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Harvard Medical School
Project: Biomolecular condensates and the binding problem
Macquarie University
Project: Cognition all the way up?
Manchester Metropolitan University and University of Reading
Project: Mistakes in action: From the normativity of goal-directedness to novel investigations of avian nest construction
Stockholm University
Project: Predictive evo-devo: From theory to an empirical framework to model the origin of variation with implications for predicting evolution
UNC Greensboro
Project: The emergence and evolution of goal-directed behavior in collective entities
University of Bristol
Project: Direction, agency and function in the evolution of symbiotic integration
University of Calgary
Project: Using material models to investigate agency, innovation, and directionality in evolution
University of Exeter
Project: Does Earth’s habitability for life exist due to or in spite of Darwinian evolution by natural selection?
University of Guelph
Project: Transposable genetic elements as ecological agents

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