We welcome Eva Fernandez-Labandera Tejado from the University of the Basque Country to the KLI.

Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Vienna's Biologische Versuchsanstalt. A new volume in the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology edited by Gerd Müller was published in October 2017!

We welcome Javier SUAREZ (University of Barcelona) who will work on his project "Stability of Traits as the Kind of Stability that Matters: Holobionts as Units of Selection."

The September issue of our journal, Biological Theory, is now out.

We welcome Harold de Vladar to the KLI.

Guido Caniglia took up his position as Scientific Director of the KLI in November 2018.

“...from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being evolved...” (Darwin 1859) But what about the time before the ‘so simple’ beginning? Does evolutionary theory apply there? Let's ask Schoenmakers et al.!

The Vienna Science Studies Lab is an intra-institution initiative revived this winter by the KLI, UPSalon UniVie, and the In/human project at CEU. A reading group on Feminist STS is the first event.

This reading group is loosely but seriously centered around agency.

In a recent publication in PloS One, KLI senior postdoc fellow Anne Le Maître and KLI alumna Lumila Menéndez argue for more sustainable and ethical practices for the study of anthropological collections. (click on title to continue)

In a recent article in Biological Theory, Philipp Mitteroecker questions traditional concepts of measurement error in biology. (click on title to continue)

In a recent paper published in Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, KLI fellow Oryan Zacks, along with Eva Jablonka, discusses the evolution of neural structures related to imagination. (click on title to continue)

In a recent paper published in BioSocieties, KLI Alumnus Elis Jones and E.M. Bertrand discuss how oceans, and biogeochemical systems in general, can be considered metabolic. (Click on the title to continue)

The special issue “The Relevance of a Philosophical Toolkit to Advance Neuroscience” in the European Journal of Neuroscience, edited by KLI Group Leader Isabella Sarto-Jackson and colleagues, is online now. (Click on the title to continue)

KLI fellow Anne Le Maître, along with colleagues from the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris, coordinated a special issue of the journal BMSAP on the topic "Mortuary practices and social inference.” (Click on title to continue)

KLI fellow Anne Le Maître, along with colleagues from the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris coordinated a special issue of the Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP) on the topic, "Invasive, micro-invasive and non-invasive analysis of anthropobiological remains. How and why?” This special issue comprises several articles stemming from the presentations given during the 2023 annual meeting of the Société d'Anthropologie de Paris. (Click on title to continue)

In a recent paper published in The American Naturalist, KLI alumni Hari Sridhar and Joyshree Chanam, together with Priyanka Hariharan, contribute to the ongoing debate over the place of natural history in ecology and evolutionary biology (EEB). (Click on the title to continue)

A recent paper co-authored by Barbara Fischer and Philipp Mitteroecker applies the cliff-edge model of obstetric selection to real-world data and illustrates how medical interventions can alter evolutionary dynamics. (click on title to continue)

In a new article in the Journal of the History of Biology, KLI postdoctoral fellow Marcelo Domingos de Santis challenges the conventional narrative of the systematics wars. (click on title to continue)

In a recent paper published in Nature Communications, KLI fellow Sanjay Narayanaswamy and colleagues investigate the role of Notch signaling in self-organizing gastruloids. (click on title to continue)