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News 2017
Two new papers by Dr Gabrielle Davidson
School of BEES Postdoctoral researcher Dr Gabrielle Davidson has recently published two articles.
The first article, published in Scientific Reports shows that Juvenile
Eurasian jays start to develop an understanding of how objects support
one another by 6 months of age, independently of early life experiences.
Read more here: http://www.nature.com/articles/srep40062
The second article, published in Biology Letters investigates why
passerine birds vary in eye colour by reconstructing the evolutionary
history of these colour traits. Birds that did not nest in cavities (e.g.
open-cup nesters) were under strong selection to evolve dark eyes. This
suggests that the need to camouflage from predators may constrain the
evolution of brightly coloured eyes in birds. Read more here:
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/13/1/20160783