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RI: Why do we make things so complicated?
Tue 14 Jun 2022
at 19:00 to 20:30
Meeting / Address:
https://www.rigb.org/whats-on/
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Shared From:
Association of IVCs (AIVC)
Groups Shared With:
Basingstoke Science and Climate Cafe
Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe invite you to this free Royal Institution talk titled "Why’d you have to go and make things so complicated?" Discover how high-performance computing can help us comprehend the world around us. ADVANCE BOOKING IS REQUIRED FOR THIS TALK. Please register for the event via this link: SUMMARY But there is another route for life to evolve complexity. Rather than being fine-tuned creations of natural selection, complex features can arise simply because biology is messy and noisy. In this talk, Jonathan Pettitt will explain how living systems tend to make simple mechanisms more complicated than they need to be. He will show how such ‘unnecessary complexity’ can both restrict and expand an organism’s evolutionary potential. Jonathan is the 2020 Genetics Society JBS Haldane Lecturer. Join us live in the Ri Theatre and online when Jonathan will explain how living systems tend to make simple mechanisms more complicated than they need to be; demonstrating how such ‘unnecessary complexity’ can both restrict and expand an organism’s evolutionary potential. SPEAKER This is a theatre event, where the speaker and audience in our theatre are joined by an online audience. For Theatre attendees, the address is 21 Albemarle Street, London, W1S 4BS. TIMING Latecomers will be admitted to the gallery.
Contact Details:
The Royal Institution (Promoted by Bob Clifford, Basingstoke IVC Science Cafe)
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