Goodbye to Katrina
…who left on May 10 2019 to pursue a science communications career in Melbourne, Australia. Katrina was employed as the media and communications officer for the EES research grant…
read moreEvolution and ontogeny of complex group adaptation
Led by Andy Gardner Evolutionary transitions to higher-level organisation (e.g. transition from unicellular to multicellular organisms, or development of complex insect and human societies) requires complex group adaptations….
read moreUnited fronts: Unity, organization, and syntheses in the life sciences
…what does unity consist in? One way into these issues is to consider the mechanisms generating consensus. In his contribution to the workshop, Jean-Baptiste Grodwohl (with a commentary by…
read moreRapid evolution and phenotypic plasticity: insights from horned beetles
…more detail, read the paper here: Casasa S, Moczek AP. 2018. The role of ancestral phenotypic plasticity in evolutionary diversification: population density effects in horned beetles. Animal Behaviour 137:53-61. [pdf]…
read moreThe holobiont as a unit of selection
…Roughgarden J, Gilbert SF, Rosenberg E, Zilber-Rosenberg I, Lloyd EA. 2017. Holobionts as units of selection and a model of their population dynamics and evolution. Biol Theory pp 1–22. [pdf]…
read moreA philosopher’s perspective on the ‘Cause and Process in Evolution’ workshop
…understood as an extended phenotype but an evolutionary starting point. An example of this process, already studied by Darwin, is the adaptive complementarity of earthworms and soils, which results to…
read moreThe origins of organismal complexity
Led by Charlie Cornwallis & Per Lundberg This experimental project seeks to identify factors that promote the transition from single- to multi-cellularity using comparative analysis of single-celled and…
read moreWhat can horned beetles tell us about the mechanisms of plasticity and their evolution?
…recent “behind the paper” article (from the Nature Research Ecology & Evolution Community) on her new paper “What can horned beetles tell us about the mechanisms of plasticity and their…
read moreProcess and Pattern in Innovations from Cells to Societies Theme Issue
…October 2017. The issue was compiled and edited by Michael Hochberg, Pablo Marquet, Robert Boyd and Andreas Wagner. Introductory comments from the editors: Innovations are generally unexpected, often spectacular…
read moreLinking micro- and macroevolution through studies of thermal plasticity in an old insect order
…of macroevolutionary diversification. In particular, we are interested in testing three predictions/questions: 1. Does phenotypic plasticity in a trait evolve more slowly than a population mean for that trait,…
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