Discovery Early Career Researcher Award - Grant ID: DE210100303

Funding Activity

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http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DE210100303

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Active

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Funded Activity Summary

Inheritance and the Emergence of Individuals: From concepts to practice . This project aims to solve a fundamental problem in biology, namely, how entities at one level biological organisation (e.g. single cells) transition or evolve into entities at a higher level (e.g. multicellular organisms). Although several attempts to solve this problem have been made, they are unsatisfactory because they neglect the role of inheritance during the transitions. The project will employ philosophical analysis, formal models, and ultimately experiments with bacteria to understand the role of inheritance during these evolutionary transitions. In doing so, the project will demonstrate that conceptual research by philosophers of biology can make an impactful contribution in biology and answer fundamental questions in this field.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 30-12-2021

End Date: 30-12-2024

Funding Scheme: Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

Funding Amount: $441,200.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science) | Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies

Other Keywords

Evolutionary Biology not elsewhere classified | Expanding Knowledge in Philosophy and Religious Studies | Expanding Knowledge in the Biological Sciences | History and Philosophy Of Specific Fields | History and Philosophy of Science (incl. Non-historical Philosophy of Science)

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