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Humans exist within a commingling network of other living organisms. What have we learned from them and what have they learned from us? Dr. Shumon T. Hussain and Dr. Dominik Ohrem highlight their research to better integrate the ways that humans and animals learn from each other and how that knowledge-sharing impacts the Earth System!

Interdisciplinary research demands extra effort, time, and communication—but it’s worth it! Dr. Isabell Schmidt outlines the challenges involved and explains why such collaboration is essential for answering questions about our deep past.

How can we actually model human migration? Max Brockmann breaks down how mathematicians can use Partial Differential Equations to model continental-scale human migrations in prehistory!

What does innovation have to do with population? And what drives innovation - hardship or abundance? Dr. Tilman Hartley explores some of the theoretical questions about how different aspects of human societies might impact innovation!

Researchers at universities rarely work with researchers in other departments - why? Dr. Elena Robakiewicz highlights the difficulties of understanding research and data in other fields and what HESCOR is doing to address data communication issues!