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The term 'multicellularity' constantly brings up confusion among scientists. The core problem here is that it's an adjective dressed up as a verb: it expands to 'multicellular group', 'multicellular individual', or 'multicellular organism'. These are not always the same.

➡️Two new articles online⬅️ "Context Matters: A Response to Autzen and Okasha’s Reply to Takacs and Bourrat" by Peter Takacs & Pierrick Bourrat Pierrick Bourrat Read it here: rdcu.be/dCwUo USYD_Philosophy Macquarie Philosophy Department Charles Perkins Centre 1/2

Our latest preprint doi.org/10.32942/X2V61T explains why fitness can be defined in so many ways, and which version(s) you should use for what. See threads in other places for explainers Frozen account of Guilhem Doulcier Pierrick Bourrat

Curious about the link between fitness and evolvability? 🔍 Cristina Villegas (Inaplicables), Katie Deaven, and I have the answers you need! doi.org/10.1007/s10539…

Not long to go until the Sino-Australian Philosophy of Life Sciences Network (SAPoLSN) 2024 summer school, “Evolution and Development: From Life to Mind.” 11-17 August, Peking University. “Engage with philosophical questions emerging around contemporary issues at the nexus of

➡️New issue now out!⬅️ With writing on Richard Lewontin and what a snake study indicates about human evolution, plus much more in our latest issue, 19:3! See everything available in our September issue here: link.springer.com/journal/13752/…

Thanks to the organizers and contributors for making the 2024 SAPoLSN summer school such a success! Pierrick Bourrat phil.pku.edu.cn/jlhz/2024sqxx/… Now for the Evolution and Development workshop (19-20 August).

For biologists, philosophers of biology, and cognitive scientists, the Evolving Individuality 2024 conference will run @ Macquarie University from 2 - 4 December, focusing on biological individuality and evolution. Registration is essential: pierrickbourrat.github.io/EvolvingIndivi…

With talks from Frozen account of Guilhem Doulcier, Patrick McGivern, Peter Godfrey-Smith, @philippehune, @AdrianoStencel, Andrew Black, Andy Clark, Elizabeth Ostrowski, Patten Lab , @RaineyLab, @RenskeVroomans ,Rose Trappes, Rutger Hermsen, Yuriy Pichugin , and Peter Conlin among others!

Paul Rainey opens Pierrick Bourrat’s Evolving Individuality workshop. Is the evolution of individuality the same process as the evolution of evolvability?