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March 5th 2019, 14h30-16h00 Salle de Rhumatologie, Hôpital Pellegrin, 12th floor Charles Pence (Université catholique de Louvain) “The Wonderful Form of Cosmic Order”: Bringing Statistics to Evolution A PhilInBioMed seminar Open to all Abstract The introduction of statistical reasoning into evolutionary theory – and the corresponding changes in our concepts of chance and evolution that made it possible – did not happen overnight. In particular, many of the relevant biologists between 1900 and 1930 (such as W. F. R. Weldon, Karl Pearson, and R. A. Fisher) pointed back to Francis Galton as a vitally important precursor for their work. When we read Galton, however, it is far from immediately obvious why he would be taken to be so crucial by so many important successors. In this talk, I’ll explore some of Galton’s ideas about the relationship between micro-level variation and population change, and try to reconstruct what within his thought might have been seen to be so groundbreaking by biologists in the first part of the twentieth century. I will close by drawing some morals for our contemporary conception of evolutionary theory. Charles Pence is a Philosopher of biology at the Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium. During his stay in Bordeaux, he will be available for discussions. If you would like to talk to him, please sign up here, so that we may arrange for a convinient time to meet.Further information on Charles Pence and the seminar here. -- Dr. Wiebke Bretting Project Manager ERC IDEM ImmunoConcEpT, UMR5164 Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux https://www.immuconcept.org/erc-idem/ -- Pour toute question, la FAQ de la liste se trouve ici: https://www.vidal-rosset.net/
