Welcome to Darwin Day 2014! This event is for everybody interested in science. All are welcome. World leading scientists are invited to speak on: THE MAJOR TRANSITIONS IN EVOLUTION: FROM THE ORIGIN OF LIFE TO THE EMERGENCE OF LANGUAGE
PROGRAMME
10.15-10.20: Introduction
Nils Chr. Stenseth, Chair, CEES
10.20-11.05: 4 billion years of creation
Adam Rutherford
11.05-11.50: Hydrothermal vents and the origin of life
William F. Martin
11.50-12.35*: Origins of multicellularity: clues from the fossil record
Stefan Bengtson
12.35-13.15: Break
13.15-14.00: The rise (and fall?) of Darwin's special problems: the causes and consequences of ant dominance in a changing world
Nathan Sanders
14.00-14.45: Bayes, Hebb and Darwin: toward a truly Darwinian view of the brain
Eörs Szathmáry
14.45-15.30: How language evolution exemplifies the interplay of emergence and natural selection
Terrence W. Deacon
* Ingunn H. Thorseth should have given the lecture "Recording the history of modern and ancient life in hydrothermal iron deposits", but had to cancel. Stefan Bengtson from Naturhistoriska riksmuseet, Sweden, will replace her with the lecture: 'Origins of multicellularity: clues from the fossil record'.