Thomas N. Sherratt

Thomas "Tom" N. Sherratt is a professor of evolutionary ecology at Carleton University, Canada. He is known for his research on camouflage, aposematism and mimicry.

Life Sherratt earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Edinburgh, and gained his Ph.D. at the University of Dundee. He states that the two main themes in his research laboratory are the evolution of surprising traits in behaviour and morphology, including co-operation with unrelated individuals (as opposed to kin selection) and the existence of conspicuous warning signals; and the way that individual behaviour shapes the spatio-temporal dynamics of populations, as when travelling waves are set up when individuals move over a landscape feature.

Books Ruxton, G.D., Allen W., Sherratt T.N. & Speed M.P. (2018). Avoiding Attack: the Evolutionary Ecology of Crypsis, Warning Signals and Mimicry. Second Edition Oxford University Press. Sherratt, T. N.; Wilkinson, D. M. (2009). Big Questions in Ecology and Evolution. Oxford University Press. Ruxton Graeme D., Sherratt, T. N.; Speed, M. P. (2004). Avoiding attack: the evolutionary ecology of crypsis, warning signals and mimicry. Oxford University Press.