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Animal Evolutionary Ecology Lab
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A lab that explores how animal societies come about, from hermit crabs to ants.
AboutAbout the lab
How does a gathering become a society?
The Animal Evolutionary Ecology Lab studies the mechanisms by which societies arise when animals live together in groups.
The acquisition of sociality is counted as one of the seven major transitions in evolution, and elucidating its evolutionary mechanisms is an important theme in evolutionary ecology.
The lab focuses on how the properties of a group emerge from interactions between individuals.
Its research covers animals with differing degrees of sociality, from hermit crabs to ants, using methods from behavioral ecology, chemical ecology, and molecular biology.
Key terms
- Behavioral ecology
- The field that studies how animal behavior is useful in a given environment and how it has evolved
- Chemical ecology
- The field that studies interactions between living things mediated by chemical substances such as odors
- Self-organization
- The process by which order in a group arises from interactions among individuals, even without any individual directing the whole
ResearchResearch themes
In animals whose individuals of the same species live together, interactions among group members create societies at various levels. The lab investigates the interactions that are key to group formation through multifaceted approaches.
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MembersFaculty
- Associate ProfessorTomonori Kikuchi
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The top and research theme images are illustrative and were not taken at the lab. They are cropped from Wikimedia Commons images. Cropped CC BY-SA images are provided under the same CC BY-SA license as the original (version shown on each line).
- Top image: “Hermit crab with a shell on a sandy bottom at night” Dmitry Domrin / CC BY 4.0 (cropped)
- Mechanisms that give rise to animal sociality: “The lone Hymenopteran perishes, the pack survives ( )” Javier Ábalos from Valencia, España / CC BY-SA 2.0 (cropped)
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