Assistant Professor of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology

Overview

Almost no other animal on Earth sees the world the way humans do, so the visual experiences of most of Earth’s other inhabitants are alien to us; huge variation exists in, for example, how animals see color and spatial detail. Dr. Caves' research seeks to understand how and why animals do what they do by trying to see the world through their eyes. Her lab blends animal behavior, sensory ecology, and evolutionary biology to try and understand animal cooperation, specifically how members of different species perceive and recognize one another, and decide to cooperate.

 

Dr. Caves completed an M.Phil in Zoology at the University of Cambridge, a Ph.D. in Biology at Duke University, and a Marie Sklodowska-Curie Research Fellowship at the University of Exeter before joining the faculty as an assistant professor in the Ecology, Evolution, & Marine Biology Department at the University of California Santa Barbara in 2021. In 2024, she began her appointment as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Organismal Biology at Brown.

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