A book that investigates key issues on levels of organization, including new thinking on downward causation, dynamical autonomy, and compositionality in complex biological systems.

Visiting fellow Leo Bich has signed a book contract with Cambridge University Press to write about "Biological Organization."

Isabella Sarto-Jackson (KLI) will be giving a lecture series in Cognitive Biology at the Comenius University in Bratislava. Course is open to cognitive science and biology students of all levels.

Interview of Stuart Newman with Jochen Stadler (Austrian Press Agency – APA)

Eörs SZATHMARY (KLI, Klosterneuburg & Parmendies Foundation, Pöcking & Institute of Evolution, Budapest), 17 November 2022, 3.00 pm. To join our colloquium please register with Zoom.

The new KLI Homepage will be launched on October 6th, 2017.

New book of The Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology by Snait Gissis, Ehud Lamm, and Ayelet Shavit. Broad perspective on collectivity in the life sciences, from microorganisms to human consensus, and the theoretical and empirical opportunities and challenges.

Wie antike Philosophie mit nachhaltigen Lösungen zusammenhängt

KLI Colloquium: Ioan FAZEY (Centre for Ecology Research, Tihany), 18 February 2020, 5.00 pm.

On the occasion of Gregor Johann Mendel's 200th anniversary, a public symposium (Oct 13-14) will be hosted at the KLI to reflect on his work and legacy.

What is life? Where did it come from? Is it all part of a divine master plan, or was it a spectacular chemical “accident”?

We welcome KLI postdoctoral fellow Barbara FISCHER back! Barbara returned from maternity leave and will continue to work on her project "Evolvability and Integration of the Human Pelvis."

KLI fellows Luana Poliseli, Marco Treven, Elis Jones, Cristina Villegas, Alejandro Villanueva and incoming fellow Alejandro Fabregas-Tejeda attended the 6th EASPLS at University of Bordeaux. Isabella Sarto-Jackson gave an input talk on Complexity and the Tyranny of Scales.

She will start a FWF-funded project “Evolvability of inner and middle ears in birds and mammals."

Spring 2021 was an exciting time for pelvis research with four new papers on the evolution of the human pelvis and birth canal.

KLI alum Amitangshu Acharya and coauthor Sudipto Sanyal write about Kolkata's "Black Gold."

Predictive Processing Symposium: From Concept to Circuits – symposium organized by Vienna Cognitive Science Hub featuring K. Friston and N. Uchida. Panel discussants: K. Friston, N. Uchida, I. Sarto-Jackson, M. Grosse-Wentrup, M. Zimmer, moderated by R. Sladky

Join us for the KLI Colloquium by Stuart NEWMAN on 18 OCTOBER 2017, 4.30 pm!

The KLI was present as both a sponsor and as attendees, with fellows and faculty presenting on the historical and philosophical aspects of evo-devo.

The working group explores the value of evolutionary mechanisms for explaining complex social-ecological change.