In my latest book, Behaviour, Development and Evolution, I take a systems biology approach to understanding the evolution and development of behavior. Themes that run though the book are the…

…in ongoing coevolution of biomes (i.e., the entire complex body of living organisms including plants, animals, and microorganisms), CCE, GCC, and ENC (Box 6)     To conclude, early plant…

…living organisms are far-from-equilibrium systems relative to their surrounds, and that to preserve their out-of-equilibrium status and create order organisms must actively do work (i.e. they must engage in niche…

…you mean by these terms? What job does the MS do, and in what ways do you envisage the EES providing an alternative?   KS: Think for example of the…

In November, a colloquium of the National Academy of Sciences, entitled The Extension of Biology through Culture, celebrated a coming of age of animal social learning research. The meeting, co-organised…

…liked under the EES project.   Check out his new paper:   Developmental bias in the fossil record. [download PDF] Illiam S. C. Jackson. 2019. Evolution & Development DOI: 10.1111/ede.12312…

…them even more wonderful.   Lynn: Thank you, Thomas, for sharing these papers and insights!   Check out Thomas Oudman’s personal website: https://www.thomasoudman.com/   Read about research project 9: The…

…Ross Ashby, for whom modeling and inference were necessary attributes of living, self-organized systems enduring over time.   Put another way, organisms must increase the complementarity of the probability distribution…

…become relevant. The kinds of questions philosophers have historically asked influence what they research now. In just the same way, the modelling frameworks, benchtop tools, and model organisms of scientists…