Exposing the Logic: Modelling the Adaptive Behaviour of Organisms
1 April @ 7:30 pm – 9:00 pm
If you look around you in the natural world you will see living organisms performing diverse and often bizarre activities. For example birds sing, flock, migrate. Male deer grow large antlers that they use to fight each other. Some fish change sex. This leads us to ask why organisms are performing these activities.
Arguments for adaptations as the product of natural selection have been given ever since Darwin. This talk will examine these arguments and present a simple model that attempts to understand aspects of the forces of selection that act to shape these.
