Aubrey Manning
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Aubrey William George Manning 24 April 1930 Chiswick, London |
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Aubrey William George Manning, OBE, FRSE, FRSB, (born 24 April 1930 in London, UK) is a distinguished English zoologist and broadcaster.
Manning was born in Chiswick, but moved with his family to Englefield Green in Surrey when the Second World War broke out. He was educated at Strode's Grammar School in Egham, at University College London, where he read zoology, and then at Merton College, Oxford, where he completed his DPhil under Niko Tinbergen. After National Service, he joined the University of Edinburgh as an assistant lecturer. His main research and teaching interests are on animal behaviour, development, and evolution. He has been involved with environmental issues since 1966, and with the Centre for Human Ecology since its inception at the University of Edinburgh in 1970. He was Professor of Natural History at the university from 1973–1997. In December 1997, a gallery in the Natural History Collection of Edinburgh University was named in his honour on his retirement. He is now Emeritus Professor.
Manning was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1973), and received an OBE in 1998. He also holds honorary doctorates from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, the University of St Andrews, and the Open University. He received the Zoological Society of London Silver Medal in 2003, for public understanding of science.
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