The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be this coming Tuesday, November 14th. We will be reading Bamshad & Wooding (2003) “Signatures of Selection in the Human Genome.” Nature Reviews Genetics… “Signatures of Selection in the Human Genome”
The next meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Oct. 17 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will discuss John Beatty’s “Replaying Life’s Tape”.
Prof. Matthew Slater (University of Idaho) will be giving a paper to the philosophy of biology reading group on Wednesday, October 4th at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. The title of his talk is… “Why the Long Face? Biological Natural Kinds without (Many) Tears”
The next meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Sept. 26 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will discuss Losos, J. et al (1998) “Contingency and… “Contingency and Determinism in Replicated Adaptive Radiations of Island Lizards”
The first meeting of the semester for the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Tuesday Sept. 12 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge We will be reading Marshall Abrams’ “What determines biological fitness?… “What determines biological fitness? The problem of the reference environment”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be May 2 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading D. McShea and R. Brandon’s “Diversity and Complexity: the zero-force… “Diversity and Complexity: the zero-force expectation for evolution”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be April 18 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Griffiths, P.E. and Andrea Scarantino (In Press). Emotions in the… “Emotions in the Wild: The situated perspective on emotion”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Mar 21 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Joan Roughgarden et al. (2006) “Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games… “Reproductive Social Behavior: Cooperative Games to Replace Sexual Selection”
The next meeting of the Philosophy of Biology reading group will be Mar 7 at 7:30 in the Philosophy Department lounge. We will be reading Russell Powell’s “IS CONVERGENCE MORE THAN AN ANALOGY? APPEALING TO… “IS CONVERGENCE MORE THAN AN ANALOGY? APPEALING TO THE FREQUENCY OF HOMOPLASY AS EVIDENCE FOR A NON-CONTINGENTLY CONSTRAINED ADAPTATIONAL DESIGN SPACE”