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  • 2nd CALL FOR STUDENTS: 1st International Winter School on Evolution

    March 11th – 15th, 2013 | Ciência Viva Knowledge Pavilion, Lisbon, Portugal

    Website: http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt<http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt/>

    We are happy to inform you that registration is now open for the 1st
    International Winter School on Evolution. Courses are open to international
    Master, PhD and Post-doctoral students in the exact, life, human and
    sociocultural evolutionary sciences.

    About the courses

    From Monday to Friday, parallel sessions are organized whereby visiting
    staff provide a 10-hour course (2 hours a day) on critical aspects of
    biological and sociocultural evolution. The courses are centered around the
    following modules.

    Module 1: Macroevoluton and the Major Evolutionary Transitions
    Courses are taught by: Bruce Lieberman, Folmer Bokma, Eörs Szathmáry.

    Module 2: Language Evolution
    Courses are taught by William Croft, Mónica Tamariz, Daniel Dor.

    Module 3: Symbiogenesis, Lateral Gene Transfer and Virolution
    Courses are taught by Douglas Zook, William Martin, Michael Arnold.

    All courses are taught at a level accessible to Master, PhD and
    post-doctoral students in the exact, life, human and sociocultural
    evolutionary sciences. Students of evolutionary biology, microbiology,
    paleontology, evolutionary linguistics, evolutionary anthropology, and
    philosophy of biology will especially benefit from these courses.

    Students will be provided a mandatory reading list which will form the basis
    of lectures and discussions. There are neither examinations nor paper
    assignments.

    REGISTRATION FEE

    350 euro for the whole week, regardless the number of courses you choose.

    HOW TO ENROLL

    You can enroll for a specific module (therefore following a 30-hour course
    on the subject) or you may choose three courses of your specific interest.
    Places are limited, we therefore advise you to enroll as quickly as
    possible.

    About the Winter School

    The School is organized by the Applied Evolutionary Epistemology Lab of the
    Centre for Philosophy of Science of the University of Lisbon, in
    collaboration with Ciência Viva and with the support of the John Templeton
    Foundation.

    DOWNLOAD OUR POSTER

    http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt/winter/docs/winter.pdf

    SUBSCRIBE TO THE WINTER SCHOOL MAILINGLIST

    http://eepurl.com/n2ELH

    Websites

    http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt<http://evolutionschool.fc.ul.pt/>, http://appeel.fc.ul.pt<http://appeel.fc.ul.pt/>

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