Tristram D. Wyatt

Tristram Dick Wyatt (16 December 1956) is a British evolutionary biologist and author. He is a senior research fellow in the Department of Zoology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. Wyatt researches pheromones and animal behavior. His 1983 dissertation was titled The ecology of parental care in the saltmarsh beetle Bledius spectabilis.

Academic career Wyatt was a lecturer at University of Leeds and conducted research fellowships at University of California, Berkeley and Cardiff University. He joined the Oxford University Department for Continuing Education in 1989 as a university lecturer of biological sciences. From 2000 to 2005, Wyatt was University of Oxford's director of distance and online learning. In 2015, he gave a TEDx talk entitled The smelly mystery of the human pheromone. Wyatt is a senior research fellow in the Department of Biology, University of Oxford and an emeritus fellow of Kellogg College, Oxford. He is a visiting lecturer at University College London.

Awards and honours In 2014, Wyatt's book, Pheromones and Animal Behaviour, won the Royal Society of Biology's best postgraduate textbook prize.

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