Fwd: Consilience Conference
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Fwd: Consilience Conference


Consilience Conference
26 to 28 April 2012
St. Louis, United States

Consilience means integrating knowledge within
the framework of evolutionary biology.

Six speakers each from evolutionary biology, the
evolutionary social sciences, and the humanities,
plus E. O. Wilson's keynote address.

Graduate students and postdoctoral fellows are
invited to submit poster proposals. The deadline
for poster proposals is 15 February 2012.

NINETEEN INVITED SPEAKERS

Keynote Address: Edward O. Wilson,

SIX SPEAKERS FROM BIOLOGY
Herb Gintis
Henry Harpending
John Hawks
Michael Rose
Peter Turchin
David Sloan Wilson

SIX SPEAKERS FROM THE SOCIAL SCIENCES
Christopher Boehm
Pascal Boyer
Robert Frank
David Linden
Dan McAdams
Barb Oakley

SIX SPEAKERS FROM THE HUMANITIES
Brian Boyd
Joseph Carroll
Patricia Churchland
Ellen Dissanayake
Jonathan Gottschall
Massimo Pigliucci

Inquiries: [email protected]
Web address: http://consilienceconference.com/
Sponsored by: University of Missouri--St. Louis





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