Niko Tinbergenlezing, vrijdag 11 mei 2012
'The Study of Behaviour: Paradigms and Progress'
- Programma
18.00 – 19.00 uur Ontvangst in Gorlaeus restaurant (zaal vanaf 18.45 uur open)
19.00 – 19.15 uur Welkom door prof.dr. Sjoerd Verduyn Lunel
Inleiding door prof.dr. Carel ten Cate
19.15 – 20.00 uur Lezing door prof.dr. Jelle Reumer
20.00 – 21.00 uur Lezing prof.dr. Timothy R. Birkhead
21.00 – 21.30 uur Borrel
- Aanmelden
U kunt aanmelden via het digitale aanmeldformulier. De elektronische bevestiging geldt tevens als toegangsbewijs.
- Livestream
U kunt de lezing tevens bekijken via de livestream.
- Locatie
Gorlaeus Laboratorium
Einsteinweg
Universiteit Leiden
Let op! Wegens werkzaamheden is er slechts beperkte parkeergelegenheid. Routebeschrijving-
- Prof.dr. Jelle Reumer
Titel: What, if anything, is a bird?
Birds, class Aves, form one of the traditional five classes of vertebrates, next to fishes, amphibians, reptiles and mammals. Yet already Ernst Haeckels famous phylogenetic tree of 1874 shows the birds nested within the reptiles. The five-classes paradigm has fallen to pieces since the beginning of cladistics. The last two decades have provided enormous amounts of new information leading to large shifts in our knowledge. Not everything with feathers is a bird; Jurassic Park is not only wrong in showing mostly Cretaceous animals, but also in showing them unfeathered. And chickens and sparrows are dinosaurs, that for that reason never became extinct.
Kort CV Jelle Reumer
Jelle Reumer (1953) studied biology at Utrecht University and obtained a PhD on a thesis about Plio-Pleistocene shrews. After a short career at the University of Geneva he became director of the Natural History Museum in Rotterdam in 1987. Since 2005 he has a part-time professorship in Vertebrate Paleontology at Utrecht University. Reumer published 100+ scientific papers, in addition to columns and several books for a larger audience.-
- Prof.dr. Timothy R. Birkhead
Titel:The Study of Behaviour: Paradigms and Progress
My aim is to evaluate the use of paradigms in science and in animal behavior in particular. To do this I will explore the history of the study of behavior, starting in the seventeenth century, moving swiftly to the present day and beyond. Using examples, including some from my own work on sexual selection and sensory biology, I will show how paradigms have simultaneously advanced and constrained research. I will finish by speculating about future directions in the study of behavior.
Kort CV Timothy R. Birkhead
Name: BIRKHEAD, Timothy Robert Date of birth: 26 February 1950 Education after school: University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1969-1972
Wolfson College, Oxford 1972-1976Qualifications: 2004 Elected to the Royal Society 1995-1996 Leverhulme Research Fellow 1992-present Personal Chair 1990-1991 Nuffield Research Fellow 1989 D.Sc. (University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne) 1976 D. Phil. (Wolfson College, Oxford) 1972 Single Honours Zoology, 1st Class
