clutton-Brock, TH; Parker, GA (1995). "Punishment in animal societies". Nature. 373 (6511):
209–216. Bibcode:1995Natur.373..209C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1995Natur.373..
209C). doi:10.1038/373209a0 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F373209a0). PMID 7816134 (http
s://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7816134). S2CID 21638607 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/C
orpusID:21638607).
Clutton-Brock, TH (2007). "Sexual selection in Males and Females". Science. 318 (5858):
1882–1885. Bibcode:2007Sci...318.1882C (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2007Sci...31
8.1882C). CiteSeerX 10.1.1.588.7835 (https://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=1
0.1.1.588.7835). doi:10.1126/science.1133311 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.113331
1). PMID 18096798 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18096798). S2CID 6883765 (https://a
pi.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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 (http
s://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/1991Natur.351...58G). doi:10.1038/351058a0 (https://doi.org/
10.1038%2F351058a0). PMID 2027382 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/2027382).
S2CID 4352089 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2001Sci...291..478C).
doi:10.1126/science.291.5503.478 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.291.5503.478).
PMID 11161200 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/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 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/ab
s/2002Sci...297..253C). doi:10.1126/science.1071412 (https://doi.org/10.1126%2Fscience.1
071412). PMID 12114627 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12114627). S2CID 32362826 (h
ttps://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2F
415633a). PMID 11832944 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11832944). S2CID 4361201 (h
ttps://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID: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 (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2006Natur.444.1065C).
doi:10.1038/nature05386 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature05386). PMID 17183322 (http
s://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/17183322). S2CID 4397323 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/C
orpusID: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 (https://www.science.org/d
oi/full/10.1126/science.1238677)

Awards and honours

He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1987.[7] He is an ISI Highly Cited researcher.[10] 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.[11]

References
1. Bateson, Patrick; Barker, David; Clutton-Brock, Timothy; Deb, Debal; D'Udine, Bruno; Foley,
Robert A.; Gluckman, Peter; Godfrey, Keith; Kirkwood, Tom; Lahr, Marta Mirazón;
McNamara, John; Metcalfe, Neil B.; Monaghan, Patricia; Spencer, Hamish G.; Sultan, Sonia
E. (2004). "Developmental plasticity and human health". Nature. 430 (6998): 419–421.
Bibcode:2004Natur.430..419B (https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004Natur.430..419B).
doi:10.1038/nature02725 (https://doi.org/10.1038%2Fnature02725). ISSN 0028-0836 (http
s://search.worldcat.org/issn/0028-0836). PMID 15269759 (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/
15269759). S2CID 4374045 (https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:4374045).
2. University of Cambridge, Department of Zoology page for Professor Tim Clutton-Brock FRS
(http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ZOOSTAFF/larg/pages/tim.html) Archived (https://web.archive.or
g/web/20120119115700/http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/ZOOSTAFF/larg/pages/tim.html) 19
January 2012 at the Wayback Machine
3. Clutton-Brock, Timothy Hugh (1972). Feeding and ranging behaviour of the red colobus
monkey (https://copac.jisc.ac.uk/id/23490563?style=html) (PhD thesis). University of
Cambridge. OCLC 500406063 (https://search.worldcat.org/oclc/500406063).
EThOS uk.bl.ethos.451729 (https://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.451729).
4. "Tim Clutton-Brock" (http://www.zoo.cam.ac.uk/zoostaff/clutton.htm). Department of Zoology,
University of Cambridge. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
5. "Fellows by Subject" (http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/people/fellows/fellowsbysubject.html).
Magdalene College, Cambridge. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
6. "Faculties of the University of Pretoria" (http://web.up.ac.za/yearbooks/Nat_and_Agric_Post
grad_2007.pdf) (PDF). University of Pretoria. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
 7. Anon (1993). "Professor Timothy Clutton-Brock FRS" (https://royalsociety.org/people/timothy
-clutton-brock-11239/). London: Royal Society. One or more of the preceding sentences
incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

“All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is
available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --Royal
Society Terms, conditions and policies (https://web.archive.org/web/201611111703
46/https://royalsociety.org/about-us/terms-conditions-policies/) at the Wayback
Machine (archived 2016-11-11)

8. Tim Clutton-Brock (https://www.imdb.com/name/nm2137380/) at IMDb

9. "Meerkats: The Zoological Jackpot" (https://web.archive.org/web/20071219171820/http://ng
m.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/feature3/online_extra.html). National Geographic.
Archived from the original (http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0209/feature3/online_ext
ra.html) on 19 December 2007. Retrieved 19 March 2008.
10. "ISIHighlyCited.com: Clutton-Brock, Timothy H." (http://hcr3.isiknowledge.com/author.cgi?&li
nk1=Browse&link2=Results&id=1436) Thomson Scientific. Retrieved 20 March 2008.
11. "Darwin Medal" (http://www.royalsociety.org/awards/darwin-medal/). Royal Society.
Retrieved 21 December 2012.

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