David George Charles Harper is the senior lecturer in Evolutionary Biology[1] in the School of Life Sciences at the University of Sussex, England.
[citation needed] Harper was born in Sutton Coldfield, Birmingham.
He earned his doctorate at the University of Cambridge and was a junior research fellow at St John's College, Oxford.
In addition to lecturing, he researches the behavioural ecology of passerine birds, especially robins.
[citation needed] Full list of publications as of 2023