Epistemology of Nature

I have started a new course BIOCIVILISATIONS: Becoming Citizens of a Biological Multiverse. The course can be accessed at Advaya.com Here are excerpts from the first two weeks of the course from YouTube How nature […]

Watch this short video filmed in Conway Hall in April 2023. I am grateful to Holly Elson and the team for their enthusiasm.    

Humans weren’t the first engineers, doctors and farmers – bacteria, plants and animals have lots to teach us Published on The Conversation, April 19, 2023 12.22pm BST There are hidden worlds in nature. PeopleImages.com/Yuri A/Shutterstock   Life […]

While attending a meeting in Paris in March 2023, I was interviewed by Robert Cibis, a journalist from Oval Media. Here is the interview which touches on details of biocivilisations. Dr. Predrag Slijepcevic | NARRATIVE […]

Review by James A. Shapiro Predrag Slijepčević’s Biocivilisations (Chelsea Green Publishing, White River Junction, Vermont, USA; London, UK) is an unusually thought-provoking and ambitious book. It challenges the reader to abandon several centuries of assumptions about […]

Are we alone in the universe? The famous Seti (Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) programme has been trying to answer this question since 1959. American astronomer Carl Sagan, and many others, believed that other human-like civilisations […]

Republished from The Conversation https://theconversation.com/bacteria-and-viruses-are-travelling-the-world-on-highways-in-the-sky-142854 Microbes are the truly dominant group of lifeforms. These invisible pieces of biogenic matter have been running Earth’s affairs for billions of years. Plants and animals popped up as the […]

The biosphere is a truly vast cosmic cloud dominated by microbes. Even though this biosphere description places us, other animals, and plants in the evolutionary back corner, it tallies with the history of life. Microbes, […]