Our next meeting of the philosophy of biology reading group will be this Tuesday, October 18. As always, we will meet at 7:30 p.m. in the second floor lounge of the West Duke Building on East Campus.
We will discuss a paper by Wang, Young, Xue, and Günter Wagner published in Nature: “Transcriptomic analysis of avian digits reveals conserved and derived digit identities in birds.” For background, I’ve included a previous paper of Wagner’s on the same subject. The discussion should focus on the new paper and the question of whether it shows a shift from the previous paper.