Rosalind Achebe
Evolutionary biologist working on convergent cognition in invertebrates. Teaches the comparative weeks and marks the cognitive profiles.
- Affiliation
- Slop University Department of Comparative Behaviour
- rosalind.achebe@slop.university
- Contact
- Email about organism choice for the profile before you commit to one — a badly chosen organism is the most common way that assessment goes wrong.
I work on capacities that evolved more than once, which is the most useful evidence there is that a capacity solves a real problem rather than being an accident of one lineage. Bees, spiders and cephalopods arrived at parts of this independently, and the fact that they did is why weeks 8 to 10 exist.
I teach weeks 2, 3, 4, 8, 9 and 10, and I mark the cognitive profiles.
What to ask me#
Which organism to profile. Come early, and come with two options rather than one — I will usually tell you which has the literature to support the sections you have to fill in. Charismatic animals are over-chosen and under-evidenced, and the octopus is the worst offender.