MONDAY MAY 25 |
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast & Registration
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| 08:50 | Opening Remarks
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| DARWINIAN SCIENCE
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| 09:00 | Dan Brooks
- ABSTRACT
Darwinism: The First Modern Complexity Theory |
| 10:00 | Break
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| 10:30 | Lee Smolin
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| 11:00 | Jon Stone
- ABSTRACT
On the Origin of Sciences
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| 11:20 | Maria Abou Chakra
- ABSTRACT
Using Bubbles To Model The Growth Of Sea Urchin Skeletons |
| 11:40 | David Smillie
- ABSTRACT
Evolution and Popular Culture: Darwin on the Box |
| 12:00 | Lunch
(hosted by graduate students at The Pheonix Pub)
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| SELECTION (NATURAL, SEXUAL, & KIN)
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| 14:00 | Mark Rausher
- ABSTRACT
Rausher: The Genes Evolution Uses |
| 15:00 | Break
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| 15:30 | Susan Dudley
- ABSTRACT
A Natural History of Plant Kin Recognition |
| 16:10 | Presentation
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| 18:30 | Conference Social (Slainte Irish Pub)
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TUESDAY MAY 26 |
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast & Registration
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| PALEONTOLOGY
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| 09:00 | James Valentine
- ABSTRACT
Amassing the Molecular Toolkits for Crown Metazoan Diversity |
| 10:00 | Break
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| 10:30 | Wolfgang Kiessling
- ABSTRACT
Natural selection during mass extinction episodes |
| 11:00 | Henry Schwarcz
- ABSTRACT
Darwin, earthworms, and the evolution of soil |
| 11:50 | Discussion
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| 12:00 | Lunch
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| EVOLUTION & DEVELOPMENT
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| 14:00 | Brian Hall
- ABSTRACT
Charles Darwin and Evo-Devo |
| 15:00 | Break
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| 15:30 | Una-May O'Reilly
- ABSTRACT
Genr8: Development in Evolutionary Computation |
| 16:20 | Josh Bongard
- ABSTRACT
Evo-devo for robotics, and robotics for evo-devo |
| 16:40 | Poster Session / Wine & Cheese (17:00)
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| 20:00 | Public Lecture (Steve Benner)
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WEDNESDAY MAY 27 |
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast & Registration
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| COGNITION
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| 09:00 | Marla Sokolowski
- ABSTRACT
Genes and Behaviour: Foraging from Flies to Humans |
| 10:00 | Break
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| 10:40 | Jeff Galef
- ABSTRACT
Tests of Two Predictions from Formal Darwinian Models: Social Learning in Unproductive and Dissatisfied Norway Rats
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| 11:00 | Scott Forschler
- ABSTRACT
Naturalistic Normativity: Bridging the Explanatory-Justificatory Gap |
| 11:20 | John Colarusso
- ABSTRACT
The Evolutuion of Language |
| 11:40 | Robert Logan
- ABSTRACT
The Extended Mind: The Emergence of Language, the Human Mind and Culture |
| 12:00 | Lunch
(cafeteria or box for excursion to Niagara Falls, Winery Dinner)
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| 12:30 | Excursion to Niagara Falls / Winery Dinner
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THURSDAY MAY 28 |
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast & Registration
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| SPECIATION & ADAPTATION
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| 09:00 | Mark Wineberg
- ABSTRACT
Title TBA |
| 09:50 | Discussion
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| 10:00 | Break
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| 11:00 | Gesseca Gos
- ABSTRACT
Conditional neutrality at two adjacent NBS-LRR disease resistance loci in Arabidopsis lyrata |
| 11:20 | Kevin Abbott
- ABSTRACT
Adaptive cognitive strategies, signal detection theory, and the evolution of floral colour |
| 11:40 | Discussion
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| 12:00 | Lunch
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| MOLECULAR EVOLUTION
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| 14:00 | Steve Benner
- ABSTRACT
Resurrecting the Past. Paleogenetics, ecosystems, and evolutionary adaptation |
| 15:00 | Break
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| 15:30 | Dipankar Sen
- ABSTRACT
Unusual catalytic activities of nucleic acids: primordial relevance? |
| 16:00 | Yingfu Li
- ABSTRACT
Population dynamics of RNA-cleaving deoxyribozymes created by test-tube evolution |
| 16:20 | Denys deCatanzaro
- ABSTRACT
Males’ excreted estrogens alter uterine physiology, sexual development, and fertility in proximate female mice |
| 16:40 | Poster Session
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| 18:30 | Conference Banquet
(Royal Botanical Gardens)
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FRIDAY MAY 29 |
| 08:00 | Continental Breakfast & Registration
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| EMERGENT COMPLEXITY
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| 09:00 | Hani Zaher
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| 09:50 | Discussion
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| 10:00 | Break
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| 10:30 | Malcolm Heywood
- ABSTRACT
Emergent Complexity in Coevolutionary Model Building |
| 11:20 | Kari Dalnoki-Veress
- ABSTRACT
The emergence of complex pattern formation on the nanoscale |
| 12:00 | Lunch
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| ORIGINS OF LIFE & ASTROBIOLOGY
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| 14:00 | Robert Geddes
- ABSTRACT
Martian Microbes, Dawson and Darwin |
| 14:20 | Paul Higgs
- ABSTRACT
How natural selection created an optimized genetic code |
| 14:40 | Discussion
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| 15:00 | Break
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| 15:30 | Wolfgang Banzhaf
- ABSTRACT
From Artificial Evolution to Computational Evolution |
| 16:00 | David Deamer
- ABSTRACT
First life, and next life: The origins and synthesis of living cells |
| 17:00 | Closing Remarks
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| 18:59 | BBQ
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| 20:00 | Benefit Concert for Sevalaya (Indian Music) |
