*""* *Reticulate evolution before and after the modern synthesis: historical and epistemological perspectives and wider applications beyond traditional fields*
Nathalie Gontier (1) & Jan Sapp (2) 1 - Universidade de Lisboa, Portugal 2 - York University, Canada Studies of symbiosis, symbiogenesis and lateral gene transfer challenge the Modern Synthesis’ one-genome: one-organism conception. Evidence of reticulate evolution today demands that what counts as an “individual” be reconsidered, and impacts phylogenetic reconstructions of life’s major taxa. New units of evolution have been proposed, including the “holobiont” or “symbiome,” and it is becoming clear that reticulate evolution causally influences processes of speciation as well as extinction. Research on reticulate evolution is also integrated in fields that surpass classic evolutionary biology. Medicine, agriculture, and even the sociocultural sciences (including sociology, anthropology and linguistics) are applying key concepts and methodologies associated with research on symbiosis, symbiogenesis and lateral gene transfer. In this symposium, we bring together historians, philosophers, biologists and anthropologists to discuss 1) the historical roots of symbiosis and its eclectic development in various biological and sociocultural specialties from the 19th century to the present; 2) the epistemic challenges that reticulate evolution presents in providing new mechanisms, units and levels of evolution as well as new iconographies to reconstruct life’s history; and 3) the potential reticulate evolution has to go beyond the biological sciences to model and conceptualize sociocultural evolution. *""* from here: http://iss-symbiosis.org/Symposia why not integrate telecommunication arts into the beyond ~~~~~~ Out beyond ideas of wrongdoing and rightdoing, there is a field. I'll meet you there. When the soul lies down in that grass, the world is too full to talk about. Ideas, language, even the phrase "each other" doesn't make any sense. (Rumi) On Fri, Mar 6, 2015 at 7:00 AM, <[email protected]> wrote: > >
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