Cassandra Yang
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Cassandra Yang
@cassandrazieyang.bsky.social
PhD student in History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge. Former developmental biologist🐠, amateur beekeeper🐝
Reading group alert!🔔 This term, our History and Philosophy of Biology reading group will be reading 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘯𝘵𝘰𝘨𝘦𝘯𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘐𝘯𝘧𝘰𝘳𝘮𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 (2000) by Susan Oyama. Online participants welcome! More details here: www.hps.cam.ac.uk/news-events/...
October 8, 2025 at 1:28 AM
#ISHPSSB2025
Porto is beautiful. Met wonderful people, had engaging conversations, and shared some single-sourced honey with friends old and new 🐝🍯
July 25, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Reposted by Cassandra Yang
Fascinating historical review of Lala et al's "Evolution Evolving" book by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social

See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...

#evolution
The causal role of constructive development in evolution
doi.org
June 23, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Reposted by Cassandra Yang
A really thoughtful and inciteful review of my book "Evolution Evolving" by @cassandrazieyang.bsky.social in Bioscience.

"By taking into account the structure of development, we can begin to envision how the system of evolution will itself be evolving."

See BioScience doi.org/10.1093/bios...
June 23, 2025 at 10:03 AM