News
2023-09-24
Conferences: Travelling ideas
The KLI fellows and team travelled to lots of conferences this summer, sharing insights from their research and discussing promising new endeavours with the international community.
2023-09-22
Vienna Science Studies Lab
The Vienna Science Studies Lab reading group continues and the lab will be expanded, hosting meetings on works in progress to enable constructive feedback.
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.
2023-09-11
Biological Theory’s September issue is out
The editors summarize issue 18(3)—which includes a debate on the evolution of consciousness and a new look at the role of abiotic stressors on immune systems—out this month, with free reading links for articles.
2023-09-11
Will the Real Hans Asperger Please Stand Up? –Letters from the Round Table
Dean FALK (Florida State University,Tallahassee, USA), 2023-09-21 15:00 (CET). This colloquium will take place in person (no virtual participation possible).
2023-09-11
Welcoming Enrico Petracca to the KLI
Enrico Petracca’s project “Embodied Rationality: Normative and Evolutionary Foundations” introduces a novel naturalistic perspective on rationality, called "embodied rationality".
2023-09-01
Welcoming Daniel Stadtmauer to the KLI
Stadtmauer’s project “The Developmental Evolutionary Basis of Tissue Type” aims to develop a theory for the developmental-evolutionary concept of "tissue type".
2023-09-01
KLI in the World: a digest of conference travels last fall and winter
Members of the KLI family have been connecting with academics around the world though conferences and workshops. Here is a glimpse. (Click in title to read more)
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.
2023-08-07
The mathematics of Leonardo da Vinci's anatomical drawings
In "Revisiting Leonardo on Muscles: Intimations of Mathematical Biology and Biomechanics," Michael Kemp explores da Vinci's remarkable anatomical drawings.
2023-08-07
Complexity literacy for sustainable digital transformation
A new book chapter co-authored by Guido Caniglia argues for systems thinking, complexity literacy and transdisciplinary methodology for sustainability education.
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.
2023-07-16
Reading group: third meeting of the Vienna Science Studies Lab
The Vienna Science Studies Lab recently held its third meeting at the KLI, discussing Max Liboiron's "Pollution is Colonialism".
2023-07-10
Navigating collaboration: Introducing PLUS change
We are excited to announce our participation in PLUS Change, an international project aiming to transform land management strategies for social, climate, and biodiversity benefits.
2023-06-26
Biological Theory’s June issue is out
From Miocene mutualisms to suggestions for future evolutionary research, the editors summarize June’s issue 18(2), with links to free epdfs.
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.
2023-06-18
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolution and Development
Benedikt HALLGRIMSSON (University of Calgary), 2023-06-22 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2023-06-06
The Evolution of ‘Universal’ Human Mating Strategies: A Critique
Gillian BROWN (University of St. Andrews), 2023-06-15 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2023-06-05
Welcoming Kevin Lala to the KLI
Lala's stay at the KLI is a joint visiting fellowship with Gillian Brown to work on their project 'Promoting a Progressive Vision of Evolutionary Science'.
2023-06-05
Welcoming Gillian Brown to the KLI
Brown's stay at the KLI is a joint visiting fellowship with Kevin Lala to work on their project 'Promoting a Progressive Vision of Evolutionary Science'.