This research is focused on the Hawaiian Islands, but the issues we address are global. The cultural and biological processes that developed and interacted in Hawaii, from population growth to the increasing centralization of political power and economic control, have happened everywhere and indeed are taking place globally today.
The Hawaiian Islands are unique in the precision with which we can define the arena in which these processes play out, from the biogeochemical matrix underlying agricultural development to the nature and isolation of the founding culture. Molecular biologists describing a particular model organism (C. elegans) characterize it as possessing "the ideal compromise between complexity and tractability."
Learn more about our projects in human ecodynamics and biocomplexity in Hawaii.
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