Jun.-Prof. Dr. Jonathan Henshaw

Focus of research

• Causes and consequences of natural selection
• Sexual selection and the evolution of mating systems
• Evolution of parental care

CV

• Since 2020 Junior professor, Institute of Biology I, University of Freiburg
• 2018–2020 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Idaho
• 2018 Postdoctoral fellow, University of Jyväskylä
• 2013–2017 Doctor of Philosophy (J. G. Crawford Prize), Australian National University
• 2016–2017 Ernst Mach Scholar, University of Graz
• 2007–2012 Bachelor of Philosophy (Science) Hons (University Medal), Australian National University

Selected publications

• Henshaw JM, Fromhage L, Jones AG (2022). The evolution of mating preferences for genetic attractiveness and quality. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 119(33): e2206262119 (doi:10.1073/pnas.2206262119)
• Fromhage L, Henshaw JM (2022). The balance model of honest sexual signalling. Evolution 76(3): 445-454 (doi:10.1111/evo.14436)
• Henshaw JM, Morrissey MB, Jones AG (2020). Quantifying the causal pathways contributing to natural selection. Evolution 74(12): 2560-2574 (doi:10.1111/evo.14091)
• Henshaw JM, Fromhage L, Jones AG (2019). Sex roles and the evolution of parental care specialization. Proceedings of the Royal Society B 286(1909): 20191312 (doi:10.1098/rspb.2019.1312)
• Henshaw JM, Kahn AT, Fritzsche K (2016). A rigorous comparison of sexual selection indexes via simulations of diverse mating systems. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 113(3): E300 E308 (doi:10.1073/pnas.1518067113)