Peter M. Kappeler

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Peter M. Kappeler (born July 28, 1959 in Riedlingen ) is a German biologist, anthropologist, author, editor and professor for sociobiology / anthropology at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen .

Life

After graduating from the Otto-Hahn Gymnasium in Tuttlingen (1979), Kappeler studied biology from 1981 to 1987 at the Eberhard-Karls University in Tübingen and at Duke University . He received his PhD from Duke University in 1992 in zoology and psychology on female dominance in lemurs. From 1993 he worked as a research assistant at the German Primate Center in Göttingen and completed his habilitation in zoology at the Julius-Maximilians University of Würzburg in 1998.

In 2003, Kappeler held a professorship for behavioral ecology at the University of Leipzig before, after a joint appointment, he took over the management of the sociobiology / anthropology department at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen and the behavioral ecology & sociobiology department at the German Primate Center. Since 1993 he has also been teaching as a visiting professor at the University of Antananarivo (Madagascar).

Work (selection)

Kappeler has been researching at the field station of the German Primate Center in Forêt de Kirindy in western Madagascar since 1993. His research focuses on the evolution of social systems in primates and predators, mechanisms and consequences of sexual selection, and the relationships between sociality, cognition, health and fitness.

Kappeler was an elected member of the "Zoologie" review board of the German Research Foundation (2008-2016), a member of the IUCN / Species Survival Commission / Primate Specialist Group (since 2005) and a member of the scientific advisory board of the Nacey Maggioncalda Foundation (since 2013). He was chairman of the Society for Primatology eV (2002–2005), the European Federation for Primatology (2002–2005) and the Ethological Society eV (2013–2016).

He has published numerous scientific books and written a textbook on behavioral biology. Kappeler was involved in the first description of several primate species, including a. by Mirza zaza , Microcebus lehilahytsara , Microcebus tanosi and Microcebus marohita . He has been organizing the Göttingen Open Air Days since 1997.

Awards

Fonts

  • PM Kappeler: Behavioral Biology. 3. Edition. Springer, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-20652-8 .
  • PM Kappeler (Ed.): Animal Behavior: Evolution and Mechanisms. Springer, Heidelberg 2010, ISBN 978-3-642-02623-2 .
  • PM Kappeler: Sex roles and adult sex ratios: insights from mammalian biology and consequences for primate behavior. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B 372, 2017, p. 20160321.
  • PM Kappeler: Lemur behavior informs the evolution of social monogamy. In: Trends in Ecology and Evolution. 29, 2014, pp. 591-593.
  • PM Kappeler, Claudia Fichtel : Eco-evo-devo of the lemur syndrome: did adaptive behavioral plasticity get canalized in a large primate radiation? In: Frontiers in Zoology. 12, 2015, p. S15. doi: 10.1186 / 1742-9994-12-S1-S15
  • PM Kappeler, C. van Schaik: Evolution of primate social systems. In: International Journal of Primatology. 23, 2002, pp. 707-740.
  • PM Kappeler, L. Barrett, D. Blumstein, T. Clutton-Brock: Constraints and flexibility in mammalian social behavior: introduction and synthesis. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. B 368, 2013, p. 20120337.
  • PM Kappeler, S. Cremer, CL Nunn: Sociality and health: impacts of sociality on disease susceptibility and transmission in animal and human societies. In: Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. 370, 2015, p. 20140116.

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personal data
SURNAME Kappeler, Peter M.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German biologist, anthropologist, author
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Riedlingen