Research Directory

Projects

Areas of interest

This directory lists people and organizations involved in a variety of areas of research of interest to the consortium.

Alan Love

Institution:

University of Minnesota

Project or lab website: https://sites.google.com/umn.edu/alan-c-love/home

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Function and Teleology, Genomics, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism

Omer Markovitch

Institution:

Centro de Química Estrutural (CQE),

Instituto Superior Técnico (IST),

University of Lisbon,

Portugal

Project or lab website: https://sites.google.com/site/omermar/home

Areas of interest: Causation in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Education / Outreach, Transitions in Agency/Individuality

Dan McShea

Institution:

Department of Biology
Duke University

Project or lab website: https://scholars.duke.edu/person/dmcshea

Areas of interest: Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Directionality in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Formal models of agency and cooperation, Function and Teleology, History of Life and the Fossil Record, Mechanism, Vitalism and Organicism, Transitions in Agency/Individuality

Lisandro Milocco

Institution:

Stockholm University

Consortium project title: Predictive evo-devo: From theory to an empirical framework to model the origin of variation with implications for predicting evolution

Project or lab website: https://lisandromilocco.github.io/

Sonia Sultan

Institution:

Department of Biology
Wesleyan University

Project or lab website: https://sultanlab.research.wesleyan.edu/

Areas of interest: Adaptation and Adaptationism, Agency and Autonomy, Causation in Development and Evolution, Ecology and Earth System Science, Genomics

S. Joshua Swamidass

Institution:

Department of Pathology and Immunology
Washington University-St. Louis

Project or lab website: https://pathology.wustl.edu/people/s-joshua-swamidass-md-phd/)

C. Kenneth Waters

Institution:

Department of Philosophy, University of Calgary

Consortium project title: Using material models to investigate agency, innovation, and directionality in evolution

Project or lab website: http://www.ckennethwaters.com

Tom Williams

Institution:

University of Bristol