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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/DP180102615
Funding Status
Active
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Funded Activity Summary
Plasticity and the origins of family. This project aims to answer the question of how family life evolved. Humans and many animals live in stable family groups because of the benefits of cooperation. Surprisingly, we have a very poor understanding of how family living initially evolved. This project will experimentally determine how simple responses to environmental change have driven the evolution of family living and thereby refine theories for understanding social evolution more generally. This information will be useful to environmental policy makers that need to consider the role of environmental change in managing and conserving viable populations.Funded Activity Details
Start Date: 06-2018
End Date: 12-2023
Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects
Funding Amount: $300,985.00
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 |
