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 My essay on the Post-Human body, now freely available  online  at Public Philosophy Journal 'The Philosopher'  thephilosopher1923.o...

So I fell down a google hole for a little personal project I started recently on life forms that can regrow and become rejuvenated after ser...

  So yesterday went really well. To my surprise, i did everything i'd planned!  My brain was working, i made some good headway on the ta...

Alex Byrne has kindly sent me a response to my post on his article , which I here reproduce in full, with his permission and his original em...

Anne Fausto-Sterling is a developmental biologist who has spent decades exploring the biological and social factors that work together to pr...

I was having a conversation with someone the other day about how at All Souls College they sing a bizarre song about a mythical duck ,

We are enjoying yet another stunning autumn day here in the North of England - it’s cold but crisp, the light has a wonderful slightly ho...

Congratulations to  Kevin Laland and Tobias Uller have just been awarded a stonking £5.7 million grant for an international, multi-discipl...

Did you know, a mother’s love is so strong that the power of her kiss can be felt many generations after it happens? It is true of rat moth...

Th is is t he latest in my series of blog posts summarising the talks and responses that took pla ce at the meeting 'Inheritance and c...

Dr Jonathan Birch from the LSE is working on a book called 'The Philosophy of Social Evolution'. For this meeting Birch drew on his...

Dr Simon Powers is a member of the Lehmann group in the Department of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Lausanne, although he orig...

Dr Francesca Merlin from the IHPST (CNRS, Paris) gave a talk based on her forthcoming paper which evaluates recent calls to extend our noti...

For the first guest talk of the meeting, we heard from Dr Heikki Helanterä, who is a biologist from the University of Helsinki, working on e...

Apparently some short girl called Clarke dreamt up the idea of linking inheritance and cooperation for the focus of a conference. An audio...

Inheritance and Cooperation June 25 th & 26 th , Balliol College Oxford Heredity is understood to be a core ingred...

To explain the origin of any transition, it is necessary to identify some phenotypic change that brings about a new fitness benefit.

Microbiology / kin selection peeps, I need your help understanding something. Here is a sentence I came across in a paper from the Stereln...

Last week I learnt from Ronald Noè that female chimps (and other primates) pay new mothers (in time spent grooming) for a go on their ba...

There are plenty of houses, in the transitional area of Oxford where I live, whose gardens are what some would call anti-social. Lawns un...