Altenberg meeting
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The Altenberg meeting, which was known as the Altenberg 16 controversy, was a symposium, held in the Konrad Lorenz Institute for Evolution and Cognition Research, in Altenberg, Austria, in the period of 11-13 July 2008, with the participation of 16 evolutionary scientists, and that proposed an extended evolutionary synthesis. The title of the symposium was "Toward an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis?".[1]
The 16 participating scientists
| Participant | Country | University | Selected areas and foci |
|---|---|---|---|
| John Beatty | United States | University of British Columbia, Vancouver | History and Philosophy of Biology, Neutral evolution |
| Werner Callebaut | Belgium | University of Hasselt, Limburgs | Philosophy, Philosophy of Science, Not centrality of genes as causal factors in evolution |
| Sergey Gavrilets | United States | University of Tennessee | Mathematics, ecology, population genetics, adaptive landscapes |
| Eva Jablonka | Israel | Tel Aviv University | Systems of genetic inheritance and epigenetic, behavioral and cultural evolution |
| David Jablonski | United States | University of Chicago | Geophysics, biogeography, Macro-evolution, nonrandom innovations |
| Marc Kirschner | United States | Harvard University | Systems biology, evolutionary developmental biology |
| Alan Love | United States | University of Minnesota | Philosophy of evolutionary theory, philosophy of science, Developmental Biology |
| Gerd B. Müller | Austria | Universidade de Viena | Theoretical biology, evolutionary developmental biology, phenotypic Innovation, Evolution of developmental processes |
| Stuart A. Newman | United States | New York Medical College | cell biology, Developmental Biology, Anatomy, Evolutionary Biology Physics, Evolution of Metazoa, Complexity theory |
| John Odling-Smee | Grã-Bretanha | Oxford University | Behavioral Biology, Niche construction theory in ecology, Inheritance |
| Massimo Pigliucci | United States | Stony Brook University | Biology and Philosophy. Philosophy of Biology, Macro-evolution, Innovation, Role of phenotypic plasticity in macroevolution |
| Michael Purugganan | Filipinas | New York University | Biology, Genetics, Genomic Networks, Evolutionary Genomics |
| Eörs Szathmáry | Hungary | Collegium Budapest | Genetic and epigenetic heredity, evolution of language, theory of evolution, Major evolutionary transitions |
| Günter Wagner | United States | Yale University | Emergence of morphological characteristics in evolutionary development, Concept of evolvability |
| David Sloan Wilson | United States | Binghamton University | Theory of multilevel selection, group selection Idea |
| Gregory Wray | United States | Duke University | Developmental biology, expression of embryonic genes, genomic networks, gene regulation networks |
References
- ↑ Mazur, Suzan (2010). The Altenberg 16: An Exposé of the Evolution Industry. Berkeley, California: North Atlantic Books. p. v. ISBN 978-1-55643-924-7.
Bibliography
- Mazur, Suzan (2009): The Altenberg 16 An Exposé of the Evolution Industry. Berkeley, California
- Pigliucci, Massimo & Müller, Gerd B. (Hg.) (2010): Evolution – The Extended Synthesis. MIT Press
