The evolution of transgenerational effects

TRANSGEN is an EPSRC-funded Maths of Life consortium comprising researchers from the University of Cambridge, the University of Surrey, University College London and the University of Exeter. The interdisciplinary team is working on a diverse research agenda.

We aim to use novel life-history models to explain the diversity of trans-generational effects among species in a changing world.

We hypothesise that trans-generational effects are an adaptive consequence of evolved life-history strategies, and therefore we can predict the ecological conditions under which they arise.