The History, Philosophy and Biology Teaching Lab (LEFHBio), associated with the Institute of Biology/ Federal University of Bahia and the National Institute of Science and Technology in Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Studies in Ecology and Evolution (INCT IN-TREE), Brazil, will continue its seminar cycle on 13 September 2022 with the talk by Dr. Antoine Dussault (Collège Lionel-Groulx, Centre Interuniversitaire de recherche sur la science et la technology/CIRST and Centre de recherche en éthique/CRÉ, Canadá) addressing the following topic: “On the possibility of generalized selected effects ecological functions”.
Date and time: 13 September 2022, 10:00AM BRT (Bahia, Brazil time zone)
Zoom link: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/85200246679?pwd=cU9HQ3h0bFNmRXY2aFQxRFhJYjZuQT09
More details about the event, including an abstract and a biography of the speaker, are available here.
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