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A Philosophical Analysis of Fitness Commensurability. Case study: Evolutionary Transitions in Individuality

2017/27/B/HS1/00290

Keywords:

fitness evolutionary transitions individuality,

Descriptors:

  • HS1_4: Logic, science methodology, philosophy of science

Panel:

HS1 - Fundamental questions of human existence and the nature of reality: philosophy, cognition, religious studies, theology

Host institution :

Uniwersytet Jagielloński, Wydział Filozoficzny

woj. małopolskie

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Principal investigator (from the host institution):

Adrian Stencel 

Number of co-investigators in the project: 1

Call: OPUS 14 - announced on 2017-09-15

Amount awarded: 452 620 PLN

Project start date (Y-m-d): 2018-08-27

Project end date (Y-m-d): 2021-08-26

Project duration:: 36 months (the same as in the proposal)

Project status: Project settled

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  • Publication in academic press/journals (8)
  1. Does inheritance need a rethink? Introducing the reconstitutor as the unit of heredity
    Authors:
    Sophie Veigl, Javier Suarez, Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    Synthese (rok: 2022, tom: 367, strony: 0), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11229-022-03810-y - link to the publication
  2. How many ways you can die? Multiple Biological Deaths as a Consequence of theMultiple Concepts of an Organism
    Authors:
    Piotr Nowak, Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics (rok: 2022, tom: 43, strony: 127–154), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s11017-022-09583-2 - link to the publication
  3. The Failure of Drug Repurposing for COVID-19 as an Effect of Excessive Hypothesis Testing and Weak Mechanistic Evidence
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel i Mariusz Maziarz
    Academic press:
    History and Philosophy of Life Sciences (rok: 2022, tom: 44, strony: 0), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s40656-022-00532-9 - link to the publication
  4. Do seasonal microbiome changes affect infection susceptibility, contributing to seasonal disease outbreaks?
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    Bioessays (rok: 2021, tom: 43(1), strony: 2000148), Wydawca: Wiley
    Status:
    Published
  5. Establishing the Conditions for Reducing Ecological Fitness to Reproductive Output
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    diametros , Wydawca: springer
    Status:
    Submitted
  6. INHERITANCE WITHOUT 1 TRANSMISSION? – RECONSTITUTION IS A HEREDITARY PROCESS
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel, Sophie Veigl, Javier Suarez
    Academic press:
    genetics , Wydawca: oxford academic press
    Status:
    Submitted
  7. Do Somatic Cells Really Sacrifice Themselves? Why an Appeal to Coercion May be a Helpful Strategy in Explaining the Evolution of Multicellularity
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel and Javier Suarez
    Academic press:
    Biological Theory (rok: 2021, ), Wydawca: Springer
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.1007/s13752-021-00376-9 - link to the publication
  8. Why the Evolution of Heritable Symbiosis neither Enhances nor Diminishes the Fitness of a Symbiont
    Authors:
    Adrian Stencel
    Academic press:
    Philosophy, Theory, and Practice in Biology (numer specjalny redagowany przez prof Derek Skillings) (rok: 2022, tom: 4, strony: 0), Wydawca: Michigan Publishing
    Status:
    Published
    DOI:
    10.3998/ptpbio.2098 - link to the publication