Research Center for Integrative Evolutionary Science (RCIES) welcome graduate students who have enrolled in the Integrated Evolutionary Science Course at the National University Corporation, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), and together we engage in research in the field of evolutionary science

In April 2022, RCIES was established on the Hayama Campus. As the only research center in Japan with "evolution" at its core, the center aims to create a new academic field of "Integrated Evolutionary Science" in collaboration with domestic and overseas research institutions.

The word "evolution"" evokes the evolution of living organisms, but technology, culture, and society also evolve.

We consider evolution in such a broad sense and try to address how the system of organisms was created and changed in the 3.8 billion years-long history of life, how human activities (society, psychology, language, culture, etc.) have changed, how global problems in the Anthropocene progress, and what possible solutions can be comprehensively examined from the perspective of evolution.