Winder, Isabelle - Bangor University - School of Biological Sciences

个人简介

Teaching Look out for me on: ONS-1001: Introductory Research Skills BSX-2021: BioScience Skills BSX-3150: Life in a Changing Climate Career history 2016-Present: Lecturer, Bangor University 2012-2015: ERC Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of York 2009-2012: PhD, University of York 2008-2009: MSc Palaeoanthropology, University of Sheffield 2005-2008: BSc Geography, University of Sheffield I am also an Honorary Research Associate of the Department of Musculoskeletal Biology, University of Liverpool (2014-2017) and the Department of Archaeology, University of York (2015-2018).

研究领域

I am broadly interested in the co-evolutionary ecology of the primates (including humans and their ancestors). I have worked particularly on three themes: 1. Interactions between landscape, ecosystem and organism in driving evolutionary change and the emergence of complex anatomies and behaviours. This work has had a particular focus on hominins, and on the complex ways in which our ancestors might have interacted with the heterogeneous, dynamic environments in which they lived. In 2013, we produced the new scrambler man hypothesis of human evolution, which proposes that these landscapes might be key to understanding our history. 2. The patterns and processes of evolutionary change itself, and especially the evidence for and potential impact of ideas linked to the proposed ‘Extended Synthesis’ of evolutionary theory. Such a synthesis would supplement the current Modern Synthesis view and focus more attention on non-adaptive or complex processes, like reticulate evolution (which is actually quite common), epigenetic change and gene-culture co-evolution. In 2015, we published a new vulnerable ape hypothesis which suggests that non-adaptive, bottleneck-driven rapid evolutionary change might be responsible for some key human features like straight feet and reduced dentition. 3. The significance of agency and complexity in biological systems. It seems to me obvious that agency (the capacity to make choices as to how to act) allows many species of mammal, and particularly primates, to influence their own environments and evolving ecologies. It is also evident that biological systems are highly complex, and that no one component can be understood entirely in isolation. Whole systems may be much more unwieldy, but they are also much more than the sums of their parts. I am keen to explore how this complexity manifests itself in biology, and how it impacts upon our understanding.

近期论文

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Winder, I.C. In Prep. The Landscapes of Human Evolution. To be published by Cambridge University Press. Winder, N.P. and Winder, I.C. 2015. Compassion, complexity and self-organisation: human evolution and the vulnerable ape hypothesis. Internet Archaeology 40. A full list of my publications can be found on my Research Gate webpage, at: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Isabelle_Winder Winder, I.C., King, G.C.P., Deves, M.H. and Bailey, G.N. 2013 Complex topography and human evolution: the missing link. Antiquity 87: 333-349. Winder, I.C. and Winder, N.P. 2014. Reticulation and the human past. Annals of Human Biology 41: 300-311. Winder, I.C., Deves, M.H., King, G.C.P., Bailey, G.N., Inglis, R.H. and Meredith-Williams, M.G. 2015. Evolution and dispersal of the genus Homo: a landscape approach. Journal of Human Evolution 87: 48-65.