Evandro Agazzi, Italian philosopher and logician; Carlo Bellieni, Professor of Pediatrics, University of Siena; Pier Francesco Ferrari, Director of the Marc Jeannerod Institute of Cognitive Sciences, CNRS, Lyon; Lourdes Velazquez, Professor of Philosophy and Bioethics, Panamerican University (Mexico). Introduced by Letizia Bardazzi, President of the Italian Association of Cultural Centers

Can the environment interfere with DNA? Is there an adaptation to the environment that acts on the genome? And what are the consequences in the onset of tumors and other diseases? Many phenomena in nature show that mutations do not occur only by chance, struggle, and selection but also by adaptability, acceptance, and altruism.