Peer-reviewed publications

Brindle, M., Talbot, C. F., & West, S. (2025) A comparative approach to the evolution of kissing. Evolution and Human Behaviour, 47, 106788.

Brindle, M., Ferguson-Gow, H., Willamson, J., Thomsen, R., Cowlishaw, G., & Sommer, V. (2023). The evolution of masturbation is associated with postcopulatory selection and pathogen avoidance in primates. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 290, 20230061.

Sommer, V., Thomsen, R., & Brindle, M. (2022). Masturbation in primates. In T. Shackelford (Ed.) The Cambridge handbook of evolutionary perspectives on sexual psychology. Cambridge: CUP.

Havercamp, K., Brindle, M., Sommer, V., & Hirata, S. (2022). Spontaneous nocturnal erections and masturbation in captive male chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes). Behaviour, 159, 1177-1191.

Gilbert, J. D., Brindle, M., & Faulkes, C. G. (2022). Anecdotal observation of a sexual encounter between two male naked mole-rats. Behaviour, 159, 1087-1099.

Brindle, M. (2018). Postcopulatory Selection. In J. Vonk & T. Shackelford (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Animal Cognition and Behavior (pp. 1–4). Springer International Publishing.

Brindle, M., & Opie, C. (2016). Postcopulatory sexual selection influences baculum evolution in primates and carnivores. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 283, 20161736.

Turner, J., Bell-Roberts, L., McCulloch, J., Brindle, M., Bonifacii, R., & West., S. (2025). Multiple origins of worker sterility and reproductive size dimorphism support the size-complexity hypothesis in ants. Evolution, qpaf250.

Williamson, J., Teh, E., Jucker, T., Brindle, M., ... & Slade, E. M. (2022). Local‐scale temperature gradients driven by human disturbance shape the physiological and morphological traits of dung beetle communities in a Bornean oil palm–forest mosaic. Functional Ecology, 36(7), 1655-1667.

Kou, C., Kang, C., Brindle, M., … & Williamson, J. Temperature and Ultraviolet Radiation Drive Divergent Visible and Near-Infrared Reflectance Patterns in Butterflies. (2025). bioRxiv, 2025.12.16.694481.