GEE Events Publication
- Royal Society 2012 Summer Science Exhibition
- GEE 2012 Post Graduate Symposium 8th May 2012
- The Huxley Lecture: Weds 1 Feb
- Darwin's Birthday Party at the Natural History Museum, 22 Feb at 4pm
- CEE Seminar, Weds 11 Jan
- Dr Nick Lane Lunch Hour Lecture: Is complex life a freak accident? 24 January 2012 (YouTube & UCL blog available)
- CEE Seminar, 18 Jan 2012 at 5pm: Adaptive Accuracy and the Integration and Modularity of Flowers
- GEE lunch-time seminar by Dr Nik Maniatis, Mon 9 Jan
- GEE seminar series resumes on Fri 13 Jan - NB: new time!
- GEE Special Lunchtime Seminar, Fri 9 Dec: 'Ecosystem response and reorganization in the face of global change’ by Aimée T. Classen
- Nick Lane Seminar in Earth Sciences: 6 Dec at 5pm: 'Origin of Life'
- CEE Seminar, 14 Dec 2011 'Restoration ecology: fact,fantasy and reality’ by Prof Jane Memmott (University of Bristol)
- CEE/LERN Seminar 7 Dec 2011 to be given by Matt Ridley: 'Genes, Culture and Collective Intelligence'
- Cementing the place of evolution at UCL
- The 15th Annual Robert Grant Lecture Zoology and mythology: looking at angels, fairies and dragons with Prof Roger Wotton, Weds 16 Nov 6pm - all welcome!
- Galton Inaugural Lecture: neurological disease – nature and nurture
- Recent GEE Inaugural Lectures
- GEE Lunchtime Seminars
- CEE Seminars: new series has been scheduled!
- CEE Seminar 25 January 2012, 5pm, AV Hill LT
- Special Departmental Seminar, Fri 24 Feb 1-2pm
- GEE/CEE Seminars
- GEE/CEE Seminar 25 Apr 2012
News
Dr Nick Lane Lunch Hour Lecture: Is complex life a freak accident? 24 January 2012 (YouTube & UCL blog available)
6 January 2012
Time: 13:15 - 13:55
Location
Darwin Lecture Theatre - accessed vial Malet Place |
Darwin Building
( Map)
Gower St |
London |
WC1E 6BT |
United Kingdom
Open to:
Academic |
Alumni |
Main Calendar Site |
Public |
Student
Admission: Free and open to anyone on a first-come
first-served basis. Lectures are also streamed live online or can be
downloaded after the event.
Natural selection is a kind of search engine. Given enough time, and suitably vast populations, it should find the best solutions repeatedly. So why are bacteria still bacteria? And why did all complex life on our planet share an ancestor that only arose once in four billion years? I will suggest that everything we see around us stemmed from a freak accident two billion years ago. We are far from inevitable, and may be alone in a universe of bacteria.
Contact
Dan Martin
+44 (0)20 3108 3840 |
dan.martin@ucl.ac.uk
Links
YouTube link
UCL Blog link
Speaker information
Dr Nick Lane
, UCL Genetics, Evolution and Environment
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