3 Networks in Evolution
Biological entities are organized dynamic systems with a multitude of regulatory interactions that ensure the functioning of the system. The regulatory networks and the system properties of organisms have evolved during evolutionary time, resulting in increasingly more complex and stable networks. Comparative genomics testifies that genetic complexity is best measured by the connectivity of the interacting genesa conclusion that sheds light on other problems as well, to be discussed in the course. We shall characterize the functional and evolutionary effects of the network properties of the genetic, the epigenetic, the behavioural and the linguistic systems, focusing on processes of plasticity and canalisation at all levels. We shall argue that the evolution of new types of biological information, their storage and their transmission evolved as a response to, and within the framework of interacting, highly canalised and plastic informational networks.
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Ph.D. Eva JABLONKA
Professor of History and Philosophy of Biology and the Theory of Evolution, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
| Fields of study: genetics, epigenetics, theoretical biology, evolutionary biology, behavioural ecology, history of philosophy | |
| Places of study: Beer Sheva University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, London University | |
| 1976 | B. SC. in Biology from Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
| 1980 | M.Sc. (with distinction) in Microbiology from Ben-Gurion University, Israel |
| 1988 | Ph.D. in Genetics from the Hebrew University, Jerusalem |
| 1990-1993 | Lecturer in the Cohn Institute, Tel-Aviv University |
| 1993-2000 | Senior Lecturer |
| 1994-1995 | Fellow of Collegium Budapest |
| 1997-1998 | Fellow of Institute for Advanced Studies, Berlin |
| since 2000 | Associate Professor in the Cohn Institute, Tel-Aviv University |
| Visiting scholar in the Museum of Vertebrale Ecology, Berkeley |
Dr. Eörs SZATHMARY
Professor and Head, Department of Plant Taxonomy and Ecology, Eötvös University, Budapest Permanent Fellow, Collegium Budapest
| Studied Evolutionary Biology, Theoretical Biology at the Eötvös University, Budapest | |
| 1984-1987 | Ph.D. student, Eötvös University, Budapest |
| 1987-1988 | Soros scholar, Brighton University of Sussex |
| 1988-1991 | Research Fellow, Eötvös University, Budapest |
| 1991-1992 | Research Fellow, National Institute for Medical Research, London |
| 1992-1993 | Guest Professor, University of Zürich, Schweiz |
| 1994 | Fellow, Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin |
