Events & Courses

What will evolutionary biology look like in 50 years? More of the same or will there be new paradigms, new syntheses? What lies on the horizon?

This conference is an opportunity to focus on the important research objectives, discuss the best ways to achieve them, and use these to set a considered agenda for the continued study of evolution. What are the questions we now need to define? For instance;

• Is evolutionary convergence ubiquitous? If so, is this of any wider significance?
• Can we define biological complexity? Are there limits to complex systems?
• How do biological systems integrate? How do horizontally transmitted genes become incorporated into the genome?
• What is the significance of mosaic evolution?
• How soon before we detect habitable planets and what is the significance for exobiology?
• What is the nature of consciousness, and in the context of neuroscience are there any compelling explanations?

Further information

Join us! If you think you might attend, please let us know. We are also open for speaker submissions; please contact us as soon as possible with your provisional title. A Second Circular is in preparation and in due course we will solicit Abstracts and give details as to how to book, etc.

Registration now open. To register please visit the Earth Science Website.