Join us on 10 June at 6 PM South African Standard Time for a book launch discussion of "Blumenbach’s Racial Classification" led by the book's editors, Victoria Shmidt and Simone De Angelis, with Peter Rohrbacher as a third discussant. See our talk schedule here: www.phil-bio-circle.org/meetings

Our first talk this year was on 14 January 2026 by Kevin Mitchell (Trinity College Dublin, Ireland). The title of his talk was "Autism and the gut microbiome - a case study in bad science". You can see the paper he spoke to us about here: www.cell.com/neuron/fullt...

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