Videos
Seven Deadly Sins: Lust- Is Love Blind?
Rob Brooks recently participated in a Valentine’s day event at the Royal Institution of Australia in Adelaide on Lust – is love blind? The video for this even is streaming at:
Secrets of high liz-ibility
If you've ever tried waving to someone in a crowd, you'll how hard it is for small rainforest animals to signal to each other with so many other distractions to catch the eye. Dr Terrry Ord took his camera and robotic creature into the field to find out how lizards cope with visual noise.
Jaws
Work by Toni Ferrara and Steve Wroe on shark biomechanics featured on ABC's Catalyst.
E&ERC Postgraduate Student wins the UNSW Three Minute Thesis Competition
A presentation by centre Postgraduate Alex Jordan exploring why males are not more promiscuous has won the inaugural UNSW Three Minute Thesis competition.
Research by Alex suggests male promiscuity is not more common – despite its potential evolutionary advantages – because it’s subject to natural limitations.
Alex used tropical fish to show that promiscuous males will forgo essential life tasks in favour of sexual effort: the trade-off was that they grew more slowly and died younger. His work will be published in the Journal of Evolutionary Biology.
