BEEM SEMINAR: Claire Spottiswoode, Cambridge University - Title: 'Co-evolution in the tropics: cuckoos versus hosts'
4:00pm - 5:00pm /
Tuesday 24th November 2015
Type: Seminar /
Category: Department
- Louise Crompton
- Admission: Free
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“This talk will be about the coevolutionary arms races that arise between brood parasites and their hosts they exploit to raise their young, focussing on various African bird species that I study in the field in Zambia. In particular, I’ll ask how antagonistic coevolution drives phenotypic diversification within species, and how this might be genetically maintained. I’ll finish with some new work on the double life of one my brood-parasitic study species, the greater honeyguide, which is also a mutualistic co-operator with human honey-hunters.”