Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1094295

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1094295

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

To be cooperative or selfish: individual decisions in a model society. Understanding the basis of cooperative behaviour is a major challenge to biological and social science. Our ability to deal with problems such as global warming and the rapid loss of biodiversity, will depend upon an unprecedented level of cooperation between individuals and countries. Our work will use an animal model that shares a number of key characteristics with the societies of our early human ancestors to explore, through experiments and detailed molecular analysis, the basis of cooperative interactions between individuals. This work will uncover the key principles that drive the evolution of cooperation in society and will help us to understand the basis of one the most important components of human nature.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 01-01-2010

End Date: 31-07-2013

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $298,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Population And Ecological Genetics | Genetics

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Studies in human society | Biological sciences |

Other Keywords

Behavioural and cognitive sciences | Biological sciences | Genetics | Life Histories (Incl. Population Ecology) | Population And Ecological Genetics | Sociobiology And Behavioural Ecology | Studies in human society

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