Project News

December 7
Do Clay Crystals and Rocks Have Functions? Selected Effects Functions, the Service Criterion, and the Twofold Character of Function

Antoine Dussault, part of the "Geofunctions: purposes and agents in global environmental sciences" project, wrote the "Do Clay Crystals and Rocks Have Functions? Selected Effects Functions, the Service Criterion, and the Twofold Character of Function" chapter in Functions: From Organisms to Artefacts.

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December 5
Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation

Graham Shields, part of the “Chance versus purpose in the evolution of biospheres” project, contributed to the Open Access Science Advances article, “Biological diversification linked to environmental stabilization following the Sturtian Snowball glaciation.”

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December 4
Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously

David Ludwig, Paride Bollettin and Charbel El-Hani, part of the "An organizational account of ecological functions" project, contributed to the Ecology and Society article, "Taking fishers’ knowledge and its implications to fisheries policy seriously."

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December 1
Modelling spatial constraints and scaling effects of catalyst phase separation on linear pathway kinetics

Kepa Ruiz-Mirazo, part of the "Integration and individuation in the origin of agency" project, contributed to the Statistical Mechanics article, "Modelling spatial constraints and scaling effects of catalyst phase separation on linear pathway kinetics."

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November 30
An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classification

Thomas Reydon, PI of the "Agency and explanation in the evolutionary sciences" project, contributed to the Open Access Biology & Philosophy article, "An oak is an oak, or not? Understanding and dealing with confusion and disagreement in biological classification."

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