Date: Friday 13 Mar 2009 - 10:00 to Saturday 14 Mar 2009 - 13:00
Place: Maison Française d'Oxford
Research programme: History of Science
Friday 13 March:Â Â Â 10am - 6pm in the Sherrington Room, Physiology Department
Chair: Tom Melham (Computing Laboratory, Oxford)
Pietro Corsi (Oxford) "What did Lamarck actually say?"
Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv) "Evolution in 4 dimensions"
See her texts here and here
Jean-Jacques Kupiec (ENS, Paris) "The origin of individuals"
Buffet Lunch
Chair to be confirmedÂ
Martin Brasier (Oxford) "Darwin's lost world"
Duncan Odom (Cambridge) "Cross-species experiments: what marks the genome?"
Tea break
Eric Werner (Oxford) "How Epi is Epigenetics? Or, where is the information for ontogeny and evolution?"
Lynn Margulis (Amherst/Oxford) "The origin of species"
See her texts here and here
Saturday 14 March:  10am - 1pm at the Maison Française d'Oxford
Chair: Serge Plattard (Science and Technology Counsellor, French Embassy)
Evelyn Fox Keller (MIT/Oxford) "Self-Organization, Self-Assembly, and the Inherent activity of matter"
Jonathan Bard (Edinburgh) "Lamarck and Waddington revisited: adaptation and the neo-Darwinian synthesis"
Evelyn Fox Keller, Denis Noble, Eric Werner, Pietro Corsi:
Closing round table debate introduced by Denis Noble on the theme "Where now?" his text
Buffet Lunch
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