What's NEW

2025.Apr.1[Arrival] New faculty member, Asst. Prof. Masahiro Inohana, has joined RCIES!blank
2024.Jul.28[Awarded] Ayuko KUBO won the Poster Award at the 41st JSSSCP!blank
2025.Apr.5[Seminar] Lectures will be given on May 10th at Lectures & Course guidance (Online).blank
2025.Apr.4[on TV] Prof. Terai will be appear on a NHK ETV show.blank
2025.Mar.21[Awarded] Soma TOKUNAGA (D4) won the Best Award for English Presentation Award, at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan!blank
2025.Mar.21[Awarded] Ryuichiro ISSHIKI (D1) won the Poster Award for the second time this year at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan!blank
2025.Mar.8[ Science Café ] Mar.8th (Sat), "The 8th Miura Science Cafe: "What kind of prehistoric and ancient people lived in Miura?" (in Japanese) blank
2025.Feb.12[ Article ] Assoc. Prof Ohtsuki's article "Fisher equation" was published in the March Special issue of 'Suugaku (=Mathematics) Seminar' (in Japanese) blank
2024.Dec.23[ Newspaper article ] Soma TOKUNAGA's (IES D4) research presentation on shortfin mako sharks at Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture has been reported in the Jiyu Jihou (Liverty Times Net, Taiwan) . (in Chinese) blank
2024.Oct.22[ Essay ] Prof. Yuuki Watanabe's essay on his field research in the North pole published in the monthly travel magazine "Hitotoki" November issue (WEDGE) (in Japanese) blank
2024.Oct.16[ Awarded ] Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!blank
2024.Aug.8[ Video streaming ] Prof. Y. Watanabe talks about his resarch on youtube. blank

Press Releases

  • TsutayaPR

    A new Denisovan mandible from Taiwan
    2025.Apr.11


  • NakanoOhtsukiPR

    Conditions for the establishment of a creole language theoretically revealed: when is a new language born?
    2025.Mar.26


  • Murine Face Atlas

    Developmental Atlas of Murine Face : Deciphering the Evolutionary Transition from Reptilian Jaw to Mammalian Nose
    2025.Mar.3


  • Social Stress

    Friendly but Stressed: A Novel Finding on Social Stress in Wild Japanese Macaques
    2025.Feb.25


  • Civet cat

    Heterogeneity in Host Populations Drives the Evolution of More Virulent Pathogens
    2024.Dec.20


  • Civet cat

    Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids
    2024.Nov.11


  • Atractylodes

    Novel B chromosemes with unknown function are found in the gynodioecious medicinal plant, Atractylodes lancea
    2024.Sep.13


  • Urban Squirrel

    Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years
    2024.Sep.13


  • COVIVIS_Start

    Analysis application tool that predicts the number of infected people in the catchment area on the virus concentration data in sewage
    - “COVIVIS” user acceptance begins -
    2024.Jun.21


Events

 
2025.Apr.5   Lectures by Profs. Hideyuki Tanabe & Takumi Tsutaya at Course guidance on May 10th (Sat). blank
2025.Apr.4   On Apr. 6th (Sun), Prof. Terai will appear on an NHK (ETV) TV show "Science ZERO — Latest Report: The Road Taken by the Ancient DNA of the Japanese People" (in Japanese)blank
2025.Mar.6   On Mar. 8th, The 8th Miura Science Café, co-hosted by Sokendai, will be held. "What kind of prehistoric and ancient people lived in Miura?" (free addmission. in Japanese)blank
2024.Nov.20   On Dec.9th, Assoc. Prof. Michiyo Kinoshita and Prof. Mariko Hasegawa, former president of SOKENDAI, will give lectures at NIBB symposium (in Japanese) blank
2024.Sep.27   Open Campus will be held on November 16, 2024 (in Japanese). Registration is required. blank
2024.Aug.29   Nov. 3rd (Sun, Culture Day) Academic lectures by Dr. Takumi Tsutaya & Dr. Hiroki Higashiyama.blank
2024.Aug.7   Aug.18 (Sun) Prof. Y. Watanabe will give a seminar titled, "Lives of penguins and sharks revealed by modern science" at Toyota Hands-On Museum, Aichi (in Japanese).blank
2024.Jul.25   "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.2. "Cutting-edge research on marine animals! Why do we study evolution?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.5   "youtube" Prof. Y. Watanabe appears on youtube, Pt.1. "Global warming in reality! What is polar research?" (in Japanese, subtitles available)blank
2024.Jul.24   Aug 21st(Wed) - Aug 24th (Sat): "SESJ2024" The 26th Annual Meeting of the Society for Evolutionary Studies, Japan will be held at Tokai University Shonan Campus (Aug 21st to 23rd) and Kanagawa Prefectural Museum of Natural History (Aug 24th). blank
2024.Feb.24   Lecture Video now available; "What do butterflies "see"?" by Prof. Kentaro Arikawa in "JT Biohistory Research Hall event-Lecture” on Feb 17th, 2024 (in Japanese). blank
 

Recent Publications

2025.Mar.28   Many-strategy games in groups with relatives and the evolution of coordinated cooperation.
Kristensen NP, Chisholm RA, Ohtsuki H
J. Theor. Biol. (2025) 605 112089     DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112089blank
2025.Mar.18   Conditions for the establishment of creole languages from an evolutionary game theoretic perspective.
Nakano R, Ohtsuki H
J. Theor. Biol. (2025) 605 112090     DOI:10.1016/j.jtbi.2025.112090blank
2025.Feb.28   On the Maxillofacial Development of Mice, Mus musculus.
Higashiyama H, Kuroda S, Iwase A, Irie N, Kurihara H
J. Morphol. (2025) 286(3) e70032     DOI:full10.1002/jmor.70032blank
2025.Feb.20   Influence of proximate individuals on self-scratching behaviour in wild Japanese macaques.
Sekizawa M, Kutsukake N
Animal Behaviour (2025) 222     DOI:10.1016/j.anbehav.2025.123111blank
2024.Dec.19   Metapopulation heterogeneities in host mobility, productivity, and immunocompetency always increase virulence and infectiousness.
Sato M, Dieckmann U, Sasaki A
PNAS (2024) 121(52) e2309272121    DOI:10.1073/pnas.2309272121blank
2024.Oct.2   Dietary partitioning in sympatric Paradoxurinae civets in Borneo suggested by compound-specific nitrogen isotope analysis of amino acids.
Nakabayashi M, Tsutaya T, Abdul H Ahmad, Sasaki Y, Ogawa NO, Ishikawa NF, Ohkouchi N
Progress in Earth and Planetary Science (2024) 11:53     DOI:10.1186/s40645-024-00655-6blank
2024.Sep.11   B chromosome and its non-Mendelian inheritance in Atractylodes lancea.
Hara K, Kikuchi S, Inoue M, Tsusaka T, Sakurai M, Tanabe H, Shirasawa K, Isobe S
PLOS ONE (2024)     DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0308881blank
2024.Aug.13   Urbanisation has impacted the population genetic structure of the Eurasian red squirrel in Japan within a short period of 30 years.
Takahata Y, Uchida K, Kutsukake N, Shimamoto T, Asari Y, Terai Y
Conservation Genetics (2024)     DOI:10.1007/s10592-024-01631-9blank
2024.Aug.1   Deep Learning-Aided Research and the Aim-of-Science Controversy.
Onishi Y
J Gen Philos Sci (2024)     DOI:10.1007/s10838-023-09667-0blank
2024.May.28   Who is a Leader in the Leading Eight? Indirect Reciprocity under Private Assessment.
Fujimoto Y, Ohtsuki H
PRX Life (2024) 2, 023009     DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162blank
2024.May.24   Severe Bottleneck Impacted the Genomic Structure of Egg-Eating Cichlids in Lake Victoria.
Imamoto M, Nakamura H, Aibara M, Hatashima R, Kimirei IA, Kashindye BB, Itoh T, Nikaido M
Molecular Biology and Evolution (2024) 41(6):June 24, msae093     DOI:10.1093/molbev/msae093blank
2024.May.4   East and Southeast Asian hominin dispersal and evolution: A review.
Sawafuji R, Tsutaya T, Takahata N, Pedersen MW, Ishida H
Quaternary Science Reviews (2024) 333:1 June 2024, 108669     DOI:10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108669blank
2024.Apr.15   Interactive parallel sex pheromone circuits that promote and suppress courtship behaviors in the cockroach.
Tateishi K, Watanabe T, Domae M, Ugagin A, Nishino H, Nakagawa H, Mizunami M, Watanabe H
PNAS nexus (2024) 3(4):April 2024, pgae162     DOI:10.1093/pnasnexus/pgae162blank
 

Recruitment

We currently have no updates regarding recruitment information.

Awards, articles, etc.

2024.Jul.28Ayuko KUBO (ESB, Tsutaya Lab.) won the Poster Award at the 41st Conference of the Japan Society for Scientific Studies on Cultural Properties (JSSSCP)"
2025.Mar.21Soma TOKUNAGA (ESB D4) won the Best Award for Oral English Presentation Award, at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan on "Extraordinary thermoregulation abilities of shortfin mako sharks as the key adaptive significance of regional endothermy in fishes"blank
2025.Mar.21Ryuichiro ISSHIKI (IES D1) won the Poster Award for a poster presentation entitled "Can Female Choice Hypothesis Explain the Evolution of Lek?" at the 72nd Ecological Society of Japan. blank
2024.Feb.23An article about Assoc. Prof. Yohey Terai has published in Tokyo shimbun(e-edtion blank & in print)
2025.Feb.12An article "Fisher equation" by Assoc. Prof. Hisashi Ohtsuki was published in 'Suugaku (=Mathematics) Seminar' (in Japanese)blank
2024.Dec.23An article about Assoc. Prof. Yohey Terai has published in NIKKEI(e-edtion on Jan.18blank & in print on Jan 19)
2024.Dec.23Soma Tokunaga's (IES, D4) research presentation on shortfin mako sharks at Taiwan's Ministry of Agriculture has been reported in Taiwanese newspaper, Liverty Times Net (e-editionblank & in print)
2024.Nov.23An article about Prof. Innan's research has published in NIKKEI(e-editionblank on Nov.23 & in print on Nov. 24)
2024.Oct.16Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the prize "Anthropological Science Acievement Award for Young Investigators"!blank
2024.Sep.24Ryuichiro Issiki (IES, D1) in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 4th Summer School for Theoretical Biology for his presentation on "A Theoretical Study on Female Preference Hypothesis in Lek Mating Systems".blank
2024.Sep.24Shun Minami (IES, D1) in Integrative Evolutionary Science won the Poster Award at the 2024 Annual Meeting of the Japan Society for Mathematical Biology for his presentation on "New Red Queen Dynamics in Fungus-Virus Interaction".blank
2024.Sep.12Prof. Yoko Satta received the Kihara Award 2024 from the Genetics Society of Japan for “Data Driven Science in Evolutionary Genetics”.blank
2024.Aug.30Articles about Prof. Hongo's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.8.28), and in print (2024.8.29) (in Japanese)blank. In the article, the new academic field “Integrated Evolutionary Science” by RCIES was also introduced.
2024.Aug.7Articles about Prof. Terai's research has published in Nikkei digital online (2024.3.24, in Japanese)blank, Science Japan (2024.5.23, JST, cited from Science News)blank, Nikkei Science (Special Edition, vol.269, 2024.6.29, reprinted of Nikkei Science (2024.Feb. Special Edition)), The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.7 E-version)blank, and The Sankei Shimbun (2024.7.21, in print)
2024.Aug.7'COVIVIS' by Prof. Sasaki's research has published in Science News (2024.7.19, in print) (Jump to SOKENDAI's page)blank
2024.Apr.20Two articles about Prof. Terai’s research has published in The Science News (2024.Mar.29, Paper), JKC Gazette (2024, May). (in Japanese)blank
2024.Apr.9Asst.Prof. Takumi Tsutaya received the Young Scientist Award from the Minister of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology (in Japanese)blank