EES Workshop 1: Cause and process in evolution
…in terms of interpretation and communication of results. Twitter #CAPIE2017 Blog posts by Wim Hordijk, Jan Baedke and Massimo Pigliucci KLI event webpage and photo gallery Location: KLI,…
read moreProf William Cresko
…variation in the Order Gasterosteiformes, a lineage that comprises stickleback, pipefish and seahorses. His research group conducts molecular genetic and developmental studies on variation in bone and cartilage structures, in…
read moreDiverse Intelligences Summer Institute
29 July – 12 August 2018 The Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute will build a community of early career scholars dedicated to actively breaking down transdisciplinary boundaries in investigating the…
read moreProf Per Lundberg
Per Lundberg, Professor of Evolutionary Ecology at Lund University, Sweden, studies the evolutionary ecology of natural communities. The interplay between current ecological processes, such as species sorting and community assembly,…
read moreGlossary
…accommodation’ that occurs when natural selection causes environmentally induced (i.e. plastic) phenotypes to lose their environmental sensitivity over evolutionary time. Heredity: all causal mechanisms by which offspring come to…
read moreEcosystem networks and system-level functions
…important for the stability and diversity of ecosystems. We are using connectionist learning theory to investigate the reciprocal interaction between the evolution of an ecological community and the non-living components…
read moreSonia Sultan joins EES project
Sonia E. Sultan is a plant evolutionary ecologist and Professor of Biology at Wesleyan University. Her research group studies ecological development or ‘eco-devo’: how individual plants develop and function…
read moreProf Tim Lewens
Tim Lewens is a Professor of Philosophy of Science in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Clare College. His primary research…
read moreProf Matthew Holden
…a broad range of bacterial genomes, Holden moved to the School of Medicine, University of St Andrews where he established a pathogenomics group. Research in his group is directed at…
read moreProf Massimo Pigliucci
…in Evolutionary Biology from the University of Connecticut and a PhD in Philosophy from the University of Tennessee. He has done post-doctoral research in evolutionary ecology at Brown University. His…
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