The role of individual internal states in niche choice, niche construction and behavioural niche conformance (D01)

• Subject Area: Theoretical Philosophy ; Bioinformatics and Theoretical Biology
• Term: since 2018
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 316099922

Project D01 aims at understanding possible fitness effects of internal states of individuals. In a first step, it scrutinises the functional roles of internal states in behavioural decisions, and in a second step the relevance of individual differences in internal states, and thus in behavioural decisions, for the evolutionary outcome of the mechanisms of niche choice, niche conformance and niche construction. The project will draw on the debate in analytical philosophy about internal states.

• DFG Programme: CRC/Transregios
• Subproject of: TRR 212: A Novel Synthesis of Individualisation across Behaviour, Ecology and Evolution: Niche Choice, Niche Conformance, Niche Construction (NC3)
• Applicant Institution: Universität Bielefeld
• Project Head: Professor Dr. Ulrich Krohs