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)

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)

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)

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)

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

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)

This reading group is loosely but seriously centered around agency.

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.

“...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.!

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

We welcome Harold de Vladar to the KLI.

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

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."

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 Murillo Pagnotta from the University of St. Andrews to the KLI.

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

We welcome Roland Zimm from the University of Helsinki to the KLI.

We welcome Writing-Up Fellow Christian DORNINGER who will work at the KLI on his project "Biophysical Human-Nature Disconnections as a Form of Sociocultural Niche Construction" starting on April 1st, 2019.

KLI Colloquium: Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera, 12 April, 3.00 pm