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Patrick Haggard

Voluntary Action

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David Adger

The Nature of Language

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Peter Jones

History of Laughter

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Gareth Jones

Undecidable Problems

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David Adger

Language and Artificial Intelligence

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Steve Jones

Genes and the Environment

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Onur Güntürkün

Self-construction

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Anson Mackay

Fresh Water and Climate Change

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Erol Gelenbe

Cloud Computing

Skull Modularity in Evolutionary Morphology

Biologist Arkhat Abzhanov on morphological diversity in birds, Hawaiian honeycreepers and how data on skull modularity can help to treat craniofacial abnormalities in humans

Evolutionary Optimality and Plants

Professor of Biosphere and Climate Impacts Iain Colin Prentice on CO2 concentration in nature, photosynthetic discrimination, and photorespiration

Evolution of Humans

Biologist Steve Jones on natural selection, chimpanzees, and Queen Victoria

Zoologist and entomologist Sean O'Donnell on Army Ants, chemical weapons, and invasive species

Theory of Evolution

Biologist Steve Jones on Darwin, Lamarck, and the uneasy relationship between evolution and genetics

A complex animal from the beginning of animal life

New research sheds light on the evolution of complex animal groups, suggesting that they may have evolved earlier than previously thought

Embryonic bird ankles, reverse evolution, and the dinosaur-bird link

An evolutionary “throwback” seems to have occurred in birds, which resurrected an ancient, amphibian-like pattern of ankle development

Allelic Architecture of Complex Traits

Geneticist Shamil Sunyaev on the difference between Mendelian and complex traits, linkage methods in genetics, and functionally relevant allelic variants in genes

Adaptability of Life to Extreme Environments

Astrobiologist Christopher Carr on archaea and bacteria, possibly habitable planets, and life on Mars

Animal nerve signal is an innate plant stress signal

Plants respond to stress with a combination of chemical responses similar to those of animals, but using a separately evolved protein mechanism

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