Assistant Professor Adjunct • Ph.D., Harvard University, 2017
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Animal behavior is radical because it lives so close to the center of us. Understanding how other animals live their lives shows us the forces that shape what we do and who we can be. We see ourselves reflected in how animals behave聽补苍诲听in how we think about animals behaving. Animal behavior is about action, connection, and context鈥攁ll of the most complex things.听In my lab, we seek to understand the lives of animals using field-based observations and measurement of animal behavior, ecology, and morphology, statistical modeling, and close interdisciplinary engagement with ideas from evolutionary theory, queer and feminist science and technology studies, political ecology, philosophy and more.听
鈥淪elected Publications鈥� summary:
- Kamath, A, NC Herrmann, K Gotanda, KC Shim, J LaFond, G Cottone, H Falkner, TS Campbell, and YE Stuart. 2020.听Character displacement in the midst of background evolution in island populations of聽Anolis聽lizards: A spatiotemporal perspective. Evolution 74: 2250-2264. doi:10.1111/evo.14079
- Monk JM, E Giglio, A Kamath, MR Lambert, and CE McDonough. 2019. An alternative hypothesis for the evolution of same-sex sexual behaviour in animals.听Nature Ecology and Evolution聽doi: 10.1038/s41559-019-1019-7
- Kamath A, and AB Wesner. 2020. Animal territoriality, access, and property: A collaborative exchange between behavioral ecology and the social sciences.听Animal Behaviour聽164: 233-239.doi: 10.1016/j.anbehav.2019.12.009
- Kamath A, and JB Losos. 2018.听Estimating encounter rates as the first step of sexual selection in the lizard聽Anolis sagrei.听Proceedings of the Royal Society B聽285: 1873