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Köhler, Meike

ICREA Research Professor at ICP (Institut Català de Paleontologia). Life & Medical Sciences

EDUCATION:
1982 MSc of Sciences (Diplom), University of Hamburg, Germany
1988 Ph.D. Vertebrate Paleontology, University of Hamburg, Germany

Positions:
2006-current ICREA Research Professor, Institut Català de Paleontologia, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
2000–2006 Researcher at the Institut de Paleontología Miquel Crusafont

Publications:
in journals such as: Science, Nature, Trends in Ecology and Evolution (TREE), Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences USA (PNAS), Current Biology, Journal of Human Evolution (JHE), American Journal of Physical Anthropology (AJPA), Brain Behavior and Evolution (BBE)



Research Interests

Paleobiology
Evolutionary Biology
Paleoanthropology
I am especially interested in

- Life history evolution
- Evolution of body size
- Trends and rules in evolution
- Insularity and evolution in resource-limited
environments
- Evolution of brain and nervous system
- Functional morphology and biomechanics

 


KeyWords

life history, body size, energy, histology, mammals
 


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