We Were Never Individual: How Symbionts and Hives Pervade Our Lives

Time: 6:00pm

Location: Chemical Heritage Foundation

Symbiosis rules and we are all lichens. What would “individual selection” entail if there were no real “individuals” to select? Do we have to formulate a new type of selection, and how does the whole prevent its parts from cheating?

This talk is a part of the 2012 Gordon Cain Conference, “E pluribus unum: Bringing biological parts and wholes into historical and philosophical perspective.” The conference, organized by Lynn Nyhart (University of Wisconsin, Madison) and Scott Lidgard (Field Museum, Chicago), will also include a closed workshop at CHF in May of 2012 that is intended to produce papers for an edited volume.

This event is free and open to the public, but registration is required.