Peeter Hõrak to present at Animal Ecology seminar

On Wednesday, March 11, at 16:00 the Chair of Animal Ecology of the Institute of Ecology and Earth Sciences will hold a seminar, where Peeter Hõrak, Professor of Behavioural Ecology, will give a talk titled „Natural selection on phenotypes of Estonians”. The seminar will take place at Oecologicum (J. Liivi 2), room 126.

Professor Hõrak’s presentation is based on anthropometric data collected by Juhan Aul, and datasets from the Estonian Biobank and Population Register. The talk addresses questions like how education mediates natural selection on anthropometric traits, what prevents Estonian men from evolving to be larger and smarter, and whether pace-of-life-syndrome hypothesis is applicable to humans. The seminar will also cover how anthropometric traits of children predict the longevity of their parents, and whether children are bad for health.