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Two new Research Assistants join EVOECOCOG team
Welcome to Sam Crofts and Sam Bayley, who have recently joined our team as Research Assistants.
They have joined a team of researchers interested in understanding why individuals vary in their cognitive abilities. The Evolutionary Ecology of Cognition (EVOECOCOG) - an ERC funded project - takes the disciplines of cognition and evolutionary biology into a natural setting to answer this question. It aims to do this by investigating a variety of proximate causes and population-level consequences of individual cognitive variation using a great tit Parus major population. The project represents one of the first large-scale integrative studies of cognitive performance on any wild population. Sam Crofts will be based in Oxford, UK, working in Wytham Wood, as part of a collaboration with the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford. Sam Bayley will be based at the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences at UCC.