Jules Macome is a PhD student at the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. He holds a B.A. in Philosophy from University College London and a B.Phil. in Philosophy from the University of Oxford. His research focuses on the origins of life, particularly the application of evolutionary theory as a framework for explaining abiogenesis and its potential limitations. One of his central aims is to examine how debates in evolutionary biology impact the use of evolutionary concepts in origins research, while exploring how insights from origins research can inform and clarify controversies within evolutionary biology. He recently carried out a 6-month long research visit at the IAS-Research Centre at the University of the Basque Country.

Jules is interested in the potential for unifying the processes foregrounded by the Extended Evolutionary Synthesis, and its prospects of integration with (or reformation of) the Modern Evolutionary Synthesis. Aside from philosophy of biology, Jules is interested in genealogy, the history of evolutionary theory, its overlap with the history of eugenics, and trans/queer histories.