Save the dates! Starting this term, the KLI colloquium will be open to the public on select Thursdays 3PM (CET). Some of the colloquium talks will be hosted as hybrid online meetings. We will start with a book symposium on October 20th to discuss the recently published A History of Ecological Economic Thought by Marco P. Vianna Franco. On Nov 3rd, Cristina Villegas will talk about Evolutionary Propensities and their Evolution. Save the date for our senior fellow Eörs Szathmáry's talk on Nov 17th. The following week, Nov 24th, Isabella Sarto-Jackson will present her new book: The Making and Breaking of Minds. External faculty Roberto Cazzolla Gatti will present his work on the first day of Dec, followed by Orsolya Bajer-Molnár on Dec 6th. The final book symposium, Jan 19th, will feature Federica Russo's forthcoming new publication: Techno-Scientific Practices: An Informational Approach. Click to download the flyer.

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Evolutionary arguments and theories are often mobilized in other disciplines as well as in different societal contexts and discourses. These translations are challenging and require interdisciplinary and theoretical engagement at the intersection of evolutionary biology and other scientific or scholarly fields. In order to foster this engagement, the KLI is seeking 3 postdoc fellows conducting interdisciplinary evolutionary research with a focus on theoretical approaches, including conceptual, mathematical, and historical analyses.

We encourage applications from research fields such as evolutionary medicine, including evolutionary epidemiology in public health; evolutionary ecology and conservation biology; evolutionary neuroscience and psychology; and biocultural evolution. Projects may also comprise empirical work carried out with partner institutions. Furthermore, we invite projects from ethics, philosophy, history and social studies of science that engage with the epistemological and ethical issues that emerge when using evolutionary arguments and theories in contexts and discourses outside of evolutionary biology. 

The first deadline is December 15th, 2022.

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The second session of the working group “Evolutionary Theories for Social-Ecological Change” concluded after a productive week at the KLI. The goal of this visit was to bring group members together to finalize a perspective paper that explores what evolutionary theory could contribute to the field of Social-Ecological Systems thinking and to further expand on this work. Raf Jansen documented the working group's day-to-day activities in this report in pictures.

We are welcoming new postdocs, senior fellows, as well as five writing-up fellows from last year's call “Cognition and Knowledge: Between Evolution and Sustainability.” These past two weeks, we introduced David Harrison (writing-up), Corey Bunce (postdoc), Laura Menatti (postdoc), Hari Sridhar (postdoc), and Eörs Szathmáry (senior fellow) to the KLI. In two weeks, we will welcome writing-up fellows Alejandro Fábregas-Tejeda, Ilvanna Salas, Jonatan Palmblad, and Lauren Lambert.

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An interview with Richard Gawne and Ted R. Schultz digs into the origin of their open access book -The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects-  in the 38th Altenberg workshop.

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