Wednesday, November 3, 4:00-6:00 pm, Gradroom at Grad House, 66 Harbord St, Toronto. All are welcome. No advance registration is required. Presentations: Why hasn’t natural selection made us immortal? Arvid Ågren (Ecology & Evolutionary Biology) Only around 100 years ago, the Western world had a life expectancy 25 years lower than today. This was the […]
Tags: anthropology, cancer, death, Ecology, Evolutionary Biology, Freud, gender, illness, natural selection, Queerness, women
On Death, November 3 2010 (Our Annual Halloween edition!)
On Darwin, February 11 2009
Darwin the Computer Scientist Paul Grouchy (Institute for Aerospace Studies) With the recent explosion in computational power, scientists are now able to apply evolutionary concepts in ways that Darwin himself could never have dreamed of.? This presentation will provide an overview of how computer scientists are using artificial evolution to solve a wide variety of […]
Tags: aerospace, computer science, Darwin, English, Evolutionary Biology, natural selection, sociality, uselessness