Project News

December 28
A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection

Pierrick Bourrat, PI of the “Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy” project, wrote the Open Access article “A New Set of Criteria for Units of Selection” in Biological Theory.

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December 20
Resilience of countries to COVID-19 correlated with trust

Tim Lenton, director of the Global Systems Institute and part of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to the Open Access Scientific Reports article, “Resilience of countries to COVID-19 correlated with trust.”

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December 19
On hemianopsia, vision and adaptive reactions in organism’s pathological states

Emiliano Sfara, a member of the "An Organizational Account of Ecological Functions" project, wrote "On hemianopsia, vision and adaptive reactions in organism’s pathological states" recently published in Dialectical Systems.

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December 19
Two postdoc positions - University of Toulouse

The "Toward a science of intrinsic purposiveness: open-ended evolution and organizational closure" project is currently recruiting two postdoctoral positions. Both are based at the University of Toulouse, and the application deadline for both positions is 6 January 2023.

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December 16
Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome

Phil Donoghue, PI of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to the Nature article, “Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome.”

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