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SUMMARY:Family life of birds: sex\, conflicts and cooperation  - Tamas Sze
 kely (University of Bath)
DTSTART:20140121T160000Z
DTEND:20140121T170000Z
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CONTACT:Dieter Lukas
DESCRIPTION:Family life is rife with conflicts. Not only the interests of 
 parents and their offspring may be different\, but the male and the female
  parents may also disagree how much care each should provide for their off
 spring. I will review some of the works my group has carried out to unders
 tand family dynamics using shorebirds as model organisms. We are investiga
 ting birds in their natural habitats\,  and use experimental manipulations
  and phylogenetic comparative analyses to work out the drivers of their so
 cial behaviour. A core idea is that breeding populations move on a coopera
 tion-conflict continuum. An important\, and not yet fully appreciated\, co
 mponent of breeding systems is social environment\, and our recent works a
 re revealing some unexpected effects of social environment on sex roles an
 d breeding system evolution. 
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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