Rob Brooks – Evolutionary Biologist & Author
Victorian naturalists, products of their stultifying and prudish age, held birds to be paragons of fidelity and wholesome family values. But the advent of modern DNA analysis showed that when bird-watchers pack up their binoculars and head home for dinner,…
A recent paper I wrote with Steve Simpson and David Raubenheimer explores how our evolved biological mechanisms that control how much we eat combine with modern economic circumstances to create the obesity crisis.
Rank Country Male obesity Female obesity Average obesity 1 Nauru 78 79.3 78.7 2 Samoa 80.2 69.3 74.8 3 Tokelau 67.8 58.6 63.2 4 Kiribati 58.9 41.7 50.3 5 Marshall Islands 53 39 46.0 6 Federated States of Micronesia…
News of Rob’s upcoming appearance in Adelaide, alongside the awesome Professor Bill von Hippel.
Congrats to Mike, Australian Postdoctiral Fellow in the Sex Lab, on being named a winners of the 2011 Young Investigator’s prizes by the American Society of Naturalists. He will get his prize and speak in a special symposium at the…
BROOKS, R., SCOTT, I.M., MAKLAKOV, A.A., KASUMOVIC, M.M., CLARK, A.P., PENTON-VOAK, I.S. National income inequality predicts women’s preferences for masculinized faces better than health does (Comment on paper by de Bruine et al). Proceedings of the Royal Society of London…
BROOKS, RC; SIMPSON, SJ; RAUBENHEIMER, D. 2010. The price of protein: combining evolutionary and economic analysis to understand excessive energy consumption. Obesity Reviews 11: 887-894.
A short tale about our recent exchange with Lise de Bruine, Ben Jones and Tony Little in the pages of Proceedings of the Royal Society, and the recent article on that exchange in the Economist.
Jules Shelly, designer of this website and the creative force behind www.bodylab.biz has left our shores after more than 2 years. We wish her and Sam well and hope the move goes smoothly.
Louise McKenzie got her PhD examiners’ reports back today. Some wonderful comments on a sparkling thesis. Well done Louise.