The Geometry of Evolution

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Evolutionary biology raises many unsolved questions: for example, whether evolution can ‘make jumps’, and why evolution often (but not always) leads to increasingly complex organisms. What features should we expect in an evolutionary system? Mathematical models of evolutionary processes are shedding new light on the paradoxical nature of Darwin’s greatest insight.

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This event was on Tue, 20 Jan 1998

Professor Ian Stewart

Professor Ian Stewart FRS

Professor of Geometry

Ian Stewart read Mathematics at Churchill College, Cambridge before completing his doctorate at the University of Warwick where he is now a Professor of Maths...

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