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2024-02-22
New Paper: Inter- and transdisciplinary reasoning for action: the case of an arts–sciences–humanities intervention on climate change
How do participants in arts–science collaborations reason together to overcome disciplinary boundaries and to co-create interventions?
This article by Luana Poliseli and Guido Caniglia chronicles how inter- and transdisciplinary reasoning unfolded in such a collaborative project involving experts from the natural sciences, humanities, and the arts. It appears that embracing of differences rather than seeking consensus among diverse perspectives allows inter- and transdisciplinary reasoning to help navigate unpredictable situations effectively by capitalising on and leveraging differences.
(Click on the title to read a summary article of this new paper!)
2023-06-22
New paper: How hypotheses evolved into facts - through mis-citation
New paper by Hari Sridhar and Priti Bangal revisits the ‘nuclear species’ concept, finding frequent mis-citations of core ideas.
2024-02-09
New Paper: Association of personality traits and socio-environmental factors with COVID-19 pandemic-related conspiratorial thinking in the D-A-CH region
What has Conspiracy Theories got to do with individual personality traits and socio-environmental factors?? Quite a lot actually, according to a new multi-author paper including Guido Caniglia, published in SN Social Sciences. (Click on title to read more…)
2023-11-20
New paper: A new concept for social-ecological niche construction and its sustainability
A new article co-authored by Guido Caniglia combines niche construction theory with social-ecological systems science to better understand the relationships between sociocultural and environmental co-evolutionary processes that have led to the current planetary crisis.
2022-02-15
New paper on imperialist appropriation in the world economy
Co-authored by KLI fellow Christian Dorninger, their new paper shows that rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South.
2021-09-01
New Oxford Bibliography entry on Evolutionary Developmental Biology
Gerd B. Müller and Ehab Abouheif's new entry on evo-devo offers an introduction to characteristic themes and highlights selected papers that address crucial conceptual aspects.
2021-03-01
New morphometric methods to break down organismal shape into adaptive and neutrally evolving components improve phylogenetic reconstruction
A group around KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra and Philipp Mitteroecker developed new methods to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships from morphology.
2019-01-31
New KLI Fellow Gregory RUPIK
We welcome our new writing-up fellow Gregory RUPIK (University of Toronto) who will work on the project "Organismal Agency in Romantic Biology and Today."
2019-02-14
New KLI Fellow Alice LACINY
We welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Alice LACINY who will work on the project "Eco-Evo-Devo in Action: Parasite-Induced Morphologies in Ants."
2019-03-07
New junior visiting fellow Lorenzo DEL SAVIO (University of Munich)
We welcome Lorenzo DEL SAVIO (University of Munich) to the KLI who will work on his project "Are Humans Self-domesticated Animals?"
2018-02-13
New Issue of Biological Theory (including Thematic Section on `Function and Malfunction´)
Biological Theory Issue 13:1 is online now. Enjoy the introduction to the thematic section / guest editorial ...
2023-11-01
New interdisciplinary project: Climate adaption strategies across the EU horizon
Several KLI fellows have come together in summer 2023 to work on an interdisciplinary project on climate adaption strategies funded by the Social Science & Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence (SSH Centre).
2019-09-01
New Ideas on the Emergence and Evolution of Life
KLI Colloquium: Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Tomsk State University), 3 September, 5.00 pm
2021-01-18
New fellow at the KLI: Luis Alejandro Villanueva Hernández
Welcoming Alejandro back as a postdoc fellow!
2022-02-05
New book: The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects
A new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology at The MIT Press
2023-09-21
New Book: Properties of Life: Toward a Theory of Organismic Biology
The new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press is a coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms.
2023-07-18
New book: Evolvability: A Unifying Concept in Evolutionary Biology?
The latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press.
2023-08-24
New book: Evolution „On Purpose”: Teleonomy in Living Systems
The new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press is a unique exploration of teleonomy- "evolved purposiveness"- as a major influence in evolution.