Project News

April 19
Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist

Members of the “Mistakes in living systems: a new conceptual framework” team wrote “Biological Mistakes: What They Are and What They Mean for the Experimental Biologist” in The British Journal for the Philosophy of Science.

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April 19
Constraining Whole-Genome Duplication Events in Geological Time

Phil Donoghue, PI of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, co-wrote the Polyploidy chapter, “Constraining Whole-Genome Duplication Events in Geological Time.”

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April 18
Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas arises from a tuned adaptive photoresponse shared with multicellular Volvocine green algae

Ray Goldstein, PI of the “Physical aspects of early multicellular development” project, contributed to the Physical Review E article, “Phototaxis of Chlamydomonas arises from a tuned adaptive photoresponse shared with multicellular Volvocine green algae.”

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April 14
Consensus and Scientific Classification

Beckett Sterner, PI of the “New Tests of Directionality in Fossil Lineages” project, contributed to the Knowledge Organization article, “Consensus and Scientific Classification.”

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April 12
Five lessons from teleology-neutrality and metaphor in ecology: bottom-up and top-down all at once

Justin Donhauser, part of the “Geofunctions: Purposes and Agents in Global Environmental Sciences” project, wrote the Synthese article, “Five lessons from teleology-neutrality and metaphor in ecology: bottom-up and top-down all at once.”

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