This key research area focuses on biocultural evolutionary dynamics within the Homo genus, including humanity’s key role in the Anthropocene, by studying the biology and behaviour of human beings in a broad context. This approach includes both theoretical and empirical examinations of how environmental changes as well as socio-cultural and technological transitions have influenced, and will continue to influence, the biology, biography, and health of human beings and other organisms. This research comprises, for instance, the evolutionary interrelations of genes and culture, with the inclusion of palaeoanthropological and archaeological data, and using genomic, medical, demographic, behaviour-related and socioeconomic sources.