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This project examines how social complexity influences brain structure and function in social insects, particularly ants. It investigates the metabolic costs of brain activity in relation to collective behavior and individual cognitive abilities, aiming to understand evolutionary adaptations.
This project aims to answer a significant open question in evolutionary neurobiology: how social complexity shapes the brain structure, its associated metabolic costs, and the behavioural capability of individual members of a society.
The Social Brain Hypothesis proposes that the complexity of living in group influences encephalization in vertebrates, but this theory has not been critically tested in invertebrate species.
Social insects such as ants have miniaturized brains that nevertheless sup…
CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
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United States, Boston Ma
Type: University / higher education
Activity type: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
SME: No
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