Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP150102900
Funding Status
Closed
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Funded Activity Summary
Female multiple mating and the evolutionary origins of complex societies. This project plans to connect micro-evolutionary processes with macro-evolutionary change to provide a unified understanding of why animals live together. Evolutionary transitions to and from complex social behaviour appear linked to female multiple mating (polyandry). However, the causal pathway by which variation in polyandry results in the emergence and diversification of sociality is yet to be established. Using a vertebrate system we aim to integrate empirical, theoretical and comparative approaches to show: the ecological causes of individual variation in female polyandry; its effect on social behaviours that promote social complexity at the population level; and how this corresponds to divergence in social complexity across species.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 05-2015
End Date: 12-2017
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $334,200.00
Funder: Australian Research Council
Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Ethology and Sociobiology | Ecology | Behavioural Ecology
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity at Regional or Larger Scales |
