Hugh Desmond, part of the "Agency and agential explanation in the evolutionary sciences" project, wrote the Open Access Bioethics article, "The ethics of expert communication."
Phil Donoghue, PI of the "Chance versus purpose in the evolution of biospheres" project, contributed to the Open Access Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology article, "Testing hypotheses of pteraspid heterostracan feeding using computational fluid dynamics."
Charbel El-Hani, PI of the "An organizational account of ecological functions" project, contributed to the Indian Journal of Microbiology article, "Impact of Extracellular DNA on Architectural Parameters of Leptospira biflexa Biofilm."
Davide Pisani, part of the "Chance versus purpose in the evolution of biospheres" project, contributed to the Papers in Palaeontology article, "New insights into the sea spider fauna (Arthropoda, Pycnogonida) of La Voulte‐sur‐Rhône, France (Jurassic, Callovian)."
Created as part of the Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres project, the quilt was made by Julie Harvey and Ilaria Padovani, the "Serendipity Stitchers.” They are a team of two artists and quilt makers who work for the Kaffe Fassett Studio.
The quilt represents the Tree of Life and conveys geological time, from bottom to top, through the horizontal coloured stripes reflecting the changing redox states through Earth history. It also conveys evolutionary history of life on Earth, with nucleic acid polymers at the roots of the tree, passing through unicellular microbes, unicellular eukaryotes, through to diverse multicellular eukaryotes towards the tips of the tree.
