David George Charles Harper is the senior lecturer in Evolutionary Biology in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, England. He lectures on animal diversity, Darwinism, co-operation and conflict in animal societies, wildlife conservation and applied systematics.
Harper was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham. He earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford. In addition to lecturing, he researches the behavioural ecology of passerine birds, especially robins.
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