This conference seeks to bring together biologists and philosophers of biology to discuss biological individuality from an evolutionary perspective, encompassing topics from the origins of life and complex organisms to the emergence of animal cognition.
Monday 2 December
| 8.30 | Registration | |
| 9.00 | Pierrick Bourrat | Welcome |
| 9.15 | Paul Rainey | Thinking about evolvability in terms of evolutionary transitions in individuality |
| 10.00 | Elizabeth Ostrowski | Aggregative multicellularity in social amoebae: does it work? |
| 10.45 | Tea Break | |
| 11.15 | Yuriy Pichugin | Evolution of somatic cell lines at the onset of multicellularity |
| 12.00 | Renske Vroomans | A bottom-up model of the evolution of multicellular reproductive strategies |
| 12.45 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 | Peter Conlin | The entrenchment of multicellularity: group-specific adaptation limits evolutionary reversion to unicellularity |
| 2.45 | Rutger Hermsen | Lessons on abstract theory from a concrete computational model of the evolution of altruism |
| 3.30 | Tea Break | |
| 4.00 | Guilhem Doulcier | Ecological scaffolding of collective-level properties and the Goldilocks zone of ETIs |
Tuesday 3 December
| 9.00 | Andrew Black | Evolution of lifecycles in ecologically scaffolded populations |
| 9.45 | Sylvain Charlat | Heredity and individuality: ingredients or products of evolution? |
| 10.30 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 | Manus Patten | Major Reversions in Evolutionary Individuality |
| 11.45 | Johannes Martens | Darwinian indivisibility, egalitarian transitions and the 3-layered modely |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 | Pamela Lyon | Bioelectricity and the Evolution of Multicellular Individuality: Hints from the Microworld |
| 2.45 | Marcus Frean | Low Cognition Pathways to Massed Cooperation |
| 3.30 | Tea break | |
| 4.00 | Peter Godfrey-Smith | Cognition and the ‘Major Transitions’ |
Wednesday 4 December
| 9.00 | Rob Wilson | Norming Human Individuality |
| 9.45 | Adrian Stencel | Necessity and Contingency. Two kinds of Common Interest |
| 10.30 | Tea Break | |
| 11.00 | Rebecca Mann | How an Agential Account of Biological Individuality Can Come Apart from Concepts of the Organism |
| 11.45 | Andy Barron | Evolving individuality in insects |
| 12.30 | Lunch | |
| 2.00 | Patrick McGivern | Biological individuality and mesoscale structure |
| 2.45 | Rose Trappes | Behavioural Ecological Individuality and Major Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality |
| 3.30 | Tea break | |
| 4.00 | Andy Clark | Cognitive Entanglement: Predictive Brains and the Intimacy of Mind and World |
MGSM Hotel. 99 Talavera Rd, Macquarie Park NSW 2113
Thanks to the following for making this event possible
