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Evolution and sustainability: gathering the strands for an Anthropocene synthesis compiled and edited by Peter Sogaard Jorgensen, Timothy M Waring and Vanessa P Weinberger and the articles can be FREELY accessed directly at www.bit.ly/PTB1893

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Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution, by Cat Bohannon, from Vintage Canada, (Mar 21).

Birds, Sex and Beauty: The Extraordinary Implications of Charles Darwin's Strangest Idea, by Matt Ridley, from Harper. (Mar 7).

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ITALIAN SOCIETY FOR EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY Congress
6-10 September 2026, Firenze, Italy
-----------1 week left to submit your abstract------------------
Dear friends and colleagues,
this is a friendly reminder that there is still 1 week left to submit your abstract for the SIBE Evoluzione 2026 Congress. We look forward to your contributions!
The congress will take place in Firenze from 6 to 10 September. The scientific program will be organized around the following symposia:
Symposium 1 “Host–microbiome interactions”
Symposium 2 “Evolutionary roots of behavioural diversity”
Symposium 3 “Phylogeography and Conservation Genomics: understanding evolutionary history to sustain species resilience”
Symposium 4 “Human evolution”
Symposium 5 “The evolution of ecological diversification: mechanisms, interactions, and outcomes”
Symposium 6 “Evolutionary biology without borders”
Each symposium will open with a plenary lecture by an international invited speaker, including Stephen Palumbi, Mihai Netea, David Caramelli, Martin Giurfa, Jacintha Ellers, Mirte Bosse, and Maurizio Mencuccini.
In addition to the scientific sessions, the congress will offer several events, including a dedicated poster session, a free crash course on wet-lab techniques in genomics, the meeting of the Italian Group for Conservation Genetics and Genomics, the original outreach theatre event “Botanica Queer”, and a social dinner at the Florence Botanical Garden.
The congress will take place across several venues in the city. All scientific sessions will be held in the Novoli district, at the University’s Social Sciences Campus, while social events and the poster session will take place in the historic city centre. Participants may therefore choose to stay either in the city centre or in Novoli, two areas conveniently connected by the tram line.
Please note that the last tram runs at around 00:30; after this time, public transportation options become more limited.
September is a high season for tourism in Florence, and other conferences are scheduled in the Novoli area during the same period. We therefore strongly recommend booking accommodation well in advance.
For further details about Evoluzione 2026, please visit the website:
www.sibe-iseb.it/firenze2026
We look forward to welcoming many of you to Firenze,
The Organizing and Scientific Committee

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