The "Toward a science of intrinsic purposiveness: open-ended evolution and organizational closure" project is currently recruiting two postdoctoral positions. Both are based at the University of Toulouse, and the application deadline for both positions is 6 January 2023.
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Postdoctoral position in Theoretical Biology
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Postdoctoral position in Theoretical Biology / Philosophy of Biology
Phil Donoghue, PI of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to the Nature article, “Saccorhytus is an early ecdysozoan and not the earliest deuterostome.”
Craig Lowe, PI of “The Genetic Basis of Macroevolutionary Trends” project, contributed to the Open Access Cell article, “An ancestral mycobacterial effector promotes dissemination of infection.”
Two members of “The Genetic Basis of Macroevolutionary Trends,” Craig Lowe and Riley Mangan, contributed to the Open Access Cell article, “Adaptive sequence divergence forged new neurodevelopmental enhancers in humans.”
Anya Plutynski, coordinator of the Agency and Directionality in Development projects, wrote the “Philosophical issues in cancer and public health” chapter in The Routledge Handbook of Philosophy of Public Health.