Karl J. Niklas is The Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology emeritus in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University. His research is in plant biophysics and evolution, with a particular focus on the evolution of biomechanics, complexity, and multicellularity. He has written over 400 peer-reviewed articles and five books [Plant Biomechanics 1992, Plant Allometry 1994, The Evolutionary Biology of Plants 1997, Plant Physics (co-authored with Hanns–Christof Spatz) 2012, and Plant Evolution 2016]. Niklas is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Study at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
Karl Joseph Niklas
Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology emeritus, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University
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How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life
This roundtable explores the evolutionary and biological roots of consciousness and emotion, drawing on Joseph LeDoux’s work to reconsider how emotions arise from fundamental survival processes rather than pre-formed states. It brings together perspectives from biology, neuroscience, psychiatry, and philosophy to examine how the brain constructs emotional experience and meaning.