Profile
Zachar, István, PhD
Researcher
Senior research fellow
Contact:
zachar.istvan@ecolres.hu
+36 30 496 0779
origin of eukaryotes, origin of mitochondria and the nucleus, honest signalling, animal signalling, cultural evolution, modelling ecological and evolutionary dynamics, major evolutionary transitions
Origin of eukaryotes and mitochondria – Prebiotics – Evolution – Major Evolutionary Transitions – Cultural Evolution
Eukaryotic origin: origin of eukaryotic complexity, origin of mitochondria and nucleogenesis; Major Evolutionary Transitions;
Culture: origin and early evolution of the human language, cultural evolution, origin and evolution syntax and grammar;
Prebiotics: origin of life, early template evolution and coexistence; origin of protocells
Selected publications
Zachar, István; Szilágyi, András; Számadó, Szabolcs; Szathmáry, Eörs. Farming the mitochondrial ancestor as a model of endosymbiotic establishment by natural selection PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. 115: E1504-E1510
2018
Boza G.; Barabás G.; Scheuring I.; Zachar I. Eco-evolutionary modelling of microbial syntrophy indicates the robustness of cross-feeding over cross-facilitation SCIENTIFIC REPORTS, 13 : 1 Paper: 907 (2023)
2023
István, Zachar; Gergely, Boza. The Evolution of Microbial Facilitation: Sociogenesis, Symbiogenesis, and Transition in Individuality FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND EVOLUTION. 10: 1-20
2022
Oszoli István; Zachar István. Group-selection via aggregative propagule-formation enables cooperative multicellularity in an individual based, spatial model PLOS COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY, 20 : 5. Paper: e1012107 (2024)
2024
Szabolcs Számadó; István Zachar; Dániel Czégel; Dustin J. Penn. Honesty in signalling games is maintained by trade-offs rather than costs BMC BIOLOGY 21:4.
2023
Zachar, István Eukaryotic origins: Closing the energetics gap. NATURE ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION, 6:1254-1255
2022
