Species in the Age of Discordance
Species in the Age of Discordance
March 23rd - 25th, 2018
Biological lineages move through time, space, and each other. As they do, they diversify, diverge, and grade away from and into one another. One result of this is genealogical discordance, i.e., the lineages of a biological entity may have different histories. We see this on many levels, from microbial networks, to holobionts, to population-level lineages.
The focus of this project is whether and how this and other sorts of biological discordance impacts our views on species. To promote a cross-disciplinary examination of this question, investigators from a variety of fields will participate in a series of interdisciplinary meetings. This includes researchers working on phylogenetics, microbiology, symbiosis, population genetics, taxonomy, philosophy, and history.
The Utah meeting is the first of three meetings on this topic. Follow up sessions are tentatively planned for the 2017 Evolution Meeting (Portland, OR) and the 2017 ISHPSSB Meeting (Sao Paulo, Brazil). The Utah meeting will be a mix of invited and refereed papers and posters.
If you would like to participate, please submit an abstract here. Questions? Please contact Dan Molter or Matt Haber.
Quentin Wheeler (SUNY ESF)
Gunnar Babcock
Discordance in the Species Category
Ana Barahona (UNAM)
The scientific conception of species and its impact on popular representations of
human taxonomy and evolution in Mexican visual culture
Matt Barker
Lineages, Species, and Positive Feedback Systems
Austin Booth (Dalhousie University)
Frédéric Bouchard (University of Montreal)
Jerzy Brzozowski
Species Names in the Age of Discordance
Evan Buechley & Cagan Sekercioglu
The Avian Scavenger Crisis: Looming extinctions, trophic cascades, and loss of critical
ecosystem functions
Sarah Bush & Dale Clayton
Experimental Adaptive Radiation - Genomics of Diversification in Bird Lice
Justin Bzovy
Four Pluralist Solutions to the Species Category Problem
Elizabeth Callaway
Phylogenetic Supertrees and Narrative in an Age of Mass Extinction
Patrice Showers Corneli
Incorporating Phylogenetic Uncertainty Within Higher Order Taxonomic Names
Ford Doolittle (Dalhousie University)
The Prokaryotic Species Problem is Even Worse
John Dupré (Exeter University)
What Species Are Individuals?
Marc Ereshefsky (University of Calgary)
‘Species’ Begone? A Lesson in Pluralism and Pragmatism Against Origin Essentialism
Leonard Finkelman (Linfield College)
What, if anything, is a "Tyrannosaurus rex"?
Jean-François Flot
Sidestepping genealogical discordance: allele sharing as a basis for species delimitation
Matt Hahn (Indiana University)
The Procrustean bed of the species tree
Frank Hailer (Cardiff University)
David Hillis (University of Texas)
Lacey Knowles (University of Michigan)
Hidden forests in the trees: erroneous species boundaries from genomic approaches
Wayne Maddison (University of British Columbia)
Actors and products in species concepts
James Mallet (Harvard University)
Eukaryotic species exist, but not in the way we predicted they should
Mary Mendoza (University of Vermont)
Roberta Millstein (UC Davis)
Grey Wolves and the Endangered Species Act: Concordance All the Way Down
Brent Mishler (UC Berkeley)
Discordance is telling us something about "species"
Dan Molter and Jacob Stegenga
Population Pluralism and Multispecies Units of Evolution
Nalini Nadkami (University of Utah)
Harmonizing values in an age of discordance through tapestry thinking: species, society,
and synergisms
Marco Nathan
Pluralism is the Answer! What is the Question?
Celso Neto (University of Calgary)
Cohesion in the Age of Discordance
Aleta Quinn (Smithsonian Institute)
Concatenation, Coalescence, and Concatalescence: Conceptual Disputes in Phylogenetic
Inference
Olivier Rieppel (Field Museum)
The Brown Bear and The Polar Bear: Species Individuality and Monophyly
Erica Torrens Rojas (UNAM)
Jason Sexton (UC Merced)
The adaptive continuum
Ayelet Shavit (Tel-Hai College)
It takes one to know one: involved philosophy and scientific replication
Derek Skillings
Making sense of lineage integration and discordance in host-microbe symbioses
Ian Smith
Hybridization, Hennig, and the Species-as-Individuals Hypothesis
Daniel Spalink, Kevin Stoffel, Allen Van Deynze and Lynn Bohs
Spiciness in the age of discordance: genome-scale patterns of incongruence in the
phylogeny of peppers and relatives (Capsicum/Lycianthes, Solanaceae)
Richard Javier Stephenson
Paleontological Census and Unclear Taxa
Beckett Sterner (ASU)
Jeet Sukumaran
Hidden forests in the trees: erroneous species boundaries from genomic approaches
Joel Velasco
Foundations of Concordance Views of Phylogeny
Francisco Vergara-Silva
Folkbiology, species concepts, and multispecies ethnography
Jeannette Whitton (Department of Botany, UBC)
Actors and products in species concepts
Olga Zhaxybayeva
The Prokaryotic Species Problem is Even Worse
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Thank you to our Sponsors:
National Science Foundation (NSF) Award #1557117
Department of Philosophy
Center for Latin American Studies
Tanner Humanities Center
Environmental Humanities
Department of Biology
College of Humanities Dean of Research
University of Utah Vice President of Research
The American West Center
The Deparment of History
