Next Tuesday, February 1, 2011 we will be reading a new paper by Elliott Sober and Mike Steel: “Entropy increase and information loss in Markov models of evolution.” As always, we will meet at 7:35… “Entropy increase and information loss in Markov models of evolution”
This Tuesday, November 30, 2010 we will be reading a 2006 paper by Bruce Glymour: “Wayward Modeling: Population Genetics and Natural Selection.” As always, we will meet at 7:35 p.m. in the second floor lounge… “Wayward Modeling: Population Genetics and Natural Selection”
This week’s paper was written in order for it to be a draft of “Upper-Directed Systems: A New Approach to Teleology in Biology” by our very own Dan McShea. Please do not cite and do… “Upper-Directed Systems: A New Approach to Teleology in Biology”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, October 19th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will be… “Type-Selection versus Token-Selection”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, October 5th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will be… “Testing for treeness: lateral gene transfer, phylogenetic inference, and model selection”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, September 21st at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge located in the second floor of the West Duke building. The reading will be… “The Evolution of Eusociality”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, April 20th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge of the West Duke building. We will be continuing our theme from last week… “The Apportionment of Human Diversity”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, April 6th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge of the West Duke building. We will be reading a paper by Neven Sesardic… “Race: a social destruction of a biological concept”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, March 16th at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge of the West Duke building. We will be reading a paper by Peter Gildenhuys… “An Explication of the Causal Dimension of Drift”
The next Philosophy of Biology reading group meeting will be Tuesday, February 23rd at 7:30 p.m. in the philosophy department lounge of the West Duke building. We will be reading a paper draft by Grant… “Drift as an Individual-Level Process”