Vertebrate and anthropology palaeobiology

Investigating if cutmarks can be used to determine the stage of carcass decay in ancient remains.

Focussing on three chronological periods of human presence in the British Isles, from the earliest occupation through to extinction of the Neanderthals and the emergence of modern humans.

Reconstructing the relationships between deer populations that lived in Europe between 2.5 million years ago and the present.

Researching the cause of megafaunal extinction in the last major extinction event.

There are two forms of African elephant, with different distributions and very marked physical differences.

Studying the effect of dramatic environmental changes over the last 800,000 years on the origin and diversification of dwarf elephants and dwarf deer. 

Species behaviour has the potential to lead morphological evolution, by placing the organism under novel selection pressures.

Studying the morphology of Borneo elephants, an interesting population that is genetically distinct from all other living elephant populations.

Investigating the causes of variation in mammal body size during the Quaternary period by comparing ice-age mammal species from the past 750,000 years in Britain.

Using fossil mammoth molars to study how animals adapted to a tropical climate evolved into the woolly mammoth of the late ice age.