ERC Starting Grant · 2025
The impact of climate on cooperation
Understanding how cooperation evolves is a major cross-disciplinary research ambition. Recently, in biology, a new picture of cooperation has begun to come into focus, due to a series of global analyses collating decades of natural history observations across animals. Excitingly, in mammals, birds, and insects, global mapping projects have revealed that the distribution of animal cooperation is linked to climatic factors, including aridity and unpredictable rainfall. These findings have established a new frontier: to understand how cooperation evolves – and how the world’s social animals will react to climate change – we need to understand why climate matters. However, almost all work in…
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