Bridge professorship

between
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology & University of Leipzig

Prof. Dr. Anja Widdig

e-mail: anja_widdig@[>>> Please remove the brackets! <<<]eva.mpg.de
phone.: ++49 (0)341 9736 707

Research Interest

We are primarily interested in the interplay between behavior, ecology, genetics and fitness which we study at various levels as indicated in the graph below:

Dynamics
of social bonds
Multimodal communication
Cooperation
& Competition
Personality
Plasticity
& Innovation

Relatedness
& Kinship
Heritability
Genetic diversity
Gene regulation

Social environment
Environmental variation
Climate change
Human influence
Chemical ecology

Reproductive success
Inclusive fitness
Reproductive skew
Survival
Health, Parasites & Stress