http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darwin_Day
Darwin Day is a recently instituted celebration intended to commemorate the anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin on February 12, 1809. The day is used to highlight Darwin's contribution to science and to promote science in general.
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
Showing posts with label evolution. Show all posts
12 February 2010
28 December 2009
EVOLUTIONARY POLICYMAKING
We need to shed our prehistoric policymaking practices and turn to evolution for guidance, argues David Sloan Wilson.
For almost everyone, evolution is about fossils, dinosaurs and human origins. But it should also be about governance, education, health, peace and virtually every other public policy issue relevant to human welfare.
Why is evolutionary theory missing from the toolkit of politicians and their expert advisers?
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The Evolution Institute
For almost everyone, evolution is about fossils, dinosaurs and human origins. But it should also be about governance, education, health, peace and virtually every other public policy issue relevant to human welfare.
Why is evolutionary theory missing from the toolkit of politicians and their expert advisers?
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The Evolution Institute
08 October 2009
The Evolving face of Social Networks
"Our work was the first really systematic attempt to study Darwinian evolution on arbitrary networks...."
"....the world around us is full of evolving systems with all kinds of internal structure – whether it's the networks of cells present in the human body or the social networks that occur in cyberspace."
"....the world around us is full of evolving systems with all kinds of internal structure – whether it's the networks of cells present in the human body or the social networks that occur in cyberspace."
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