July 28, 2011 | News

Congratulations!

MaxNetAging student Friederike Kachel was a Ph.D. Candidate in the MaxNetAging Research School (MNARS).  She received her PhD on July 25, 2011 from the University of Leipzig.

Her PhD research was about the evolution of human life history, and more specifically the postmenopausal lifespan of females. She was investigating implications of the ‘grandmother hypothesis’ using agent-based modelling. With her work she provides new insights as to which factors were crucial to the evolution of the elongated lifespan that characterizes modern humans.

Her dissertation was affiliated both with the MPIDR and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology (Department of Human Evolution) in Leipzig, Germany.