News
2019-09-03
Using Discomfort to Prompt Learning in Collaborative Teams
New blog by Rebecca Freeth (Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS), Potsdam) and Guido Caniglia (KLI)
2019-09-01
New Ideas on the Emergence and Evolution of Life
KLI Colloquium: Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Tomsk State University), 3 September, 5.00 pm
2019-09-01
Sustainability—a complex challenge
Public Event to kick-off the KLI / Complexity Hub Workshop "Sustainability as a Problem of Complexity: Past, Present and Future of Sustainability Science in the Anthropocene" (12 –13 September 2019)
2019-08-20
Part 2 of Wim HORDIK´s article on the history of origin of life research in ORBITER magazine
As a young student in Russia, Alexander Oparin learned about Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. However, even though it was a convincing theory of how life on earth had evolved, it did not have anything to say about how it started.
2019-08-19
KLI Senior Fellow Wim HORDIK´s article on the history of origin of life research has been published in ORBITER magazine
What is life? Where did it come from? Is it all part of a divine master plan, or was it a spectacular chemical “accident”?
2019-07-26
Visiting Fellow Maria CEREZO (University of Murcia)
We welcome Maria Cerezo (University of Murcia) to the KLI who will work on her project "Interactions between Metaphysics and Biology: Some Study-Cases in Molecular, Developmental and Evolutionary Biology" from July 30th to September 3rd.
2019-07-22
Inferring the Early History of the Bantu Expansion from Languages and Genes with Approximate Bayesian Computation
KLI Colloquium: Igor YANOVICH (Tübingen University), 5 September, 12.00 pm/noon
2019-07-16
Congratulations to Postdoctoral Fellow Sidney CARLS-DIAMANTE for being awarded the WERNER CALLEBAUT PRIZE
We are proud to announce that KLI Postdoctoral Fellow Sidney Carls-Diamante was awarded the WERNER CALLEBAUT PRIZE 2019 by the ISHPSSB committee for her publication "Make Up Your Mind: Octopus Cognition and Hybrid Explanation" published in Synthese.
2019-07-15
Visiting Fellow Chia-Hua LIN
We welcome Chia-Hua Lin to the KLI who will work on her project "The Migrations of Game Theory and Formal Language Theory: Understanding the Crossdisciplinary
Use of Mathematical Constructs, Its Epistemic Opportunities and Risks" from July 15th to September 30th.
2019-06-26
Round Table on Historical, Philosophical, and Interdisciplinary Writing and Publishing
Join us for the panel discussion at the ISHPSSB Meeting 2019 in Oslo: Wednesday, 10 July 9.00 am – 10.30 am
2019-06-26
Mentoring Groups at the ISHPSSB Meeting 2019
The ISHPSSB Education Committee has organized small group sessions on professional development taking place on Tuesday July 9th, 12.30 to 14.30 at the ISHPSSB Meeting 2019 in Oslo.
2019-06-24
Autocatalytic Sets and the Origin of Life
Current Research Talk in the KLI Colloquium series: Wim HORDIJK (KLI), 3 July, 4.00 pm.
2019-06-05
Behavioural Innovations in Animals and Humans
KLI Colloquium: Sabine TEBBICH (University of Vienna), 18 June, 5.00 pm
2019-06-04
Animal Models of Pain and the Puzzle of Similarity
Current Research Talk in the KLI Colloquium series: Nina ATANASOVA (University of Toledo & KLI), 25 June, 5.00 pm.
2019-06-03
Geological Agents? Thinking about the Human in the Anthropocene
KLI Colloquium: Eva HORN (University of Vienna), 4 June, 3.00 pm.
2019-05-22
Kick-off Meeting of the ATTRACT project at CERN (project coordinator KLI Senior Fellow Wim Hordijk)
We congratulate KLI Senior Fellow Wim Hordijk for being awarded one of the ATTRACT projects funded by the Horizon 2020 program of the EU.
2019-05-22
Round Table on Darwinian Agriculture
Round table & mini science camp with George PERRY (Penn State University) about human evolution and ecological impacts of human activity.
2019-05-20
What Can Paleogenomics Tell Us about Prehistoric Agricultural Dispersals?
KLI Colloquium: Ron PINHASI (University of Vienna), 28 May, 5.00 pm
2019-05-20
Visitor Chiara Elettra FERRARIO (University of Munster)
We welcome Chiara Elettra Ferrario to the KLI who will work on a joint project with KLI postdoctoral fellow Ivan Gonzalez-Cabrera.
2019-05-13
Goethe and the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis
Current Research Talk: Gregory RUPIK (University of Toronto & KLI), 21 May, 5.00 pm