I'm really looking forward to participating in this satellite event at Biology 25, the largest conference of organismal biology in Switzerland Programme – Biology25. I'm going to present work I've been developing on biological identity, with my co-author and former PhD student Dr Will Morgan. The organisers Afra Salazar and Luca Soldini are very kindly allowing me to present virtually.
The paper takes inspiration from Aristotle's solution to the problem of change, to propose an essential property that allows organisms to change over time without becoming numerically different substances. It then looks at how the action of selfish genetic elements problematizes gene-based versions of this property.
I'm excited to learn more about some of the different forms that selfish genetic elements take, and how they challenge our normal ideas about organismal unity and agency.
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