Form, Function and Homology:

Duke's 8th Annual Conference in Philosophy & Biology and the Annual
Consortium for the History and Philosophy of Biology

May 22nd - 24th, 2009
Duke University
Durham, NC

Keynote Speakers:

Ingo Brigandt (University of Alberta)
Karen Neander (Duke University)
Karl J. Niklas (Cornell University)
Richard A. Richards (The University of Alabama)
Louise V. Roth (Duke University)
Roger Sansom (Texas A&M University)

All talks will be in the French Family Science Center Rm 2231

Schedule/Program

The topic of this year's conference is homology and function in
systematic taxonomy in evolution and development. Homologous traits are
similar due to their shared ancestry, although this ancestry can be
evolutionary or developmental. Function is an important concept for
homology, and we hope to research this relationship.

This year we will combine two confereces: The annual Consortium for the
History and Philosophy of Biology (CHPB), which involves philosophers
and biologists from three other institutions--Universtiy of Paris,
University of Montreal, and University of Toronto--and has met annually
for the last three years, and Duke's 8th Annual Conference in Philosophy
and Biology.

PLEASE REGISTER FOR FREE BY MAY 15TH 

For more information about the conference and to register, please see
http://web.duke.edu/philosophy/bio/conference.html

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