“Here I Go Again”—will Waddington’s hopes finally be fulfilled? Part III

Question 3: Why didn’t Waddington’s attempts fix the division?   Answer 3: It’s complicated, but two factors jump out.   I devoted chapters of a book to this question, so…

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Dr Miguel Brun-Usan

…Isaac Salazar-Ciudad, after doing a master in Evolutionary Biology in the Complutense University of Madrid. Miguel’s research interests are Evolutionary-Developmental Biology (Evo-Devo), theoretical biology, complex systems and systems biology. Through…

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Kostas Kouvaris

…developmental plasticity. Kostas achieved a BSc in computational mathematics and an MSc in artificial intelligence. His research interests are in complex adaptive systems; in particular, the interplay between structure and…

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“Evolutionary Causation” (2019): Interview with co-editor Tobias Uller

…We also have chapters on the relationship between causation and information in biology and fundamental problems in philosophy of science, such as the methodology of research programs.   Each chapter…

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Synthesising Arguments and the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis

…to the excellent interdisciplinary work coming out of Ford Doolittle’s or Thomas Pradeau’s groups, the productive collaboration between Kim Sterelny and Kevin Laland, the powerful game-theoretical models of Brian Skyrms,

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Prof David Krakauer

David Krakauer is the President and William H Miller Professor of Complex Systems at the Santa Fe Institute, New Mexico, USA. A graduate of the University of London, Krakauer earned…

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How do living beings fulfil the conditions for evolution by natural selection?

…a bacterium is extraordinarily complex. Evolutionary biologists therefore need manageable representations of how organisms fulfil the Lewontin conditions. The familiar representation – the one we find in textbooks – is…

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Prof Kevin Lala (f.k.a Kevin Laland)

…learning and Cognitive Evolution, the Institute for Behavioural and Neural Sciences, and the Scottish Primate Research Group. After completing his PhD at University College London, Laland held a Human Frontier…

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