The BEEP Lab is driven by awe and curiosity about the natural variation in the world, and by the fascination of watching animals in action.

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Charles Darwin expressed this sense of wonder:​

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“There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that, whilst this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed law of gravity, from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” —

On the Origin of Species (1859)​

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We integrate laboratory and field-based behavioural ecology to uncover the evolutionary processes that generate and maintain sexual dimorphism and intrasexual polymorphism in behaviour, physiology, and morphology across the landscape.