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 on the life sciences, and he is a great storyteller and science journalist. I have only a limited amount of training in ...read more →

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 Systems 2017. CCS17 runs for six days, 17-22 Sept, and is the leading gathering of complexity science scholars in the ...read more →

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 what I think needs to happen for cosmology to develop a better understanding of universal change: There is nothing in ...read more →

“…science is impelled by two main factors, technological advance and a guiding vision (overview). A properly balanced relationship between the two is key to the successful development of a science: without the proper technological advances, the road ahead is blocked. Without a guiding vision, there is no road ...read more →