Genes and Environment: Darwin and Lamark revisited

MAISON FRANÇAISE D'OXFORD

is pleased to announce the following colloquium,
sponsored by the Balliol College, the Science Departments

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GENES AND ENVIRONMENT:

DARWIN AND LAMARCK REVISITED

13 and 14 March

Friday 13 March:   10am - 6pm in the Sherrington Room, Physiology Department

Chair: Tom Melham (Computing Laboratory, Oxford)

Pietro Corsi (Oxford) "What did Lamarck actually say?"

See his text

Eva Jablonka (Tel Aviv) "Evolution in 4 dimensions"

See her texts here and here

Jean-Jacques Kupiec (ENS, Paris) "The origin of individuals"

See his slides

Buffet Lunch

Chair to be confirmed 

Martin Brasier (Oxford) "Darwin's lost world"

Duncan Odom (Cambridge) "Cross-species experiments: what marks the genome?"

texts 1, 2, 3

Tea break

Eric Werner (Oxford) "How Epi is Epigenetics? Or, where is the information for ontogeny and evolution?"

texts 1, 2, 3

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, Denis Noble, Eric Werner, Pietro Corsi:

Closing round table debate introduced by Denis Noble on the theme "Where now?" his text

Buffet Lunch