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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

Current projects

Multimodal communication

  1. Chemical signalling in Great Apes
  2. Olfaction in marmosets
  3. Chemical communication in meerkats
  4. Development of chemical sampling methods
  5. Development of facial similarity in rhesus macaques
  6. Does call structure reflect relatedness in rhesus macaques?

Personality

  1. Development of personality in rhesus macaques
  2. Personality and fitness in Sulawesi macaques

Social bonds

  1. Development of a dynamic sociality index
  2. Coalition formation and fitness in Sulawesi macaques
  3. Paternal effects on offspring fitness in Sulawesi and rhesus macaques
  4. Social causes and fitness consequences of dispersal in rhesus macaques

Reproductive success

  1. Variance in extra-group paternity in rhesus macaques
  2. Occurrence of inbreeding after extended genetic isolation
  3. Dynamics of reproductive skew in male rhesus macaques
  4. Determinants of male reproductive success when females are dominant, the case of vervet monkeys

Heritability

  1. Heritability of dispersal patterns in rhesus macaques

Innovation

  1. Evolution of Innovation across macaques