Pierrick Bourrat, PI of the “Transitions in individuality: from ecology to teleonomy” project, co-wrote “Grains of Description in Biological and Cultural Transmission” published in the Journal of Cognition and Culture.
Alex McAvoy, part of the “Natural selection for collective purpose” project, co-wrote “Payoff landscapes and the robustness of selfish optimization in iterated games” in the Journal of Mathematical Biology.
Project: The Scaling-up of Purpose in Evolution (evo-ego): Connectionist approaches to the evolutionary transitions in individuality.
Application Deadline: 13 Sept 2022
Salary: £40-46k
Location: Southampton UK
Duration: 19 months
We welcome applications for a postdoctoral senior research fellow to build computational models of evolutionary processes, at the lab of Richard Watson at the University of Southampton. The position is available, for a duration of up to 19 months, starting Oct 2022 or as soon as possible thereafter. This is the second postdoc position for this project.
More information about the position and application details are available via PDF here and online here.
Philip Donoghue, PI of the “Chance versus Purpose in the Evolution of Biospheres” project, contributed to the article “The Evolution of the Spiracular Region From Jawless Fishes to Tetrapods” published in May 2022 in Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution.
