Cristina Villegas is group leader on “Philosophy of the Life Sciences” at the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research. She is a philosopher of biology specialized in causal explanations, probabilities and chance in evolutionary biology, with a special focus on evo-devo and evolvability research. She is particularly interested in the intersection between evolutionary developmental biology and evolutionary quantitative genetics, and her work revolves around the epistemological, ontological, and historical aspects of this intersection.

Keywords: Philosophy of evolutionary biology; Philosophy of probability; Chance in evolution; Causality and dispositional explanations; Evolutionary developmental biology; Cultural evolution.

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Contact: cristina.villegas [at] kli.ac.at