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SUMMARY:Faculty Emeriti Association Lecture
DESCRIPTION:
 Professor Robert T. Pennock, Lyman Briggs College, 
 the Philosophy Department, the Department 
 of Computer Science, and the Ecology, Evolutionary 
 Biology and Behavior graduate program, 
 "Evolution in Action: Observing Evolutionary 
 Processes in Real Time."  \n
 Abstract: 
 The common view of the general public about 
 evolution is antiquated.  Creationists continue 
 to think that there is no evidence for 
 evolution, but even members of the public who 
 accept it often think that our scientific understanding 
 of evolution comes just from fossils. 
  Such confusions arise in part from a misunderstanding 
 of the role of observation in 
 scientific reasoning.  This talk focuses on 
 the nature of observational evidence and on recent 
 advances in evolutionary modeling, using 
 both natural and digital organisms, that have 
 allowed scientists to directly investigate 
 the mechanisms of evolution as they operate 
 in the present.\n
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 Price: free\n
 Sponsor: public\n
 Contact name: John Forsyth\n
 Contact email: FORSYTH@MSU.EDU\n
 for more info visit the web at:\n 
 http://fod.msu.edu/FacEmeriti/lectures.asp\n
LOCATION:Radiology Auditorium
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