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  • 2012 - Fellow of the Royal Society, United Kingdom

Overview

John M. McNamara is affiliated with the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and focuses on research predominantly in the social sciences. Their work spans multiple subfields including sociology and political science, genetics, ecology, evolution, behavior and systematics, social psychology, and cultural studies.

The scientist has contributed to a variety of main research topics such as evolutionary game theory and cooperation, evolution and genetic dynamics, animal behavior and reproduction, plant and animal studies, language and cultural evolution, experimental behavioral economics studies, and evolutionary psychology and human behavior.

Frequent publication venues for McNamara include:

  • Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • British journal of surgery
  • Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by McNamara are:

  • Towards an Evolutionary Theory of Stress Responses, 2020, Trends in Ecology & Evolution
  • Game theory in biology: 50 years and onwards, 2023, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • Environmental variability, reliability of information and the timing of migration, 2020, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences
  • An evolutionary perspective on stress responses, damage and repair, 2022, Hormones and Behavior
  • Matching Behaviours and Rewards, 2021, Trends in Cognitive Sciences

McNamara frequently collaborates with several researchers, including Olof Leimar, Alasdair I. Houston, Sasha R. X. Dall, Bram Kuijper, and Zoltán Barta.

In addition to articles, McNamara has contributed to books published by Virginia Tech Publishing eBooks and Oxford University Press. Titles include "Human Anatomy Self-Assessment Review Questions," "Applied Human Anatomy," and "Applied Human Neuroanatomy" (all 2022), as well as "Game Theory in Biology" (2020).

Recognition for McNamara's work includes being named a Fellow of the Royal Society in the United Kingdom in 2012.

Best Publications

  • Developmental plasticity and human health.

    Patrick Bateson;David Barker;Timothy Clutton-Brock;Debal Deb

  • Information and its use by animals in evolutionary ecology

    Sasha R.X. Dall;Luc Alain Giraldeau;Ola Olsson;John M. McNamara

  • The behavioural ecology of personality: consistent individual differences from an adaptive perspective

    Sasha R. X. Dall;Alasdair I. Houston;John M. McNamara

  • State-dependent life histories

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • General results concerning the trade-off between gaining energy and avoiding predation

    Alasdair Ian Houston;John M. McNamara;John M. C. Hutchinson

  • The Common Currency for Behavioral Decisions

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Starvation and Predation as Factors Limiting Population Size

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The sexual selection continuum.

    Hanna Kokko;Robert Brooks;John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Incorporating rules for responding into evolutionary games

    John M. McNamara;Catherine E. Gasson;Alasdair I Houston

  • Dynamic models in behavioural and evolutionary ecology

    Alasdair Houston;Colin Clark;John McNamara;Marc Mangel

  • The value of fat reserves and the tradeoff between starvation and predation.

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Conflict between parents over care.

    Alasdair I. Houston;Tamás Székely;John M. McNamara

  • Capital breeding and income breeding: their meaning, measurement, and worth

    Philip A. Stephens;Ian L. Boyd;John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Optimal patch use in a stochastic environment

    John McNamara

  • Integrating function and mechanism

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The evolution of decision rules in complex environments

    Tim W. Fawcett;Benja Fallenstein;Andrew D. Higginson;Alasdair I. Houston

  • A framework for the functional analysis of behaviour

    Alasdair I. Houston;John M. McNamara

  • Optimal foraging and learning

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • The application of statistical decision theory to animal behaviour

    John McNamara;Alasdair Houston

  • Evolutionarily stable levels of vigilance as a function of group size

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

  • Foraging routines of small birds in winter: a theoretical investigation

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston;Steven L. Lima

  • Risk-sensitive foraging: A review of the theory

    John M. McNamara;Alasdair I. Houston

Frequent Co-Authors

Alasdair I. Houston
Alasdair I. Houston University of Bristol
Zoltán Barta
Zoltán Barta University of Debrecen
Sasha R. X. Dall
Sasha R. X. Dall University of Exeter
Tamás Székely
Tamás Székely University of Bath
Olof Leimar
Olof Leimar Stockholm University
Philip A. Stephens
Philip A. Stephens Durham University
Nigel R. Franks
Nigel R. Franks University of Bristol
Innes C. Cuthill
Innes C. Cuthill University of Bristol
Anna Dornhaus
Anna Dornhaus University of Arizona
Anders Hedenström
Anders Hedenström Lund University

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