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Dr Catherine Sheard

Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard
Dr Catherine Sheard

Interdisciplinary Fellow

Accepting PhDs

About
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School of Biological Sciences
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Biography

I am an evolutionary biologist who studies how innovations in behaviour shape trait distributions across broad swaths of space and time, particularly in birds and mammals. I frequently collaborate with linguists and anthropologists to translate methods developed in biology and palaeobiology to the study of human language/cultural evolution, with a particular interest in the relationship between people and their natural environment.

My Google Scholar page can be found here and more information about my research can be found here.

Qualifications

  • DPhil Zoology 
    2016 - University of Oxford 
  • BS Mathematics, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology 
    2012 - Yale University 

Memberships and Affiliations

Internal Memberships

* Member, SBS EDI Committee

External Memberships
  • Senior Editor, Global Ecology and Biogeography
  • Chair, BES Macro SIG
  • Diversity Committee Member, American Society of Naturalists
Research

Research Areas

Accepting PhDs

I am currently accepting PhDs in Biological and Environmental Sciences.

Please get in touch if you would like to discuss your research ideas further.

Biological and Environmental Sciences

Accepting PhDs
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Publications

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  • The Evolution of Australian Kin Terminologies: Models, Conditions, and Consequences

    Sheard, C., Jordan, F. M.
    Current Anthropology, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 60-61
    Contributions to Journals: Comments and Debates

  • Ecological and behavioural drivers of offspring size in marine teleost fishes

    Vanadzina, K., Phillips, A., Martins, B., Laland, K. n., Webster, M. m., Sheard, C.
    Global Ecology and Biogeography, vol. 30, no. 12, pp. 2407-2419
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Aposematism in mammals

    Howell, N., Sheard, C., Koneru, M., Brockelsby, K., Ono, K., Caro, T.
    Evolution, vol. 75, no. 10, pp. 2480-2493
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Tempo and mode of morphological evolution are decoupled from latitude in birds

    Drury, J. P., Clavel, J., Tobias, J. A., Rolland, J., Sheard, C., Morlon, H.
    PLoS Biology, vol. 19, no. 8, e3001270
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • CHIELD: the causal hypotheses in evolutionary linguistics database

    Roberts, S. g., Killin, A., Deb, A., Sheard, C., Greenhill, S. j., Sinnemäki, K., Segovia-Martín, J., Nölle, J., Berdicevskis, A., Humphreys-Balkwill, A., Little, H., Opie, C., Jacques, G., Bromham, L., Tinits, P., Ross, R. m., Lee, S., Gasser, E., Calladine, J., Spike, M., Mann, S. f., Shcherbakova, O., Singer, R., Zhang, S., Benítez-Burraco, A., Kliesch, C., Thomas-Colquhoun, E., Skirgård, H., Tamariz, M., Passmore, S., Pellard, T., Jordan, F.
    Journal of Language Evolution, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 101-120
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Pama-Nyungan grandparent systems change with grandchildren, but not cross-cousin terms or social norms

    Sheard, C., Bowern, C., Dockum, R., Jordan, F. M.
    Evolutionary Human Sciences, vol. 2, e30
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ecological drivers of global gradients in avian dispersal inferred from wing morphology

    Sheard, C., Neate-Clegg, M. H., Alioravainen, N., Jones, S. E., Vincent, C., MacGregor, H. E., Bregman, T. P., Claramunt, S., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Communications, vol. 11, no. 1, 2463
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Ecology and allometry predict the evolution of avian developmental durations

    Cooney, C. R., Sheard, C., Clark, A. D., Healy, S. D., Liker, A., Street, S. E., Troisi, C. A., Thomas, G. H., Székely, T., Hemmings, N., Wright, A. E.
    Nature Communications, vol. 11, 2383
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Macroevolutionary convergence connects morphological form to ecological function in birds

    Pigot, A. L., Sheard, C., Miller, E. T., Bregman, T. P., Freeman, B. G., Roll, U., Seddon, N., Trisos, C. H., Weeks, B. C., Tobias, J. A.
    Nature Ecology & Evolution, vol. 4, pp. 230-239
    Contributions to Journals: Articles

  • Evolution of avian egg shape: underlying mechanisms and the importance of taxonomic scale

    Stoddard, M. c., Sheard, C., Akkaynak, D., Yong, E. h., Mahadevan, L., Tobias, J. a.
    Ibis, vol. 161, no. 4, pp. 922-925
    Contributions to Journals: Articles
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