Marian Dawkins
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Known for | Animal welfare science |
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Institutions | Niko Tinbergen[1] |
Website | www |
Marian Stamp Dawkins
Education
Dawkins was educated at
Career and research
Dawkins was appointed a
Dawkins has written extensively on animal behaviour and issues of
In 1989, Dawkins published a study in which she filmed hens from above while they performed common behaviours (e.g. turning, standing, wing-stretching). From these films, she calculated the amount of floor-space required by the hens during these behaviours and compared this to the amount of floor-space available in battery cages. She was able to show that many of these common behaviours were highly restricted, or prevented, in battery cages.[13]
In 1990, she contributed to a paper in which she developed her ideas regarding how to assess animal welfare by asking questions of animals. She proposed using preference tests and consumer demand studies to ask what animals prefer (e.g. space, social contact) and how highly motivated they are for these. She argued that animals were more likely to suffer if they were not provided with resources for which they are highly motivated.[12]
Central to her most recent (2012) view on animal welfare is scepticism about whether science can establish that animals have consciousness and therefore its role in definition and measurement of animal welfare and suffering. Instead, her view is that good animal welfare rests on determining the needs and wants of animals, which do not require that they are conscious.[14] These theses are presented in her book Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being (2012).[15] Her views on animal consciousness have been criticised by evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff, who argues that she too readily rejects anthropomorphic research on animals.[16][17] She responded to the criticism by stating her position as "wrongly interpreted", and says that "my concern is to make the case for animal emotions as watertight as possible and thereby to strengthen it. That is the way science progresses and always has."[18][19]
Selected publications
- Animal Suffering: The Science of Animal Welfare. Chapman and Hall. 1980.[ISBN missing]
- Unravelling Animal Behaviour. Longman. 1986.[ISBN missing]
- The Tinbergen legacy. Edited by Marian Stamp Dawkins, Tim R. Halliday and Richard Dawkins. London: Chapman & Hall. 1991.[ISBN missing]
- Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1993.[ISBN missing]
- Living with the Selfish Gene. One of the collected essays in Richard Dawkins: How a Scientist Changed the Way We Think. Editors: Alan Grafen, Mark Ridley. Oxford University Press. 2006.[ISBN missing]
- The scientific basis for assessing suffering in animals. PDF Version Chapter in Peter Singer: In Defense of Animals: The Second Wave. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2006.[ISBN missing]
- Observing Animal Behaviour: Design and Analysis of Quantitative Data. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2007.[ISBN missing]
- The Future of Animal Farming: Renewing the Ancient Contract. Edited by Marian Stamp Dawkins and Roland Bonney. Malden, MA: Blackwell. 2008.[ISBN missing]
- An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. With Aubrey Manning. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2012.[ISBN missing]
- Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2012.[ISBN missing]
Awards and honours
Dawkins was awarded the
Dawkins was appointed
Personal life
She was born in Hereford to Arthur Maxwell Stamp and (Alice) Mary Stamp (née Richards).[2]
On 19 August 1967, she married fellow ethologist Richard Dawkins in the Protestant church in Annestown, County Waterford, Ireland.[2][21] They divorced in 1984. She remains known as Marian Stamp Dawkins.[2]
References
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- ^ doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U275604. (Subscription or UK public library membershiprequired.)
- ^ a b Anon (2014). "Professor Marian Dawkins CBE FRS". royalsociety.org. London: Royal Society. Archived from the original on 14 March 2016. One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from the royalsociety.org website where:
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- ^ "Staff:Academic Marian Dawkins". University of Oxford, Department of Zoology. Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
- S2CID 6582428. Archived from the original(PDF) on 22 February 2022. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
- ^ Marian Dawkins publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
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- ^ a b "Prof Marian Dawkins, CBE". Debrett's. Archived from the original on 2 January 2014. Retrieved 4 January 2014.
- ^ Duncan, I.J.H. (1996). "Animal welfare defined in terms of feelings". Acta Agriculturae Scandinavica, Section A. 27: 29–35.
- ^ Dawkins, M.S. (1980). Animal Suffering: The Science Of Animal Welfare. Chapman & Hall, London.
- ^ S2CID 145424732. Archived from the original(PDF) on 11 February 2021. Retrieved 13 February 2020.
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- ^ Marc, Bekoff. "Do animals think and feel?". Psychology Today. Retrieved 2 January 2014.
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- Huffington Post, 8 June 2012.
- ^ Dawkins, Marian Stamp (2013) What do animals want? Edge, 31 October 2013.
- ^ "No. 60728". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2013. p. 8.
- ^ Richard Dawkins, An Appetite for Wonder – The Making of a Scientist, p.201.
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