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Marian Stamp Dawkins is professor for animal behaviour at the University of Oxford She has published several books, one of which has been translated into German, and many peer-reviewed papers. Her research interests include vision in birds, animal signalling, behavioural synchrony, animal consciousness and animal welfare.

She is skeptical about consciousness of nonhuman animals. In her book Why Animals Matter: Animal Consciousness, Animal Welfare, and Human Well-being (2012) she wrote "there is no proof either way about animal consciousness and that it does not serve animals well to claim that there is". Evolutionary biologist Marc Bekoff vigorously criticized Dawkins for denying a large body of solid scientific data. She responded the criticism to 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."

Bibliography

• Animal Suffering: The Science of Animal Welfare. Chapman and Hall. 1980.
• Unravelling Animal Behaviour. Longman. 1986.
• Through Our Eyes Only?: The Search for Animal Consciousness. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 1993.
• She was coauthor with Aubrey Manning of the fourth and fifth editions of An Introduction to Animal Behaviour. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 1993 and 1998.
• 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

References

1. "Staff:Academic Marian Dawkins". University of Oxford, Department of Zoology. Retrieved 1 July 2011.
2. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/animal-emotions/201205/animal-consciousness-and-science-matter
3. Dawkins, Marian Stamp (2012) Convincing the Unconvinced That Animal Welfare Matters Huffington Post, 8 June 2012.
4. Dawkins, Marian Stamp (2013) What do animals want? Edge, 31 October 2013.

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