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SUMMARY:Darwin Day with Dr. Matthew Morris
DESCRIPTION:Darwin famously wrote “If it could be demonstrated that any complex organexisted\, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous\, successive\,slight modifications\, my theory would absolutely break down.” This riskyprediction generated two different sorts of debate: the first among biologists ofthe late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries who debated whether Darwin’sclaim was correct – must evolution be gradual? – and the other from present-daycreationists who argue that certain complex traits refute Darwin’s claim. Yet apartial solution to both was already hinted at by Darwin: organismal bodies areflexible. Phenotypes can change under different environmental stimuli\, and thiscan happen rapidly\, dramatically\, and in a coordinated fashion. Dr. Morris willintroduce the concept of phenotypic plasticity\, the capacity of a single genotypeto produce multiple environmentally determined phenotypes\, and suggest thatsome modern critiques of Darwin can be put to rest through an understandingof what Darwin called that “most perplexing subject.”
URL:https://stmu.ca/event/darwin-day-with-dr-matthew-morris/
LOCATION:McGivney Hall\, 14500 Bannister Road\, Calgary\, Alberta\, Canada
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