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SUMMARY:The curious incident of the seal in the pond - Jukka Jernvall (Uni
 versity of Helsinki)
DTSTART:20150304T130000Z
DTEND:20150304T140000Z
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CONTACT:Marcia Kishida
DESCRIPTION:With the advances in genomic methods and data\, interbreeding 
 has been inferred to have occurred at several instances during human evolu
 tion. But how different can populations and species be and still interbree
 d? One system that allows to study interbreeding and quantitative nature o
 f traits is the mammalian dentition. We have developed the mammalian denti
 tion as a model system in linking developmental and evolutionary biology r
 esearch\, a field often called ‘evodevo’. The principal interested of 
 the work is to understand how biological shape is made during development 
 and what factors influence the evolution of shape. One focus has been to u
 se computational modeling to model tooth shape development. I will discuss
  how modeling can help biologist to 'see' morphology differently\, and to 
 virtually experiment with species that cannot be studied in the laboratory
 . A special case discussed will be an extreme incident of interbreeding th
 at happened 86 years ago.
LOCATION:Part II Lecture Theatre\, Department of Zoology
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