Max-Planck-Institut
Contact
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
- Chemical signalling in Great Apes
- Olfaction in marmosets
- Chemical communication in meerkats
- Development of chemical sampling methods
- Development of facial similarity in rhesus macaques
- Does call structure reflect relatedness in rhesus macaques?
Personality
- Development of personality in rhesus macaques
- Personality and fitness in Sulawesi macaques
Social bonds
- Development of a dynamic sociality index
- Coalition formation and fitness in Sulawesi macaques
- Paternal effects on offspring fitness in Sulawesi and rhesus macaques
- Social causes and fitness consequences of dispersal in rhesus macaques
Reproductive success
- Variance in extra-group paternity in rhesus macaques
- Occurrence of inbreeding after extended genetic isolation
- Dynamics of reproductive skew in male rhesus macaques
- Determinants of male reproductive success when females are dominant, the case of vervet monkeys
Heritability
- Heritability of dispersal patterns in rhesus macaques
Innovation
- Evolution of Innovation across macaques
