Other Scientific Events
Evolution Revolution: Science Changing Life
A Public Symposium at Emory University on October 23 and 24, 2008.The symposium will explore the future of evolution as a theory and a process and the potential of recent research to transform our lives. The public event is designed to be accessible to a wide audience.
Keynote address by E.O. Wilson on “Darwin and the Future of Biology,” October 23, 7 PM
On Friday, October 24, New York Times Columnist, Olivia Judson, will speak on communicating research in the life sciences to a wide audience in a talk entitled, “The Art of Seduction” Leading Emory and Georgia Tech scientists will explore such issues as how our evolutionary inheritance affects our emotions, values, and mental make-up; how the interaction between genes and environment affects our health; and how research into the origins of life is providing us with new knowledge and tools to engineer evolutionary processes with enormous.
This public symposium comes in anticipation of the bicentennial of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 2009 and is organized by Emory’s Computational and Life Sciences Strategic Initiative.
For more information, please see: www.emory.edu/evolution