by Riley | Aug 5, 2016 | Book club, Books
Book Review A Riley & Whiting Collaboration Julia Riley’s Review: First, I would like to say as an expat Canadian researcher, I am happy to say that two Canadian professors wrote this book! Woot! This book proposes a means to tackle the effect corporatization of...
by Whiting | Jun 12, 2016 | Egernia, Social behaviour, Sociality, Tree skink project
Lizard Lab associate and honorary member Dr. James O’Hanlon has produced a fantastic mini-documentary about Julia Riley’s PhD work on tree skinks (Egernia striolata) and family living. The documentary offers some great views of our Albury study site and...
by Whiting | Feb 26, 2016 | Publications
by Whiting | Aug 10, 2014 | Cognition, PhD opportunity, Social behaviour, Social intelligence
We are looking for a PhD student to work on an Australian Research Council grant testing for social intelligence in Egernia skinks. Here is some background: Uncovering the evolution of intelligence is one of science’s greatest challenges. Social intelligence theory...
by Whiting | Aug 4, 2014 | Book club, Books
Review by James Baxter-Gilbert How to Make a Zombie: The Real Life (and Death) Science of Reanimation and Mind Control by Frank Swain. 2013. 256 pp. Oneworld Publications. ISBN 978-1-85168-944-6. If the concept of population dynamics has taught us anything it is that...
