Background
Manning was born in Chiswick, but moved with his family to Englefield Green in Surrey when the Second World War broke out.
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He was educated at Strode"s Grammar School in Egham, at University College London, where he read zoology, and then at Merton College, Oxford, where he completed his Doctor of Philosophy under Niko Tinbergen.
Career
After National Service, he joined the University of Edinburgh as an assistant lecturer. His main research and teaching interests are on animal behaviour, development, and evolution. He has been involved with environmental issues since 1966, and with the Centre for Human Ecology since its inception at the University of Edinburgh in 1970.
He was Professor of Natural History at the university from 1973–1997.
In December 1997, a gallery in the Natural History Collection of Edinburgh University was named in his honour on his retirement. He is now Emeritus Professor.
Manning was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (1973), and received an Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire in 1998. He also holds honorary doctorates from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, the University of Street Andrews, and the Open University.
Among his many posts, he has been Chairman of Edinburgh Brook Advisory Centre, Chairman of Council of the Scottish Wildlife Trust, and a trustee of the National Museums of Scotland and of Project Wallacea.
He was President of the Royal Society of Wildlife Trusts from 2005 to 2010, and is Patron of Population Matters, (formerly known as the Optimum Population Trust). He has written An Introduction to Animal Behaviour (1967) published by Cambridge University Press, which is now in its fifth edition His television broadcasts have included: British Broadcasting Corporation Two"s Earth Story, "Landscape Mysteries", and Talking Landscapes.
His radio broadcasts included The Rules of for British Broadcasting Corporation Radio 4 and the Open University in 2006.
He also broadcast five series of Radio 4"s Unearthing Mysteries, Sounds of, and Origins: the Human Connection.
