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Funding Highlights 2013-2022
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Funding Opportunities
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Our grants and programmes aim to provide opportunities that drive inclusivity and turn shared wisdom into real-world solutions for all.
Our research projects are taking Palaeoscience into the future. Will you help us go further?
GENUS Palaeoscientists are working on a number of exciting projects across a diverse range of disciplines.

Evolutionary Processes
This theme focuses on the southern African palaeobiodiversity; studying the timing of evolutionary events in major clades and significant climatic events; characterising the global geographic distribution of fossil taxa; investigating the nature of functional morphology and critical innovations in morphological evolution.

Cultural & Behavioural Evolution
This theme explains the key long-term material culture and behavioural transitions in hominin behaviour and how they led to modern human behaviour.

Palaeo-environments & Palaeoclimates
Earth systems change dynamically, and when stretched beyond certain thresholds, lead to changes (and potentially collapses) in ecosystems and biodiversity. This theme uncovers the variability in the resilience of past ecosystems to fluxes through space and time.

Innovation
This theme focuses on applying technologies to maximise the use of heritage objects through expanded efforts to discover, conserve, augment, and study them. Of vital importance is pursuing new, innovative means of information extraction and analysis.
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