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SUMMARY:The tension between generality and diversity: what makes biology s
 o cool - Hanna Kokko (University of Zurich)
DTSTART:20181106T130000Z
DTEND:20181106T140000Z
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CONTACT:Gabriel A. Jamie
DESCRIPTION:All questions in biology in some sense take the same form: “
 why is life the way it is?” This question is multifaceted for the simple
  reason that there’s very many species (and also variation within a spec
 ies\, either in discrete categories — e.g. male\, female\; polymorphisms
 ). The temptation to come up with idiosyncratic explanations has to be bal
 anced against the temptation to study what is most convenient (hence the f
 ocus on model organisms) and/or what appears most appealing to us because 
 it is more familiar to us (taxonomic biases). I will reflect on these issu
 es\, also presenting some current work on the evolution of sex\, where it 
 is good to be reminded that not all sexual reproduction follows rules most
  familiar to us.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology \, Downing Street
 \, CB2 3EJ
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