EVOLUTION AS A UNIFYING THEME ACROSS BIOLOGY, THE HUMAN SCIENCES, AND THE HUMANITIES

APRIL 26-28, 2012

The University of Missouri- St. Louis will host the Consilience Conference which will bring together leaders from around the world for three days to identify major changes taking place in each field, discuss future directions of research and maximize the interaction among biology, social sciences and humanities researchers

KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Dr. Edward O. Wilson
His career has alternated between doing world-class work in specialized biological subjects- entomology, island biogeography, and ecology- and synthesizing ideas across the broadest spectrum of intellectual life.  In Consilience: The Unity of Knowledge (1998), he sounded the keynote theme of this conference: the idea that evolutionary biology encompasses the social sciences and the humanities and thus unifies knowledge about human behavior and culture.  In recent years, he has taken a leading role in advancing a new paradigm shift in evolutionary biology: the ascendance of “multi-level selection.”  His forthcoming book, The Social Conquest of Earth, integrates ideas from all this previous work.   

In response to numerous requests from people who would like to hear Edward O. Wilson’s keynote speech during the Consilience Conference, UMSL is making tickets available for his presentation, which will take place on Thursday, April 26 from 8:30 a.m. – 9:30 a.m.  The fee for this single session of the Conference is $25.00. Register by phone by calling Erica Candela at 314-516-5908.            

http://consilienceconference.com/