painting of baboons by Franz Marc painting of baboons by Franz Marc painting of baboons by Franz Marc

Dr. Gillian Brown

Wellcome Trust Career Development Fellow

School of Psychology, University of St. Andrews

Publications

  1. Lynn, D. A. and Brown, G. R. (2009) The ontogeny of exploratory behaviour in male and female adolescent rats (Rattus norvegicus). Developmental Psychobiology 51: 513-520. doi: 10.1002/dev.20386
  2. Brown, G. R., Laland, K. N. and Borgerhoff Mulder, M. (2009). Bateman’s principles and human sex roles. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 24: 297-304. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2009.02.005
  3. Brown, G. R. (2009) Caring cooperators: review of ‘Mothers and Others: the Evolutionary Origins of Mutual Understanding’ by Sarah Blaffer Hrdy. Science 324: 1646-1647. doi: 10.1126/science.1175159
  4. Brown, G. R. (2009) Evolutionary perspectives on sexual coercion in human beings and other primates: the future of the rape debate. A review of ‘Sexual Coercion in Primates and Humans: an Evolutionary Perspective on Male Aggression Against Females’, ed. M. N. Muller and R. W. Wrangham. Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 7: 347-350. doi: 10.1556/JEP.7.2009.4.7
  5. Hoppitt, W. J. E., Brown G. R., Kendal, R., Rendell, L. E., Thornton, A., Webster, M. M. and Laland, K. N. (2008). Lessons from animal teaching. Trends in Ecology and Evolution 23: 486-493. doi:10.1016/j.tree.2008.05.008
  6. Rapaport, L. M and Brown, G. R. (2008). Social influences on foraging behaviour in young non-human primates: learning what, where, and how to eat. Evolutionary Anthropology 17: 189-201. doi: 10.1002/evan.20180
  7. Silk, J. B. and Brown, G. R. (2008). Local resource competition and local resource enhancement shape primate birth sex ratios. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 275: 1761-1765. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2008.0340
  8. Brown, G. R. and Nemes, C. (2008). The exploratory behaviour of rats in the hole-board task: is head-dipping a valid measure of neophilia? Behavioral Processes 78: 442-448. doi:10.1016/j.beproc.2008.02.019
  9. Laland, K. N. and Brown, G. R. (2008) Commentary on ‘The chimpanzee has no clothes’ by Sayers and Lovejoy. Current Anthropology 49: 101-102. doi: 10.1086/523675
  10. Laland, K. N., Kendal, J. R. and Brown, G. R. (2007). The niche construction perspective: implications for evolution and human behaviour Journal of Evolutionary Psychology 5: 51-66. doi: 10.1556/JEP.2007.1003
  11. Laland, K. N. and Brown, G. R. (2006). Niche construction, human behaviour and the adaptive-lag hypothesis. Evolutionary Anthropology 15: 95-104. doi: 10.1002/evan.20093
  12. Almond, R. E. A., Brown, G. R. and Keverne, E. B. (2006). Suppression of prolactin does not reduce infant care by parentally experienced male common marmosets (Callithrix jacchus) Hormones and Behavior 49: 673-680. doi:10.1016/j.yhbeh.2005.12.009
  13. Brown, G. R. (2006). Sometimes an orgasm is just an orgasm. Review symposium with author’s response on Elisabeth A. Lloyd’s ‘The Case of the Female Orgasm: Bias in the Science of Evolution’. Metascience 15: 405-411. doi: 10.1007/s11016-006-9032-2
  14. Brown, G. R. (2006). Culture, genes and human evolution: a long-awaited account: review of Peter Richerson and Robert Boyd’s Not By Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution. Ethology 112: 1038-1039. doi: 10.1111/j.1439-0310.2006.01288.x
  15. Laland K. and Brown G. (2006). An introduction to evolutionary models of human social behaviour. In: Social Information Transmission and Human Biology. Ed.s J.C.K. Wells, S. Strickland and K. Laland. Taylor and Francis. Pp. 19-37.
  16. Silk, J. B., Willoughby, E. and Brown, G. R. (2005). Maternal rank and local resource competition do not predict birth sex ratios in wild baboons. Proc. Roy. Soc. Lond. B 272: 859-864. doi: 10.1098/rspb.2004.2994
  17. Brown, G. R., Almond, R. E. A. and Bates, N. J. (2005). Adult-infant food transfer in common marmosets: an experimental study. American Journal of Primatology 65: 301-312.
    doi: 10.1002/ajp.20117
  18. Brown, G. R. and Fawcett, T. W. (2005). Sexual selection: copycat mating in birds. Current Biology 15: R626-R628. doi:10.1016/j.cub.2005.08.005
  19. Brown, G. R., Almond, R. E. A. and van Bergen, Y. (2004). Begging, stealing and offering: food transfer in nonhuman primates. Advances in the Study of Behaviour 34: 265-295. doi.org/10.1016/S0065-3454(04)34007-6
  20. Silk, J. B. and Brown, G. R. (2004). Sex ratios in primate groups. Sexual Selection in Primates: New and Comparative Perspectives. Ed. P. Kappeler. Cambridge University Press. Pp. 253-265.
  21. Brown, G. R. (2004). Tolerated scrounging in nonhuman primates: commentary on ‘To give and to give not: the behavioral ecology of human food transfers’ by M. Gurven. Behavioral and Brain Sciences 27: 562-563. doi:10.1017/S0140525X04000123
  22. Laland, K. N. and Brown, G. R. (2003). Commentary on ‘Genes and culture: what creates our behavioral phenome’ by P. Ehrlich and M. Feldman. Current Anthropology 44: 100. doi: 10.1086/344470
  23. Laland, K. N. and Brown, G. R. (2002). Sense and Nonsense: Evolutionary Perspectives on Human Behaviour. Oxford University Press
  24. Brown, G. R. and Silk, J. B. (2002). Reconsidering the null hypothesis: is maternal rank associated with birth sex ratios in primate groups? PNAS 99: 11252-11255. doi: 10.1073/pnas.162360599
  25. Brown, G. R. (2001). Sex-biased investment in non-human primates: can Trivers and Willard’s theory be tested? Anim. Behav. 61: 683-694. doi: 10.1006/anbe.2000.1659
  26. Brown, G. R. (2001). Using proximity measures to describe mother-infant relationships. Folia Primatol. 72: 80-84. doi: 10.1159/000049926
  27. Brown, G. R. (2000). Can studying non-human primates inform us about human rape? A zoologist’s perspective. Psychology, Evolution and Gender 2: 321-324. doi: 10.1080/14616660010024625
  28. Brown, G. R. and Dixson, A. F. (2000). The development of behavioural sex differences in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Primates 41: 65-79. doi: 10.1007/BF02557462
  29. Brown, G. R. and Dixson, A. F. (1999). Investigation of the role of postnatal testosterone in the expression of sex differences in behavior in infant rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Hormones and Behavior 35: 186-194. doi:10.1006/hbeh.1999.1512
  30. Brown, G. R., Nevison, C. M., Fraser, H. M. and Dixson, A. F. (1999). Manipulation of postnatal testosterone affects phallic and clitoral development in infant rhesus monkeys. International Journal of Andrology 22: 119-128. doi: 10.1046/j.1365-2605.1999.00158.x
  31. Dixson, A. F., Brown, G. R. and Nevison, C. M. (1998). Developmental significance of the postnatal testosterone 'surge' in male primates. In: Males, Females, and Behavior: Towards Biological Understanding. Ed. L. Ellis and L. Ebertz; Chapter 8, pp. 129-145. Praeger.
  32. Nevison, C. M., Brown, G. R. and Dixson, A. F. (1997). Effects of altering testosterone in early infancy on social behaviour in captive yearling rhesus macaques. Physiology and Behavior 62: 1397-1403. doi:10.1016/S0031-9384(97)00209-6