We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Arun Chavan, to the KLI. Arun is a developmental evolutionary biologist at Yale School of Medicine. At the KLI, he works on his project “Evolutionary Origin of Vertebrate Digestive Organs”.

We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Elisa Dominguez Hüttinger, to the KLI. Elisa is a theoretical systems biologist at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), working on modeling epithelial homeostasis as an emergent property.

We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Tomasz Szubart, to the KLI. Tomasz is a philosopher of cognitive science at the University of Szczecin. At the KLI, he works on his project “Music as Natural Content: A Teleosemantic Account of Musical Meaning Across Biological, Cognitive and Cultural Levels”.

Silvia BULGHERESI (University of Vienna), June 11, 2026, 15:00 (CEST). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Juan Vila, to the KLI. Juan is a philosopher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council in Argentina. At the KLI, he works on his project “One of a Kind: Biological, Metaphysical and Ethical Dimensions of Population Thinking”.

James DIFRISCO (Francis Crick Institute, London), May 28, 2026, 15:00 (CEST). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

In a recent publication in PloS One, KLI senior postdoc fellow Anne Le Maître and KLI alumna Lumila Menéndez argue for more sustainable and ethical practices for the study of anthropological collections. (click on title to continue)

KLI fellow Anne Le Maître, Editor-in-Chief of the journal Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris (BMSAP), together with Bérénice Chamel (Institut Français du Proche-Orient, Beyrouth, Lebanon), coordinated the new issue of this journal. (Click on title to continue)

Somya MANI (KLI), May 21, 2026, 15:00 (CET). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

We warmly welcome our Visiting Fellow, Nina Kraus, back to the KLI. Nina is a researcher in evolutionary developmental biology and will work on her project “Constructed Environments and the Evolution of the Heart: An Evo-Devo Account of Environmentally Regulated Development” at the KLI.

We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Daniel Reznik, to the KLI. Daniel is a neuroscientist at the Max Planck Society in Germany. At the KLI, he works on his project “The Evolution of Episodic Construction”.

Daniel REZNIK (Max Planck Society), May 7, 2026, 15:00 (CEST). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

In a recent article in Biological Theory, Philipp Mitteroecker questions traditional concepts of measurement error in biology. (click on title to continue)

Isabella SARTO-JACKSON (KLI), April 30, 2026, 15:00 (CEST). Please join our colloquium via Zoom!

Barbara Fischer (KLI Group Leader for Evolutionary Biology) was interviewed for an episode of a podcast produced by Springer Medicine Vienna with the title “Evolutionärer Pfusch? Die enge Passform bei der menschlichen Geburt” (Click on the title to read more.)

A recent paper co-authored by Barbara Fischer discusses whether classic bony pelvic features can reliably indicate a history of pregnancy and childbirth (click on title to continue)

In a new article in the Journal of the History of Biology, KLI postdoctoral fellow Marcelo Domingos de Santis challenges the conventional narrative of the systematics wars. (click on title to continue)

We warmly welcome our new Visiting Fellow, Pierrick Bourrat, to the KLI. Pierrick is a philosopher of biology at Macquarie University, Sydney. At the KLI, he works on his project “Linking Fitness and Evolvability Across Levels of Description”.

KLI senior postdoc fellow Anne Le Maître gave a science outreach presentation on 23 March 2026 at the Republikanischer Club in Vienna on the functions and evolution of the ear.

Biological Theory’s March Issue 21(1) is out now. Click on the title to read more and access the free reading links for all the articles.