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Marian Dawkins

February 15, 2024

Marian Stamp Dawkins CBE FRS[3] (born Marian Ellina Stamp; 13 February 1945)[2][4] is a British biologist and professor of ethology at the University of Oxford.[5] Her research interests include vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal consciousness and animal welfare.[6][7][8]

Marian Dawkins

CBE FRS
Marian Dawkins at the Royal Society admissions day in 2014
Born
Marian Ellina Stamp

(1945-02-13) 13 February 1945 (age 79)
Hereford, England
EducationQueen's College, London[2]
Alma materSomerville College, Oxford (BA, DPhil)
Known forAnimal welfare science
Spouse
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(m. 1967; div. 1984)​
Scientific career
Fields
InstitutionsUniversity of Oxford
ThesisThe Mechanism of Hunting by 'Searching Image' in Birds (1970)
Doctoral advisorNiko Tinbergen[1]
Websitewww.biology.ox.ac.uk/people/marian-stamp-dawkins-frs-cbe

Education edit

Dawkins was educated at Queen's College, London[2] and Somerville College, Oxford,[2] where she earned bachelor's and PhD (1970) degrees. Her doctoral research was supervised by Niko Tinbergen.[1]

Career and research edit

Dawkins was appointed a lecturer in zoology in 1977 and in 1998 was made professor of animal behaviour. She is currently (2014) Head of the Animal Behaviour Research Group and is the Director of the John Krebs Field Laboratory.[9]

Dawkins has written extensively on animal behaviour and issues of animal welfare. Along with other academics in the field, such as Ian Duncan,[10] Dawkins promoted the argument that animal welfare is about the feelings of animals.[11] This approach indicates the belief that animals should be considered as sentient beings. Dawkins wrote, "Let us not mince words: Animal welfare involves the subjective feelings of animals.[12]

In 1989, Dawkins published a study in which she filmed hens from above while they performed common behaviours (e.g. turning, standing, wing-stretching). From these films, she calculated the amount of floor-space required by the hens during these behaviours and compared this to the amount of floor-space available in battery cages. She was able to show that many of these common behaviours were highly restricted, or prevented, in battery cages.[13]

In 1990, she contributed to a paper in which she developed her ideas regarding how to assess animal welfare by asking questions of animals. She proposed using preference tests and consumer demand studies to ask what animals prefer (e.g. space, social contact) and how highly motivated they are for these. She argued that animals were more likely to suffer if they were not provided with resources for which they are highly motivated.[12]

Central to her most recent (2012) view on animal welfare is scepticism about whether science can establish that animals have consciousness and therefore its role in definition and measurement of animal welfare and suffering. Instead, her view is that good animal welfare rests on determining the needs and wants of animals, which do not require that they are conscious.[14] These theses are presented in her book Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being (2012).[15] Her views on animal consciousness have been criticised by evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff, who argues that she too readily rejects anthropomorphic research on animals.[16][17] She responded to the criticism by stating her position as "wrongly interpreted", and says that "my concern is to make the case for animal emotions as watertight as possible and thereby to strengthen it. That is the way science progresses and always has."[18][19]

Selected publications edit

Awards and honours edit

Dawkins was awarded the RSPCA/British Society for Animal Protection prize in 1991, Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour's Niko Tinbergen Medal in 2009, and the World Poultry Science Association Robert Fraser Gordon Medal in 2011.[9]

Dawkins was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to animal welfare.[20] In 2014, she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS) for “substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge”.[3]

Personal life edit

She was born in Hereford to Arthur Maxwell Stamp and (Alice) Mary Stamp (née Richards).[2]

On 19 August 1967, she married fellow ethologist Richard Dawkins in the Protestant church in Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland.[2][21] They divorced in 1984. She remains known as Marian Stamp Dawkins.[2]

References edit

  1. ^ a b Dawkins, Marian (1970). . jisc.ac.uk (DPhil thesis). University of Oxford. OCLC 952665959. EThOS uk.bl.ethos.453252. Archived from the original on 12 September 2018. Retrieved 11 September 2018.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g Anon (2017). "Dawkins, Prof. Marian Ellina Stamp". Who's Who (online Oxford University Press ed.). Oxford: A & C Black. doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U275604. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ a b Anon (2014). . royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:

    “All text published under the heading 'Biography' on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.” --. Archived from the original on 11 November 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2018.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  4. ^ "Marian Ellina Dawkins (née Stamp) – Person – National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
  5. ^ . University of Oxford, Department of Zoology. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
  6. ^ Guilford, T.; Dawkins, M. S. (1991). (PDF). Animal Behaviour. 42: 1–14. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(05)80600-1. S2CID 6582428. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  7. ^ Marian Dawkins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  8. ^ Dawkins, M. S. (1983). "Battery hens name their price: Consumer demand theory and the measurement of ethological 'needs'" (PDF). Animal Behaviour. 31 (4): 1195–1205. doi:10.1016/S0003-3472(83)80026-8. S2CID 53137284.
  9. ^ a b "Prof Marian Dawkins, CBE". Debrett's. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
  10. ^ Duncan, I.J.H. (1996). "Animal welfare defined in terms of feelings". Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A. 27: 29–35.
  11. ^ Dawkins, M.S. (1980). Animal Suffering: The Science Of Animal Welfare. Chapman & Hall, London.
  12. ^ a b Dawkins, M. S. (2011). (PDF). Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 13 (1): 1. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00077104. S2CID 145424732. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
  13. ^ Dawkins, M. S.; Hardie, S. (1989). "Space needs of laying hens". British Poultry Science. 30 (2): 413–416. doi:10.1080/00071668908417163.
  14. ^ Clark, Judy Macarthur (2013). "Crystallizing the Animal Welfare State Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being. Marian Stamp Dawkins . Oxford University Press, 2012 . 224 pp., illus. $24.95". BioScience. 63: 57–59. doi:10.1525/bio.2013.63.1.13., (ISBN 9780199747511 cloth)  
  15. ^ Dawkins, M. S. (2012). Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-958782-7.
  16. ^ Marc, Bekoff. "Do animals think and feel?". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
  17. ^ Bekoff, M. (2012). "Animals are conscious and should be treated as such". New Scientist. 215 (2883): 24–25. Bibcode:2012NewSc.215...24B. doi:10.1016/S0262-4079(12)62435-X.
  18. ^ Dawkins, Marian Stamp (2012) Convincing the Unconvinced That Animal Welfare Matters Huffington Post, 8 June 2012.
  19. ^ Dawkins, Marian Stamp (2013) What do animals want? Edge, 31 October 2013.
  20. ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 8.
  21. ^ Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder – The Making of a Scientist, p.201.

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February 15, 2024
marian, dawkins, marian, stamp, dawkins, born, marian, ellina, stamp, february, 1945, british, biologist, professor, ethology, university, oxford, research, interests, include, vision, birds, animal, signalling, behavioural, synchrony, animal, consciousness, a. Marian Stamp Dawkins CBE FRS 3 born Marian Ellina Stamp 13 February 1945 2 4 is a British biologist and professor of ethology at the University of Oxford 5 Her research interests include vision in birds animal signalling behavioural synchrony animal consciousness and animal welfare 6 7 8 Marian DawkinsCBE FRSMarian Dawkins at the Royal Society admissions day in 2014BornMarian Ellina Stamp 1945 02 13 13 February 1945 age 79 Hereford EnglandEducationQueen s College London 2 Alma materSomerville College Oxford BA DPhil Known forAnimal welfare scienceSpouseRichard Dawkins m 1967 div 1984 wbr Scientific careerFieldsEthology Animal welfareInstitutionsUniversity of OxfordThesisThe Mechanism of Hunting by Searching Image in Birds 1970 Doctoral advisorNiko Tinbergen 1 Websitewww wbr biology wbr ox wbr ac wbr uk wbr people wbr marian stamp dawkins frs cbe Contents 1 Education 2 Career and research 2 1 Selected publications 2 2 Awards and honours 3 Personal life 4 ReferencesEducation editDawkins was educated at Queen s College London 2 and Somerville College Oxford 2 where she earned bachelor s and PhD 1970 degrees Her doctoral research was supervised by Niko Tinbergen 1 Career and research editDawkins was appointed a lecturer in zoology in 1977 and in 1998 was made professor of animal behaviour She is currently 2014 Head of the Animal Behaviour Research Group and is the Director of the John Krebs Field Laboratory 9 Dawkins has written extensively on animal behaviour and issues of animal welfare Along with other academics in the field such as Ian Duncan 10 Dawkins promoted the argument that animal welfare is about the feelings of animals 11 This approach indicates the belief that animals should be considered as sentient beings Dawkins wrote Let us not mince words Animal welfare involves the subjective feelings of animals 12 In 1989 Dawkins published a study in which she filmed hens from above while they performed common behaviours e g turning standing wing stretching From these films she calculated the amount of floor space required by the hens during these behaviours and compared this to the amount of floor space available in battery cages She was able to show that many of these common behaviours were highly restricted or prevented in battery cages 13 In 1990 she contributed to a paper in which she developed her ideas regarding how to assess animal welfare by asking questions of animals She proposed using preference tests and consumer demand studies to ask what animals prefer e g space social contact and how highly motivated they are for these She argued that animals were more likely to suffer if they were not provided with resources for which they are highly motivated 12 Central to her most recent 2012 view on animal welfare is scepticism about whether science can establish that animals have consciousness and therefore its role in definition and measurement of animal welfare and suffering Instead her view is that good animal welfare rests on determining the needs and wants of animals which do not require that they are conscious 14 These theses are presented in her book Why Animals Matter Animal Consciousness Animal Welfare and Human Well being 2012 15 Her views on animal consciousness have been criticised by evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff who argues that she too readily rejects anthropomorphic research on animals 16 17 She responded to the criticism by stating her position as wrongly interpreted and says that my concern is to make the case for animal emotions as watertight as possible and thereby to strengthen it That is the way science progresses and always has 18 19 Selected publications edit Animal Suffering The Science of Animal Welfare Chapman and Hall 1980 ISBN missing Unravelling Animal Behaviour Longman 1986 ISBN missing The Tinbergen legacy Edited by Marian Stamp Dawkins Tim R Halliday and Richard Dawkins London Chapman amp Hall 1991 ISBN missing Through Our Eyes Only The Search for Animal Consciousness Oxford Oxford University Press 1993 ISBN missing Living with the Selfish Gene One of the collected essays in Richard Dawkins How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think Editors Alan Grafen Mark Ridley Oxford University Press 2006 ISBN missing The scientific basis for assessing suffering in animals PDF Version Chapter in Peter Singer In Defense of Animals The Second Wave Malden MA Blackwell 2006 ISBN missing Observing Animal Behaviour Design and Analysis of Quantitative Data Oxford Oxford University Press 2007 ISBN missing The Future of Animal Farming Renewing the Ancient Contract Edited by Marian Stamp Dawkins and Roland Bonney Malden MA Blackwell 2008 ISBN missing An Introduction to Animal Behaviour With Aubrey Manning Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2012 ISBN missing Why Animals Matter Animal Consciousness Animal Welfare and Human Well being Oxford Oxford University Press 2012 ISBN missing Awards and honours edit Dawkins was awarded the RSPCA British Society for Animal Protection prize in 1991 Association for the Study of Animal Behaviour s Niko Tinbergen Medal in 2009 and the World Poultry Science Association Robert Fraser Gordon Medal in 2011 9 Dawkins was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire CBE in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to animal welfare 20 In 2014 she was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society FRS for substantial contributions to the improvement of natural knowledge 3 Personal life editShe was born in Hereford to Arthur Maxwell Stamp and Alice Mary Stamp nee Richards 2 On 19 August 1967 she married fellow ethologist Richard Dawkins in the Protestant church in Annestown County Waterford Ireland 2 21 They divorced in 1984 She remains known as Marian Stamp Dawkins 2 References edit a b Dawkins Marian 1970 The Mechanism of Hunting by Searching Image in Birds jisc ac uk DPhil thesis University of Oxford OCLC 952665959 EThOS uk bl ethos 453252 Archived from the original on 12 September 2018 Retrieved 11 September 2018 a b c d e f g Anon 2017 Dawkins Prof Marian Ellina Stamp Who s Who online Oxford University Press ed Oxford A amp C Black doi 10 1093 ww 9780199540884 013 U275604 Subscription or UK public library membership required a b Anon 2014 Professor Marian Dawkins CBE FRS royalsociety org London Royal Society Archived from the original on 14 March 2016 One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety org website where All text published under the heading Biography on Fellow profile pages is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4 0 International License Terms conditions and policies Archived from the original on 11 November 2016 Retrieved 11 September 2018 a href Template Cite web html title Template Cite web cite web a CS1 maint bot original URL status unknown link Marian Ellina Dawkins nee Stamp Person National Portrait Gallery www npg org uk Staff Academic Marian Dawkins University of Oxford Department of Zoology Archived from the original on 11 March 2012 Retrieved 1 July 2011 Guilford T Dawkins M S 1991 Receiver psychology and the evolution of animal signals PDF Animal Behaviour 42 1 14 doi 10 1016 S0003 3472 05 80600 1 S2CID 6582428 Archived from the original PDF on 22 February 2022 Retrieved 13 February 2020 Marian Dawkins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database subscription required Dawkins M S 1983 Battery hens name their price Consumer demand theory and the measurement of ethological needs PDF Animal Behaviour 31 4 1195 1205 doi 10 1016 S0003 3472 83 80026 8 S2CID 53137284 a b Prof Marian Dawkins CBE Debrett s Archived from the original on 2 January 2014 Retrieved 4 January 2014 Duncan I J H 1996 Animal welfare defined in terms of feelings Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica Section A 27 29 35 Dawkins M S 1980 Animal Suffering The Science Of Animal Welfare Chapman amp Hall London a b Dawkins M S 2011 From an animal s point of view Motivation fitness and animal welfare PDF Behavioral and Brain Sciences 13 1 1 doi 10 1017 S0140525X00077104 S2CID 145424732 Archived from the original PDF on 11 February 2021 Retrieved 13 February 2020 Dawkins M S Hardie S 1989 Space needs of laying hens British Poultry Science 30 2 413 416 doi 10 1080 00071668908417163 Clark Judy Macarthur 2013 Crystallizing the Animal Welfare State Why Animals Matter Animal Consciousness Animal Welfare and Human Well being Marian Stamp Dawkins Oxford University Press 2012 224 pp illus 24 95 BioScience 63 57 59 doi 10 1525 bio 2013 63 1 13 ISBN 9780199747511 cloth nbsp Dawkins M S 2012 Why Animals Matter Animal Consciousness Animal Welfare and Human Well being Oxford University Press ISBN 978 0 19 958782 7 Marc Bekoff Do animals think and feel Psychology Today Retrieved 2 January 2014 Bekoff M 2012 Animals are conscious and should be treated as such New Scientist 215 2883 24 25 Bibcode 2012NewSc 215 24B doi 10 1016 S0262 4079 12 62435 X Dawkins Marian Stamp 2012 Convincing the Unconvinced That Animal Welfare Matters Huffington Post 8 June 2012 Dawkins Marian Stamp 2013 What do animals want Edge 31 October 2013 No 60728 The London Gazette Supplement 31 December 2013 p 8 Richard Dawkins An Appetite for Wonder The Making of a Scientist p 201 nbsp This article incorporates text available under the CC BY 4 0 license Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Marian Dawkins amp oldid 1196730362, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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