Marshall Abrams lecture

What: Marshall Abrams’ public lecture (supported by the Simpson Center):

Where: CMU 120

Abrams is a philosopher of evolution at the University of Alabama, Birmingham, who has done important work in the conceptual foundations of evolutionary theory, especially on the role of chance and probability within the theory. Some of us are reading his recent book Evolution and the Machinery of Chance before his visit, but his talk will be accessible even if you haven’t read the book. It will explore some of the basic ideas behind the book and consider a few of their implications. Please see the flyer PDF for more details, and please feel free to circulate the flyer within your department if you think folks would be interested.

If you are interested in keeping up with the reading group, you can sign up for the reading group mailing list here. This term, we’re meeting Wednesdays from 5-6pm in CMU 218D (inside the Simpson Center).

In the winter term we will be reading Gregory Radick’s Disputed Inheritance. It is a history of the Mendelism/biometrician debates, with implications for contemporary genetics pedagogy.