United fronts: Unity, organization, and syntheses in the life sciences
…theoretical incommensurability can be misleading. Though cancer scientists and philosophers sometimes treat different approaches to understanding cancer as competing theoretical positions, Plutynski showed how this move obscures the complementarity of…
read moreThe Evolution of Robustness
…cases from simple, local interactions between cells and molecular components. Cellular automata are computational models that abstract the idea of simple local interactions, and are used to understand how such…
read moreA/Prof Richard Watson
…in evolution. A postdoctoral position at Harvard University’s Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology provided training to complement his computer science background. He now has over 50 journal and conference…
read moreEpigenetic inheritance in evolution: an interview with Eva Jablonka
…most prominent longstanding champion of the importance of epigenetic inheritance in evolution and has published many papers and books on the topic. Katrina Falkenberg is the science communication and outreach…
read moreConditional gene expression, developmental plasticity, and the diversification of horned beetles
…expressed genes) compared with randomly selected genes. Indeed, this was the case with very high statistical significance in all three comparisons (false discovery rate (FDR) of P < 10-10). …
read moreWhy do we need an EES?
…equilibria, developmental bias) We are not witnessing a revolution, but rather a complex process of sophistication and complexification of the central idea of biology, an idea that can still,…
read moreConference on Complex Systems 2018
23-28 September 2018 The Complex Systems Society presents their 2018 conference in Thessaloniki, Greece. There are 27 satellite meetings covering a large range of topics within the study of…
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 moreIntroducing EES Update
…Extended Evolutionary Synthesis project: Website: ees.dreamhosters.com Blog: ees.dreamhosters.com/category/blog Twitter: @EES_Update Facebook: EES Update Our objective is to provide a service to evolutionary biology and neighboring fields with helpful…
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…
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