Dear colleagues, We would like to invite you to the next online seminar for the "Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation" Special Topic Network (STN) funded by the European Society for Evolutionary Biology, which will take place on September 19th at 13:00 UTC (i.e., 1400 in London, 1500 in Amsterdam, 2200 in Tokyo, 0900 in New York, 0600 in Los Angeles, etc.). Our speakers for this seminar are: Laurence Hurst (University of Bath): What a piece of work is the human embryo Phil Madgwick (Syngenta): Maladaptation: natural selection in the wrong direction? We expect the meeting to take approximately 1.5 hours. Meeting details: Link: https://georgetown.zoom.us/j/98175742214?jst=2 Date: September 19th, 2025 Time: 13:00 UTC If you would like to get on our mailing list and take part in our upcoming events, please visit our website ( https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/) for more information. Sincerely, Manus Patten, Arvid �gren, Thomas Hitchcock, Martijn Schenkel, and Nina Wedell The Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation STN -- ESEB-funded Special Topic Network "Internal Conflicts and Organismal Adaptation" https://internalconflictsstn.wordpress.com/ https://eseb.org/prizes-funding/special-topic-networks/ Internal Conflicts STN (to subscribe/unsubscribe the EvolDir send mail to golding@mcmaster.ca)