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Current Researches
Telmo Pievani’s current main research interests are in the field of philosophy of evolutionary biology:
- Philosophy of Biology;
- History of ideas in biological thought;
- The Structure of Evolutionary Theory;
- Gradualism, adaptationism, reductionism, pluralism;
- Punctuated Equilibria Theory;
- Hierarchy Theory of Evolution;
- Multilevel selection;
- The concept of exaptation;
- Structuralism and functionalism in biology;
- Charles Darwin's work and logic of discovery: the Transmutation Notebooks 1836-1844
- Darwin's Heritage in XX and XXI Centuries;
- Stephen J. Gould’s work and heritage;
- Philosophy of epigenetics;
- Nature and nurture problem;
- Human evolution (hominin phylogeny);
- The communication of science in evolutionary fields;
- Science and society in life sciences.
2012-today: member of the Ph.D. programme in Evolutionary Biology at the Department of Biology, University of Padua.