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Human evolution is a field of biolgical research concerned with the origin of humans. Homo sapiens and its ancestors are at the core but comparative analyses also include great apes, other primates, and mammals. Human Evolution is part of the discipline "physical anthropology" and requires a multidisciplinary approach involving evolutionary biology, primatology, genetics, paleoecology, geology, mathematics, linguistics, and others. The research at our department comprises: |
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We would like to achieve a comprehensive process based on
integrative questions involving multiple values, scales, tenures,
uses, and needs. We therefore refer to interdisciplinarity in more than a serial way concerning on the one hand the scientific research process itself and the involvement of scientists as citizens and citizens as scientists. Our research includes: |
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In the field of Social Anthropology we analyse the impact of
socio-cultural, economic and ecological factors on biological variation
in humans. In particular proximate determinants of these linkages and
their long term significance for growth and development, life history,
reproduction, nutrition, body composition, ageing, health and disease
and mortality are focused on. Investigations consider recent as well as
historical populations. Current projects include: |
Human Behaviour Research is a field of biological research concerned
with the analysis of human behavior from an evolutionary point of view
— the application of the principles of evolutionary theory to the study
of human behavioral diversity. The design of traits, behaviors, and
perceptions are examined as functional products of natural or sexual
selection. On this basis, we attempt to explain human behavior as an
adaptive solution to ecological and social constraints such as the
competing life-history demands of development, mate acquisition,
reproduction, parental care. Our research is conducted at the and at the intersection to anthropometry in |
The feeding biomechanics and dietary ecology of Australopithecus africanus
Talks regarding the morphometrics appointment
A reconstruction of the Vienna skull of Hadropithecus stenognathus