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SUMMARY:The Making of the Fittest - Professor Sean Carroll\, University of
  Wisconsin
DTSTART:20090116T173000Z
DTEND:20090116T183000Z
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CONTACT:Janet Gibson
DESCRIPTION:Abstract\n\nDarwin's theory of evolution by natural selection 
 is still the mechanism we use to explain organismal adaptation\, but the i
 ntervening 150 years since the publication of the Origin have led to many 
 new discoveries that help us to document the precise basis of those adapta
 tions - to see the steps of evolution. Chief among these is the sequence o
 f an organism's DNA\, which  contains a detailed record of its evolutionar
 y history - a record of how the fittest are made.\n Dr. Carroll will expla
 in how the adaptations of some amazing animals to various environments - t
 he freezing waters of the Antarctic\, lava flows\, or the colorful jungle\
 , are reflected in the DNA record of some marvelous creatures.\n\nBiograph
 y\n\nSean Carroll is  Professor of Molecular Biology and Genetics and Inve
 stigator with the Howard Hughes Medical Institute at the University of Wis
 consin. Dr. Carroll's research has centered on those genes that control bo
 dy patterns and play major roles in the evolution of animal diversity. He 
 is the author of the new book Remarkable Creatures: Epic Adventures in the
  Search for the Origins of Species (2009) and of The Making of the Fittest
  (2006) which won the Phi Beta Kappa 2007 Science Book Award  and of  Endl
 ess Forms Most Beautiful : The New Science of Evo Devo (2005)\, which was 
 a finalist for the 2005 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (Science and Technolo
 gy) His first two books are the foundation for\, and Dr. Carroll is the sc
 ientific consulting producer of\, a new two-hour NOVA special being prepar
 ed for broadcast in 2009 on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Darwi
 n’s The Origin of Species. \n           	Dr. Carroll is a member of the 
 National Academy of Sciences and a Fellow of the American Association for 
 the Advancement of Science. He has received the National Science Foundatio
 n Presidential Young Investigator Award\, the Distinguished Service Award 
 of the National Association of Biology Teachers\,  and numerous honorary l
 ectureships. Dr. Carroll earned his B.A. in Biology at Washington Universi
 ty in St.  Louis\, his Ph.D. in Immunology at Tufts Medical School\, and c
 arried out his postdoctoral research with Dr. Matthew Scott at the Univers
 ity of Colorado-Boulder.  \n
LOCATION:LMH\, Lady Mitchell Hall
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