Anne-Claire Fabre
Research co-investigator at the Natural History Museum in London (United Kingdom). She is an evolutionary biologist principally interested in shape evolution in relation to functional morphology and behaviour. She completed a joint PhD between Paris (MNHN) and London (UCL) with Dr. Stéphane Peigné and Prof. Anjali Goswami as supervisors. *Click on the name to know more about her work on ResearchGate |
During her first post-doc (at Duke University funded by the Fondation Fyssen) she studied the evolution of grasping and locomotor behavior using a primate model system. This allowed her to link behavior, morphology, and mechanics and to make more solid inferences on fossil taxa. In her second post-doc (Marie-Skłodowska Curie fellowship at the Natural History Museum in Paris) she explored arboreal adaptations in primates and other tetrapods with manual grasping abilities. Within each clade she compared the use of the forelimb, its anatomy, and its function in both arboreal and terrestrial animals. She showed that the arboreal origin of fine manipulative capacities precedes the origin of grasping behaviour in several lineages. Dr. Fabre is currently working with Prof. A. Goswami at the Natural History Museum in London on the mosaic evolution of vertebrates with a special focus on shape evolution of the skull in relation to developmental strategies, functional traits, and ecology. Thus, her research on macroevolution is highly integrative linking different research areas in biology in order to understand the evolution of the shape of a structure in relation to function and behaviour. Her work has been published in leading international journals and she has been invited to present her work at international meetings and symposia. |