Evolutionary Biology and the Nature of Nature
Monday, April 29, 2024
Online (Zoom)
7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
This guest lecture by Sonia E. Sultan, Professor of Biology at Wesleyan University, will take place online over Zoom.7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
Darwin's idea of Natural Selection explained how small, heritable differences between individual animals and plants would cause adaptive change in their features over time. In the 20th century, this idea was joined to simple Mendelian genetics in a Neo-Darwinian approach that redefined evolution as change in gene frequencies. Although this gene-centric approach remains dominant, new insights to the responsive flexibility of living systems are calling it into question.
View the readings for the lecture here.
Sonia Sultan is Alan M. Dachs Professor of Science at Wesleyan University, where she is on the Biology Faculty and affiliated with the Environmental Studies Program. Sultan’s research examines the interplay between genetic and environmental influences on plant development and the evolutionary implications of this complex interplay. She holds a BA in History and Philosophy of Science from Princeton University and a PhD in Organismic and Evolutionary Biology from Harvard University.
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Time: 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm CET/GMT+1
Location: Online (Zoom)