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SUMMARY:Endowed with an Extra Sense: Mathematics and Evolution - Professor
  Todd Parsons (France)
DTSTART:20141016T170000Z
DTEND:20141016T180000Z
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CONTACT:Joe Tomkinson
DESCRIPTION:Charles Darwin famously remarked "I have deeply regretted that
  I did not proceed far enough at least to understand something of the grea
 t leading principles of mathematics\; for men thus endowed seem to have an
  extra sense." Despite this\, the importance of mathematics (and contribut
 ions from mathematicians and statisticians from Cambridge in particular) f
 or the development of the modern theory of evolution is largely under-appr
 eciated. In this talk\, I will survey the essential contributions mathemat
 ics has made to the development of the modern evolutionary synthesis\, fro
 m the seminal work of J. B. S. Haldane\, R. A. Fisher\, and Sewall Wright\
 , to John Kingman's coalescent\, to the present.
LOCATION:MR2\, Centre for Mathematical Sciences
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