Cluster:
Evolutionary Origins and Transitions of Agency
Project:
Features of autonomy in human evolution
Institution:
Benjamin Bembé was born in 1972 in Munich, Germany. He studied biology and geography in Munich. His doctoral thesis he wrote 2000-2004 on the Zoological State Collection Munich on Orchid Bees of South America. From 2002-2018 he worked as an highschool teacher in the subjects of biology and geography. Since 2018 he is working as a researcher in the Institute of Evolutionary Biology and Morphology, Witten/Herdecke University. Special interests are the systematics and organization of insects, features of human evolution and cultural products, and issues of didactics in biology teaching. Numerous trips took him to countries in South and Central America, to Namibia, Borneo and to Egypt.