The evolution and development of cooperation in mammalian societies

Project Information

THCB2011

Grant agreement ID: 294494

Project closed

Start date 1 July 2012

End date 30 June 2018

Funded under

• Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Total cost € 2 497 442,80

EU contribution € 2 497 442,80

Coordinated by

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
United Kingdom

Objective

The aim of this project is to understand the distribution and evolution of cooperative behaviour and social organisation in mammals. One component of the project will focus on interspecific differences and will use a recently developed, gene-based phylogeny to reconstruct the evolution of social organisation and cooperative behaviour while a second will use detailed studies of two mammals where cooperation is highly developed (Kalahari meerkats and Damaraland mole-rats) to investigate the causes and consequences of individual differences in cooperative behaviour and the mechanisms that affect them. The project will provide insight into the evolution of animal societies and the origins of human social behaviour.

Fields of science

• natural sciences › biological sciences › biological morphology › comparative morphology
• natural sciences › biological sciences › zoology › mammalogy

Programme(s)

• FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific programme: "Ideas" implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for research, technological development and demonstration activities (2007 to 2013)

Topic(s)

• ERC-AG-LS8 - ERC Advanced Grant - Evolutionary, population and environmental biology

Call for proposal

ERC-2011-ADG_20110310
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Funding Scheme

ERC-AG - ERC Advanced Grant

Host institution

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

Principal investigator

Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (Prof.)

Administrative Contact

Renata Schaeffer (Ms.)

• EU contribution: € 2 497 442,80
• Address: TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS ; CB2 1TN Cambridge ; United Kingdom
• Region: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data

Beneficiaries (1)

THE CHANCELLOR MASTERS AND SCHOLARS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE

United Kingdom

Principal investigator

Timothy Hugh Clutton-Brock (Prof.)

Administrative Contact

Renata Schaeffer (Ms.)

• EU contribution: € 2 497 442,80
• Address: TRINITY LANE THE OLD SCHOOLS ; CB2 1TN Cambridge
• Region: East of England › East Anglia › Cambridgeshire CC
• Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Total cost: No data