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I have just read David Quammen’s The Tangled Tree: A Radical New History of Life (2019). It is a beautifully written book on molecular phylogenetics. Quammen has written over a dozen books [...]

We are happy to announce the EDU community’s next academic meeting,  Evolution, Development, and Complexity 2017, a full-day satellite meeting on 20 Sept 2017, at the Conference on Complex [...]

I wrote the following today for our EDU wiki page on Evolutionary Development. It explains how valuable and yet how neglected models of biological development are in our current cosmology, and [...]

The EDU Wiki is where our community of scholars can share useful knowledge about EDU Research Themes and Research Questions. All EDU scholars may edit the wiki, and add pages for the community, [...]

This blog, aimed at both general readers and scholars, is about evolutionary and developmental, or “evo devo” models and perspectives on change. Such models can be applied to the universe as [...]

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Whenever we consider technology’s replication, variation, interaction, selection, and convergence, as its own complex adaptive system, we differentiate it from the evolutionary development of [...]

Evo devo sociology seeks to understand evolutionary and developmental interactions between biology and culture, in humans and all other intelligent animals. One working definition of social [...]

Biological systems engage in evolutionary (variational and selective) process, and they also develop (have heredity, reproduction, a predetermined, predictable and convergent series of [...]