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André Ariew (Professor or Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA), Darwin’s use of statistics to develop his theory of evolution
André Ariew (Professor or Philosophy, University of Missouri, USA), Darwin’s use of statistics to develop his theory of evolution
André Ariew is Associate Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Missouri (USA). When Karl Pearson asked Francis and Leonard Darwin whether their father was aware that the theory of natural selection is applicable to statistical analysis, they responded that their father had a ‘non-statistical’ mind. Ever since, commentators and biographers have perpetuated …
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Workshop on aging with Thomas Kirkwood
Workshop on the evolution of aging, with Thomas Kirkwood (Institute for Aging, Newcastle University). Bringing together philosophers and biologists, the workshop will examine the physiologically based evolutionary hypothesis of aging known as the ‘disposable soma’ theory proposed by Thomas Kirkwood in 1977. Setting Kirkwood’s theory into the broader context of the search for an evolutionary …
Thomas Kirkwood (Newcastle University and University of Copenhagen) – Understanding Ageing: The Great Puzzle of Our Time
Thomas Kirkwood (Newcastle University and University of Copenhagen) – Understanding Ageing: The Great Puzzle of Our Time
Thomas Kirkwood is Professor Emeritus of the Newcastle University, where he has headed the Institute for Ageing and Health, and he is an Affiliate Professor at the Center for Healthy Ageing at the University of Copenhagen. He has proposed the concept of the Disposable Soma, which states that the body has to budget limited ressources. …