Section for Ecology and Evolution

We address fundamental questions about the organizational principles and functional diversity of life. Major research interests – often shared between research groups – are:

• Social evolution in animal societies and cells, and regulation of social conflict
• The co-evolutionary dynamics of mutualistic & parasitic interactions
• Animal communication, emotions & social networks
• Assembly rules of ecological communities
• Conservation and invasive biology
• Biodiversity genomics
• The maintenance of genomic stability
• Impact of climate change on organismal morphology
• Why evolution has left humans vulnerable to disease