News
2018-04-20
The Inheritance of Small RNAs – A Case for Theoretical Pluralism?
KLI Colloquium: Sophie Veigl, 26 April, 3.00 pm
2019-10-22
The Influence of Demography and Evolution on Caesarean Section Rates
KLI Colloquium: Barbara FISCHER (KLI), 29 October 2019, 3.00 pm
2017-12-12
The Impossible Worlds Problem for Fictionalist Accounts of Evolutionary Models
Brian McLoone (Higher School of Economics, Moscow) will give a talk at the KLI on Monday 18 December 2017, 3.00 pm.
2017-10-20
The Governance of Innovation Processes
KLI Colloquium: Manfred D. Laubichler (Arizona State University)
2019-11-21
The Genetic Basis of Animal Domestication: An Old Question, a New Approach
KLI Colloquium: Adam WILKINS (Humboldt University, Berlin), 26 November 2019, 5.00 pm.
2024-09-24
The Fall-Winter 2024-2025 KLI Colloquium Series
Save the dates!! Here's announcing the Fall-Winter 2024-2025 KLI Colloquium Series! We have a great list of speakers for the Fall-Winter program starting on the 3rd of October: Martin Brüne (Ruhr-University Bochum), Mihaela Pavlicev (University of Vienna), Kevin Lala (University of St. Andrews), Stuart Newman (New York Medical College), Sarah Davies (University of Vienna), Barbara Fischer (KLI & University of Vienna), Simon Huttegger (University of California, Irvine), Sergio Porta (University of Strathclyde) and Martin Schmid (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna (BOKU).
2018-07-01
The Extinction of Life: An Inquiry into Disease
KLI Colloquium: François PELLET (University of Münster), 11 July, 3.00 pm
2019-02-25
The Evolutionary Connection between Human Salivary Amylase and Oral Starch Digestion from an Experimental Perspective
KLI Colloquium: Stephanie SCHNORR (KLI), 19 March, 4.00 pm
2023-06-06
The Evolution of ‘Universal’ Human Mating Strategies: A Critique
Gillian BROWN (University of St. Andrews), 2023-06-15 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2020-02-19
The Evolution of the Female Orgasm
KLI Colloquium: Mihaela PAVLICEV (University of Vienna), 10 March 2020, 5.00 pm
2019-03-21
The Evolution of Social-Ecological Systems
KLI Colloquium: Tim WARING (University of Maine), 2 April, 5.00 pm
2024-11-25
The Evolution of Human Birth
Barbara FISCHER (KLI & University of Vienna), 2024-11-28 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!
2018-06-11
The Development and Evolution of Tiger Moth Wing Patterning
KLI Colloquium: Rick GAWNE (KLI), 21 June, 2018, 3.00 pm.
2021-12-19
The December 2021 issue of Biological Theory is now out!
Featuring a section commemorating Richard Lewontin (1929-2021) and a tribute to Karen Neander (1954-2020).
2025-01-16
The Danube’s Industrialization – a co-evolutionary environmental history
Martin SCHMID (University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Vienna & KLI), 2025-01-23 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!
2022-09-29
The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects: the workshop behind the book
An interview with Richard Gawne and Ted R. Schultz digs into the origin story of their open access book: The Convergent Evolution of Agriculture in Humans and Insects (MIT Press).
2023-06-18
The Conceptual Foundations of Evolution and Development
Benedikt HALLGRIMSSON (University of Calgary), 2023-06-22 15:00 (CET). To join our colloquium please register with Zoom
2020-11-11
The biological potential of the endocranium to contribute to the peopling of South America debate.
A promising methodological strategy from virtual anthropology that would allow disentangling co-existing models to explain how the first humans arrived into the Americas.
2023-10-10
The 40th Altenberg Workshop: Directionality in Genomics and Macroevolution
Recently, the KLI hosted the 40th Altenberg Workshop in Theoretical Biology entitled "Directionality in Genomics and Macroevolution", organised by Laura Nuno de la Rosa, Craig Lowe, Adi Livnat and Beckett Sterner.
2022-06-24
The 39th Altenberg Workshop: Agency in Living Systems
The "Agency in Living Systems: Conceptual Frameworks and Research Approaches" Altenberg workshop was co-organized by Sonia Sultan and Armin Moczek as part of their "Agency in Living Systems" project.