“Getting to know you”: how do animals recognise each other and us? For social animals one of the major skills that must...
Animal senses: how do they perceive the world and what important things can they sense that we cannot? The way the world is perceived by any species is...
Is having a good parent more important than having good genes? Is having a good parent more important than having good...
Sexual conflict and the emergence of sexual equality and monogamy In many species that have adopted promiscuous reproductive strategies, competition...
Hormones, sex and animal passion: making pleasure out of necessity? This lecture considers different patterns of male and female sexual...
Commerce and Culture in the Late Twentieth Century This is the 2001 'Sir Thomas Gresham Annual Lecture'
Textual Communities: How do we recognise value in the verbal arts? A lecture to consider some of the new approaches to...
Do you take risks when you read? Risk-taking in literature A lecture on some writing whose form seems to place...