Research projects
The research program comprises 22 research projects organised across four interconnected themes. The projects have been designed to produce results that will support or reject the EES claims about constructive…
read moreEvolution Driven by Organismal Behavior
…to traditional (externalist) views of evolution whereby organisms engage in an incessant, suffocating struggle in which, through selection, the properties of environments shape the properties of organisms, and where organisms…
read moreEvolution, Evolvability and Change
…seeks to bring together ideas, approaches, concepts, and perspectives from natural biological systems and other physical systems, from engineered physical and virtual systems, and from human social systems. Researchers from…
read moreResearch project 10: Host adaptation via change in its microbiome
…a system that flexibly self-assembles through reciprocal interactions between the organisms that participate in it, at multiple time scales6-8. To understand the evolutionary forces acting on these organisms we must…
read morePNAS Special Edition: Extension of Biology Through Culture
…be viewed free and a news feature provides an overview of the topic. Many of the talks can be viewed on our films page and the colloquium’s YouTube channel….
read moreSummary of our research
… Research projects The program comprises 22 research projects divided into 4 interconnected themes. Experimental and theoretical studies test EES claims by comparing and evaluating predictions from…
read moreLynn Chiu begins as media and communications officer
…power of communications to reach across disciplines and grow collaborative communities. She is the founder and co-leader of the Philosophy of Science Communication Network, a community dedicated to the scholarship,…
read moreDefining niche construction
…they can and do help scientists to communicate. Does that mean that scientists are wasting their time searching for definitions? No. Definitions fulfill an important function by guiding research programs.…
read moreUniversity of Cambridge
University of Cambridge Department of History and Philosophy of Science Free School Lane Cambridge CB2 3RE United Kingdom E. Tim Lewens T. +44 1223 334500…
read moreDoes evolution go where plasticity leads? New paper by Radersma et al. in Evo Letters.
…In a new paper in Evolution Letters, we show one way to tackle the problem. We figured that we can look for signatures of plasticity by comparing the magnitude and…
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