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Our work has both theoretical impact and informs society

THEORY: Our studies develop theory of social evolution and make precise predictions for future comparative studies.
SOCIETY: Our evolutionary and ecological understanding of the world and of human nature can help us to better understand the problems humankind is facing, for example by coming to an evolutionary understanding of chronic diseases or by understanding why humans fail to act in the crises of the Corona pandemic and global warming to act for the benefit of society, instead focusing on reducing their own costs.

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Corona, Climate Change and Evolved Human Behavior

Most scientists agree that we have to restrict climate change, but there is much frustration that we are failing. The Corona Crisis exemplified how human behavior is constrained by its evolution, cognition, and resource availability, explaining why we don’t act to avoid climate change for the benefit of future generations.
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Evolutionary Medicine

We emphasize that our human aim is not to increase evolutionary fitness but to reduce suffering and costs of public health. Thus, medical research might be most successful in diseases that have no lifetime fitness cost, as otherwise evolution would already have acted against it, which should affect the decision where to invest research . We conclude that for a comprehensive understanding of the pathophysiology of a disease, its fitness consequences and its evolutionary history should be considered.
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International Remote Seminar on Frontiers in Social Evolution (FINE)

This seminar series was started during the Corona pandemic and afterwards maintained.
Learn here how it can be used to improve teaching at university.

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long-term field studies in mammals

Among others, here we review the life-history of long-term studies.
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Global Change and Conservation of Solitary Mammals

Understanding the constraints and the adaptive value of solitary living is important to understand how solitary mammals will be affected and can respond to the different aspects of global change.
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Intra-specific variation in social organisation by genetic variation, developmental plasticity, social flexibility or entirely extrinsic factors

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  • Home
  • Research
    • Publications
    • Striped mouse
    • Bush Karoo Rat
    • Comparative Studies
    • Reviews and Society
  • Research Station
    • Namaqualand
  • People
    • Carsten Schradin
    • Neville Pillay
    • Lindelani Makuya
    • Rebecca Rimbach
    • Jingyu Qiu
    • Siyabonga Sangweni
    • All students
    • Managers, Assistants, Volunteers
  • Volunteers
  • Media
  • Support and Cooperation
  • Feel the Awe
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