Project 4
Evolutionary diversification

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1. Conceptual issues
   • The EES in historical focus
   • The EES in philosophical focus
 
2. Evolutionary innovations
   • How evolution learns from experience
   • Developmental bias and the origin of adaptive variation
   • The role of developmental plasticity in innovation and diversification of Onthophagus beetles
   • Evolution and ontogeny of complex group adaptation
   • The origins of organismal complexity
   • Plasticity and house building in social insects
 
3. Inclusive inheritance
   • The evolution of inclusive heredity through the genomic interactions of symbionts
   • Adaptation through genes without change to the genome: host adaptation via change in its microbiome composition
   • Evolution of extra-genetic inheritance: a life-cycle perspective
   • Extra-genetic inheritance and adaptation to novel environments
   • Adaptation through niche construction and microbiome function in Onthophagus beetles
 
4. Evolutionary diversification
   • An experimental test of plasticity-led evolution
   • Plasticity and adaptive radiation in Anolis lizards
   • Phenotypic plasticity, developmental bias and evolutionary diversification in butterflies
   • Plasticity as a bridge between micro- and macroevolution
   • Adaptive trends and parallel evolution generated by niche construction
   • Niche construction, plasticity and the diversity of coral reef fauna
   • Niche construction and evolutionary diversity in experimental marine microbial communities
   • Macro-evolutionary dynamics of niche construction
   • Ecosystem networks and system-level functions