From: Duff,Robert Joel (rjduff@uakron.edu)
Date: Tue Nov 11 2003 - 09:36:01 EST
Hi,
Back in May there was some discussion about a paper that came out in
Nature entitled "The evolutionary origin of complex features" that
examined that question with digital organisms. I have a colleague in
the department that knows all four of the authors of that paper. Last
fall we had Rich Lenski come for a seminar and now this Thursday we are
hosting Dr. Charles Ofria for a seminar entitled:
"The evolutionary origin of complex traits in digital organisms" Ofria
is apparently the investigator that actually set up the digital
organisms and did much of the analyses. For those in the Akron OH area
I would invite you to come to the seminar (Thursday Nov 13, 4:00pm
Auburn Science and Engineering Center room 122). There will be time for
discussion after the seminar and an informal get together in the
evening.
If anyone has any particular questions about this work I would be quite
willing to ask him anything that you might be wondering. There will be
another chance to find out more about this particular research in the
spring when we will be having another author, Robert Pennock, of that
paper come for another seminar.
Joel Duff
Department of Biology
University of Akron
Akron OH 44325-3908
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