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This project investigates the evolutionary transitions of organisms, particularly focusing on fungus-growing ant societies. By integrating social evolution and metabolic ecology, it aims to understand how these ants optimize energy efficiency in their agricultural systems over time.
Over 3.5 billion years, life has evolved towards ever-greater size and complexity.
At critical transitions, this occurred when entities formed collectives (e.g. cells into multicellular bodies, individuals into eusocial societies, species into obligate mutualisms).
Towards explaining this trend, I will integrate two emerging perspectives—social evolution and metabolic ecology—using scaling laws to explore energy efficiencies gained as organisms crossed these major transitions.
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KOBENHAVNS UNIVERSITET
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