Jointly organised by:
11 December 2017 (Epilogue)
Sydney Brenner: The Neutral Clock for the History of Life
Eörs Szathmáry: Difficult Questions about Evolution
Gerd B. Müller: Towards an Extended Evolutionary Synthesis
20 November 2017
Helga Nowotny: A Humble View From Inside Evolution
Stefan Thurner: Why it Could Make Sense to Understand How Evolution Works — Finally — After 10^10 years
13 October 2017
W. Brian Arthur: The Emergence of Technology in Human History
Sander van der Leeuw: The Evolution of Innovation
18 September 2017
Roland Fletcher: Hominin Cultural Evolution: Pattern and Process over 4 Million Years
J. Stephen Lansing: The Challenge of the Anthropocene
14 August 2017
Tecumseh Fitch: The Evolution of the Human Capacity for Language
Nick Enfield: The Evolutions of Language
14 July 2017
Terrence Sejnowski: Evolving Brains
Atsushi Iriki: A Presage of Anthropocene: How the Primate Brain and Its Learning Capacity Co-evolves with the Environment
6 June 2017
Francis Thackeray: Human Evolution in Africa, a Probabilistic Definition of a Species and Sigma Taxonomy
Svante Pääbo: A Neandertal Perspective on the Human Genome
23 May 2017
Byrappa Venkatesh: Evolution and Diversity of Fishes: The Largest Group of Extant Vertebrates
John Long: The Early Evolution of Sex as Told through the Fossil Record
10 April 2017
Detlev Arendt: From Nerve Net to Brain: The Rise of the Urbilaterian in Animal Evolution
Per Ahlberg: The Origin and Early Evolution of Vertebrates: From Jawless Wonders to the Conquest of the Land
13 March 2017
Jack W. Szostak: The Origin of Cellular Life
Hyman Hartman: The Origin of the Genetic Code and Metabolism: From the Eukaryotic Cell to the Carbonaceous Chondrites
21 February 2017
Sydney Brenner: Why We Need to Talk about Evolution
John D. Barrow: The Origin and Evolution of the Universe