Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively? by Daniel Fisher

Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively? by Daniel Fisher

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Phylogeny from DNA Sequences

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Phylogeny from DNA Sequences

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Can Evolution Be Understood Quantitatively? by Daniel Fisher

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  1. 1 DATE :06 March 2018, 16:00 to
  2. 2 Introduction
  3. 3 Can evolution be understood quantitatively?
  4. 4 Basic Laws of Evolution
  5. 5 Source of New Heritable Variation
  6. 6 Evidence for Evolution
  7. 7 Phylogeny
  8. 8 DNA Sequencing
  9. 9 Phylogeny from DNA Sequences
  10. 10 Basic Laws =Anything Can Evolve. But How Fast?
  11. 11 Who Cares About Quantitative Understanding?
  12. 12 Dynamics: What Determines Rate of Evolution?
  13. 13 Evolution & Population Size
  14. 14 Questions and puzzles
  15. 15 Difficulties
  16. 16 Learn to Love Bacteria & other microbes
  17. 17 Bacteria and Colossal Numbers
  18. 18 Large Populations and Rare Events
  19. 19 Can One Ever Predict Rate of Real Evolution?
  20. 20 Simplest "Toy" Landscape: Fitness Staircase
  21. 21 Ascending fitness staircase
  22. 22 Large populations: =many mutations each generation
  23. 23 Quantitative Experiment: Speed of Asexual Evolution
  24. 24 Connection to nature?
  25. 25 Simple evolution experiment:
  26. 26 Evolutionary-Ecological Dynamics
  27. 27 Comprehensive Bacterial & Ecological Evolution
  28. 28 Evolutionary-Ecological Dynamics Population of Organisms
  29. 29 Simplifying complex biology?
  30. 30 Toy models: "high-dimensional" Key caricature: approximate complexities by randomness
  31. 31 Fitness "snowscape" model
  32. 32 Sexual Evolution: Why Is Sex So Popular? Costs of sex:
  33. 33 Bacterial have only occasional sex Lateral gene transfer rate R per
  34. 34 Microbial Evolutionary Dynamics: Future Prospects Natural:
  35. 35 Make Evolutionary Biology Like Condensed Matter Physics - Experimental:
  36. 36 Laboratory evolution: Select for aggregation of yeast cells
  37. 37 Evolve: multicellular yeast reproduce by fragmentation
  38. 38 Q&A

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