In a new study, published in Nature Ecology and Evolution, co-lead authors Daniel Stadtmauer (KLI alumnus) and Silvia Basanta (KLI Postdoc Fellow), along with colleagues from the University of Vienna, Yale University, and the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, investigate cell signalling networks in the fetal-maternal interface, and reveal new insights into our current understanding of the co-evolution of fetal and maternal cell types to facilitate pregnancy. (Click on title to read more.)

What has Conspiracy Theories got to do with individual personality traits and socio-environmental factors?? Quite a lot actually, according to a new multi-author paper including Guido Caniglia, published in SN Social Sciences. (Click on title to read more…)

A new article co-authored by Guido Caniglia combines niche construction theory with social-ecological systems science to better understand the relationships between sociocultural and environmental co-evolutionary processes that have led to the current planetary crisis.

Understanding animal social networks through behavioral observations has been a challenge to behavioral ecologists due to many factors including non-independent interactions, sampling bias etc. that lead to confounded causal effects. In a recent paper published in PLOS Computational Biology, KLI Fellow Ben Kawam and colleagues present a new analytical framework based on causal inference that provides a more transparent link between empirical observations with theoretical models, and solves common statistical issues with in the analysis of animal social networks. (Click on title to read more.)

Co-authored by KLI fellow Christian Dorninger, their new paper shows that rich countries rely on a large net appropriation of resources from the global South.

Gerd B. Müller and Ehab Abouheif's new entry on evo-devo offers an introduction to characteristic themes and highlights selected papers that address crucial conceptual aspects.

A group around KLI fellow Nicole Grunstra and Philipp Mitteroecker developed new methods to reconstruct phylogenetic relationships from morphology.

We welcome our new writing-up fellow Gregory RUPIK (University of Toronto) who will work on the project "Organismal Agency in Romantic Biology and Today."

We welcome our new postdoctoral fellow Alice LACINY who will work on the project "Eco-Evo-Devo in Action: Parasite-Induced Morphologies in Ants."

We welcome Lorenzo DEL SAVIO (University of Munich) to the KLI who will work on his project "Are Humans Self-domesticated Animals?"

Biological Theory Issue 13:1 is online now. Enjoy the introduction to the thematic section / guest editorial ...

Several KLI fellows have come together in summer 2023 to work on an interdisciplinary project on climate adaption strategies funded by the Social Science & Humanities for Climate, Energy and Transport Research Excellence (SSH Centre).

KLI Colloquium: Roberto Cazzolla Gatti (Tomsk State University), 3 September, 5.00 pm

Welcoming Alejandro back as a postdoc fellow!

Welcoming Orsolya Bajer-Molnár to the KLI

Welcoming Writing-up fellow Anna Sundermann

A new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology at The MIT Press

The new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press is a coherent and comprehensive theory of life that synthesizes the specific properties of living organisms.

The latest addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press.

The new addition to the Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology from the MIT Press is a unique exploration of teleonomy- "evolved purposiveness"- as a major influence in evolution.