[alife] call for papers: BES special issue on Darwin and Mathematical Models in Ecology and Evolution

[James Marshall]

Dear colleagues,

In 2010 Springer will publish a special issue of Behavioral Ecology and
Sociobiology, based on the 2009 conference on Mathematical Models in
Ecology and Evolution. The conference and special issue both mark the
bicentennial of Darwin’s birth, and 150 years since the publication of  
The
Origin of Species. The special issue will feature invited papers from  
the
keynote speakers of MMEE 2009:

• Social evolution: progress and problems. Rob Boyd, UCLA
• Evolution of the two sexes. Hanna Kokko, Helsinki
• The origin of species by natural and sexual selection, Franjo  
Weissing,
Groningen
• Mathematising Darwin, Anthony Edwards, Cambridge

We seek an additional 10 to 12 papers on the mathematical modelling of  
key
topics in Darwinian theory, particularly:

• sexual selection
• evolution of social behaviour
• evolution of emotions
• evolution and adaptation
• speciation
• multi-level selection

Submission deadline: January 10th 2010

Please see the flyer for further details: http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/mmee2009/BESflyer.pdf

   Best wishes,
	James Marshall, John McNamara, Alasdair Houston

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James A. R. Marshall
Department of Computer Science
University of Bristol
www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~marshall