Rachael Brown completed degrees in Zoology and the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Melbourne, Australia. She was a PhD candidate at the School of Philosophy at the Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University in Canberra supervised by Kim Sterelny (chair), Paul Griffiths, and Brett Calcott and obtained a writing-up fellowship from the KLI in 2011. She is also a member of Tempo & Mode: Centre for Macroevolution and Macroecology, ANU. Her primary research interests lies at the intersection of philosophy, evolutionary biology and the study of animal behavior.