Antone Martinho-Truswell
Dean and Head of House, Graduate House, St Paul’s College, Sydney
Antone Martinho-Truswell is an evolutionary biologist and Dean of Graduate House at St Paul’s College, University of Sydney. He writes on human culture and society, evolution, and animal behaviour. His latest book The Parrot in the Mirror: How Evolving to Be Like Birds Made Us Human (Oxford University Press, 2022) explores the profound ways that human evolution has shaped us to behave less like fellow mammals and more like birds. He lives in Sydney, Australia.
Written by Antone Martinho-Truswell
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Human evolution
How like the kiwi we are
To understand helpless human babies, our big brains and oddly involved dads, look to the evolution of birds not mammals
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Rituals and celebrations
We need highly formal rituals in order to make life more democratic
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Human evolution
To automate is human
It’s not tools, culture or communication that make humans unique but our knack for offloading dirty work onto machines
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Personality
Pigs, parrots and people: the problem of animal personality
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Biology
The minds of other animals
Animal consciousness is taboo in many areas of biological science. What’s so hard about the inner lives of other species?
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