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Biological Hierarchies

Time and Location

June 3-4, 2011, IHPST, 13 rue du Four, Paris (VIème)

Schedule

Friday 3 June

08:45: Welcome

SESSION 1 – Chair: Antonine Nicoglou, IHPST et Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne



09:00:Jacob Stegenga, University of Toronto / University of California San Diego, “Biological Populations”
→Comment: Françoise Longy, IHPST et Université de Strasbourg
Discussion

10:00:Jonathan Birch, Cambridge University, “Teamwork and Selflessness in the Fraternal Transitions”
→Comment: Denis Walsh, University of Toronto
Discussion

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: Christophe Malaterre, IHPST, “Dismantling Hierarchies: On a Gradualist Transition from Non-Living Matter to Living Matter”
→Comment: Cory Lewis, Toronto University
Discussion

12:30 Lunch break

SESSION 2 – Chair: Jean Gayon, IHPST et Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne

14:00: Mohan Matthen, Toronto University, “Species as Historical Kinds”
→Comment: Elena Casetta, IHPST et Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
Discussion

15:00: Eugene Earshaw, University of Toronto, “Contextual analysis of multi-level selection: reflections on reflections on Okasha”
→Comment: tba
Discussion

16:00: Coffee break

16:30: Keynote lecture: Samir Okasha, Bristol University, “Group Adaptation Revisited”
Discussion

17:45: Adjourn

19:00: Dinner

Saturday 4 June

08:45: Coffee

SESSION 3 – Chair: Frédéric Bouchard, Université de Montréal

09:00: David Crawford, Duke University, “The Role of Cellularization in the Evolutionary Development of Hierarchy in the Fungi”
→Comment: Arnaud Pocheville, IHPST et ENS
Discussion

10:00: Philippe Huneman, CNRS et IHPST, “Organisms and Genes, Microevolution and Macroevolution”
→Comment: Laurent Jodoin, Université de Montréal et Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne
Discussion

11:00: Coffee break

11:30: Pierre-Olivier Methot, Exeter University et Université Paris 1 – Panthéon Sorbonne,“Emerging Diseases and the Evolution of Virulence”
→Comment: Paul Thompson, Toronto University
Discussion

12:30 Lunch break

SESSION 4 – Chair: Francesca Merlin, IHPST et Université Paris 4 – Sorbonne

14:00: Mathieu Côté-Charbonneau, Université de Montréal,“Individuals, Populations, and the Extension of Darwinism”
→Comment: Tim Lewens, Cambridge University
Discussion

15:00: Robert Brandon, Duke University,“The Hierarchical Nature of Biology's First Law”
→Comment: Joeri Witteween, Cambridge University
Discussion

16:00: Coffee break

16:30: Plenary session, discussion

17:30: End of conference