Event Dates: 17-19 May 2013
Event Location: Lisbon, Portugal
Event URL: http://evolutionarypatterns.fc.ul.pt/sub/cfa/cfa.html
We call for bioinformaticians, evolutionary biologists, microbiologists, paleontologists, geologists, physicists, mathematicians, anthropologists, archeologists, linguists, sociologists, economists, and philosophers and historians of science to provide talks on the following topics:
- Conceptualization, quantification and modeling of horizontal and vertical transmission in biological and sociocultural sciences
- Bioinformatic approaches in biology, paleontology, anthropology, archeology, linguistics, sociology, and economics. These approaches can include: phylogenetics, phylogenomics, complex network based models, mathematical and statistical (computer) simulations, imaging techniques, (multi-)agent models, Complex Adaptive Systems approaches, …
- Tree versus network diagrams
- Mechanisms of horizontal and/or vertical transmission
- Parallels and differences between biological and sociocultural trait transmission and inter-individual interactions
- Conceptualization, quantification and modeling of micro- and macroevolution in biological and sociocultural sciences
- Mechanisms of biological and/or sociocultural micro- and macroevolution
- Modes of biological and/or sociocultural micro- and macroevolution
- Tempos of biological and/or sociocultural micro- and macroevolution
- (Meta-)Patterns of evolution
- Parallels and differences between biological and sociocultural micro- and macroevolution
- Hierarchy theory and the units, levels and mechanisms of evolution
- Units of biological and/or sociocultural evolution
- Levels of biological and/or sociocultural evolution, multilevel selection theories
- Mechanisms of biological and sociocultural evolution
- (Nested) Hierarchy theory
- Emergence
- Upward and downward causation
- How the universal application of evolutionary theories enables new possibilities for inter- and transdisciplinary research and the unification of the sciences
- The need for an Extended Synthesis
- Universal Darwinism, Universal Selectionism
- The universality of symbiogenesis, reticulate evolution, hybridization, drift, patterns of punctuated equilibria, the ratchet effect, the Baldwin effect, …
- (Applied) Evolutionary Epistemology
- Unification of the sciences through shared research frameworks, methodologies, modeling techniques
- Philosophical analyses and historical accounts on attempts to unify the biological and the sociocultural sciences based upon evolutionary theory
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