#1329 Pierrick Bourrat: Evolutionary Transitions, Heritability, Adaptation, and Multilevel Selection

Hello, everyone, welcome to a new episode of the The Center. I'm your host, as always, Ricardo Lopes, and today I'm joined by Doctor Pierre Ric Bourat. He's senior lecturer and dekr fellow at Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia. І спеціалізін філозофі о біології. And today we're going to talk about uh topics like evolutionary transitions, individuality from an evolutionary perspective. Heritability adaptation, multi level selection.

the extended evolutionary synthesis and other related topics. So Doctor Buha, welcome to the show. It's a pleasure to have you one. Well it's a pleasure for me to thank you for having me. Okay, great. So let's start with uh evolutionary transitions. I mean, what does that term mean exactly? What do people mean by that? So th what the terms mean evolutionary transition I would say it's quite a vague term.

Uh and I would say Um So the the topic really started to be of uh general interest for biologists with uh the book of um Menaf Smith and Sassmarin in ninety Uh Ninety five, the major transition in evolution. And so it's a broad category and uh this framework has somehow been

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