Hiram Caton was Professor of Politics and History at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia until his retirement. Political ethology, with emphasis on crowd behavior and psychosocial identity, is one of his research fields.
He has held visiting appointments at the Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard University, the Department of Government, Harvard University, the Institut für Zeitgeschichte, Munich, and the Max Planck Institut für Humanethologie, Andechs.
He was a National Humanities Fellow in 1982-1983 and Research Fellow in the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, 1971-1976. He took his BA from Chicago and his PhD from Yale.
He was awarded the Doctor of Letters for his book, The Politics of Progress: The Origins and Development of the Commerical Republic, 1600-1835. His hobbies include astronomy, dabbling in graphic arts, Inca and Aztec antiquities, watching children, and theories of evolution alternative to natural selection. His favorite wacky idea is that the exhaustion of world petroleum reserves, coming soon, will probably induce some creative adjustments in consumer culture.
This web site explores Charles Darwin's legacy in the run up to the Darwin 200 bicentennial celebrations, Darwin 2009.
