EXSY Reading Group

Coordenação | Coordination:

Elena Casetta; Nathalie Gontier; Davide Vecchi

 

 

 

Sobre || About

EXSY Reading Group is an interdisciplinary group devoted to analysing the evolutionary literature on the putative amendments required by the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Scholars coming from different evolutionary fields have highlighted a variety of processes and phenomena neglected by the Modern Synthesis. In a first phase, we plan to analyse the literature in order to, in a second phase, discuss how to best characterise the so-called "extension" that is required.

 

 

Actividades || Activities

  1. 6 Jul 2016; FCUL; 17h00; Edif. MARE; Biodecon Seminar - EXSY reading group - Joined Session. Program: • Elena Casetta & Silvia Di Marco: "How Biodiversity has been Defined?"; • General discussion; • Pre-summer break beer; Suggested reading: Delong, D.C.,1996 Defining Biodiversity. Wildlife Soc Bull 24: 738–749 [pdf]; Sarkar, S., 2002, Defining "Biodiversity". Assessing biodiversity. The Monist 85/1: 131-155.
  2. 17 Mai 2016; FCUL; 11h00 - 13h00; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Twelfth Session, Discussion of Ecological Inheritance and Cultural Inheritance: What Are They and How Do They Differ? by John Odling-Smee & Kevin N. Laland [read article] [+info]
  3. 4 Mai 2016; FCUL; 11h00 - 13h00; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Eleventh Session, Discussion of E. Danchin's et al. Beyond DNA: integrating inclusive inheritance into an extended theory of evolution, Nature Reviews Genetics, 12, 2011, pp. 475-486.
  4. 20 Abr 2016; FCUL; 14h30 - 16h30; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Tenth Session, Discussion of W.F. Doolittle's "Microbial neopleomorphism", (Biol Philos (2013) 28:351–378 [pdf]) and W.F. Doolittle and O. Zhaxybayeva's "Metagenomics and the Units of Biological Organization" (BioScience, February 2010 / Vol. 60 No. 2, pp. 102-112 [pdf])
  5. 22 Mar 2016; FCUL; 11h00 - 13h00; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Ninth Session, Discussion of Ellen Clarke "Levels of selection in biofilms: multispecies biofilms are not evolutionary individuals", Biology and Philosophy (2016) 31:191–212 [pdf]
  6. 16 Mar 2016; FCUL; 11h00 - 13h00; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Eight Session. Discussion of M. Barbieri, "Biosemiotics: a new understanding of life" [pdf], Naturwissenschaften, Volume 95, Issue 7, pp 577-599.
  7. 24 Fev 2016; FCUL; 14h00 - 16h00; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Seventh Session. Discussion of Lloyd, E.A. & Gould S.J. "BSpecies selection on variability" Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA, Vol. 90, pp. 595-599, January 1993 – please notice: the reading group will start at 2 pm instead of 2.30.
  8. 3 Fev 2016; FCUL; 14h30 - 16h30; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Sixth Session. Discussion of D. Jablonski, "Species Selection: Theory and Data" [pdf], Annual Review of Ecology, Evolution, and Systematics, Vol. 39: 501-524 (Volume publication date December 2008). [abstract]
  9. 20 Jan 2016; FCUL; 14h30 - 16h30; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Fifth Session.Discussion of Stuart A. Westa, Roberta M. Fishera , Andy Gardnerc, and E. Toby Kiers, "Major evolutionary transitions in individuality" [pdf], PNAS 112(33), 2015: 10112–10119. Discussion on the second part ("Case study 2: The levels of selection and major evolutionary transitions") of Pigliucci, M., Finkelman, L. "The Extended (Evolutionary) Synthesis Debate: Where Science Meets Philosophy", BioScience Advance Access published May 7, 2014
  10. 9 Dez 2015; FCUL; 11h - 13h; C4.3.30 Meeting room; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Fourth Session. Discussion on Pigliucci, M., Finkelman, L. "The Extended (Evolutionary) Synthesis Debate: Where Science Meets Philosophy", BioScience Advance Access published May 7, 2014.
  11. 25 Nov 2015; FCUL; 11h - 13h; Sala 4.3.30; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Third Session. Discussion on E. Crispo,"The Baldwin Effect and Genetic Assimilation: Revisiting Two Mechanisms of Evolutionary Change Mediated by Phenotypic Plasticity", Evolution 61-11: 2469-2479.
  12. 2 Nov 2015; FCUL; 11h - 13h; Sala 4.3.30; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis Second Session. Discussion on Scott F. Gilbert, Thomas C. G. Bosch & Cristina Ledón-Rettig, "Eco-Evo-Devo: developmental symbiosis and developmental plasticity as evolutionary agents", Nature Reviews Genetics 16, 611–622 (2015).
  13. 22 Out 2015 ; FCUL; 14h - 16h; Sala 6.1.25; Reading Group on the Extended Synthesis First Session. Discussion on the paper entitled "The extended evolutionary synthesis: its structure, assumptions and predictions", by Kevin N. Laland, Tobias Uller, Marcus W. Feldman, Kim Sterelny, Gerd B. Müller, Armin Moczek, Eva Jablonka and John Odling-Smee.