Robert Peter Marler ForMemRS (born February 24 1928 London) is a British - American neurobiologist, and ethologist. He is emeritus professor of neurobiology, physiology and ethology of the University of California, Davis.[1] He was a 1964 Guggenheim Fellow.[2]
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He graduated from University College London, with a BS in 1948, and a Ph.D. in Botany in 1952. In 1954, he graduated from the University of Cambridge a second Ph.D. in zoology. From 1954 to 1956, he worked as a research assistant to William Homan Thorpe and Robert Hinde at Jesus College, Cambridge. In 1957, he became a professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1966, he was a professor at Rockefeller University, and in 1969 became director of the Institute for Research in Animal Behavior, and in 1972 of the Field Research Center for Ethology and Ecology. In 1989, Marler is Professor at the University of California, Davis. In 1994, he was retired, but still took over from 1996 to 2000 the management of the local Center for Animal Behavior.
Marler is an internationally recognized researcher in the field of bird song, especially with his work he was able to songbirds such as finches and roof Sammern gain fundamental insights into the acquisition of song. Even the acquisition of communication skills of primates, Marler contributed important works, studies on chimpanzees and gorillas along with Jane Goodall and Hugo van Lawick; studies on the southern green monkey, together with Tom Struhsaker, Dorothy Cheney and Robert Seyfarth. His work led to groundbreaking insights into the memory, learning, and the importance of auditory and social experience. His work group has included many well-known ornithologist and behavioral scientists like: Mark Konishi, Fernando Nottebohm, Susan Peters, Don Kroodsma, Bill Searcy, Steve Nowicki, Ken Yasukawa, and John Wingfield.