BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN PRODID:iCalendar-Ruby BEGIN:VEVENT SEQUENCE:0 ORGANIZER:Kings Place & Nature DTEND:20090209T203000 DTSTART:20090209T190000 UID:2009-11-28T19:46:00-05:00_81612606@socialweb1 DTSTAMP:20091128T194600 DESCRIPTION:*_Discuss the event on the "London":http://network.nature.com/h ubs/london/forum/topics or "Nature Opinion":http://network.nature.com/group s/naturenewsandopinion/forum forum. The latter also contains several topics on "evolution":http://network.nature.com/groups/naturenewsandopinion/forum /topics/3649 and "Darwin 200":http://network.nature.com/groups/naturenewsan dopinion/forum/topics/3408_* \n \nIs natural selection still shaping humans given that our survival is often more dependent on technology than genes? What are the implications for future generations from sedentary lifestyles\ , falling birth rates and older parents? What might our species look like 1 000 years from now? Join three leading experts in evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology as they debate the latest evidence and its implicat ions. \n \nOrganized by _Nature_\, the leading international weekly journa l of science in association with Kings Place. \n \n \n \n*_PANEL_* \n• * _Henry Gee\, palaeontologist\, evolutionary biologist & Senior Editor\, Nat ure_* Dr Henry Gee is a Senior Editor of _Nature_\, the international weekl y science journal\, where he devised and edits FUTURES\, Nature's award-win ning science fiction column. He has written a number of non-fiction books i ncluding The Science of Middle-earth\, Jacob's Ladder\, Deep Time and (with Luis V Rey) A Field Guide to Dinosaurs\; and two novels\, By The Sea and S iege of Stars. He lives in Cromer\, Norfolk\, with his family and numerous pets\, whose lives are documented in his blog The End Of The Pier Show. \n• *_Susan Blackmore\, psychologist\, writer and Visiting Professor at the Un iversity of Plymouth_* Dr Sue Blackmore is a psychologist and writer whose research on consciousness\, memes\, and anomalous experiences has been publ ished in over sixty academic papers\, as well as book chapters\, reviews an d popular articles. She has a regular blog in the Guardian\, and often appe ars on radio and television. Her book The Meme Machine (1999) has been tr anslated into 12 other languages and more recent books include a textbook C onsciousness: An Introduction (2003) and Conversations on Consciousness (20 05). Her book "Ten Zen Questions" is to be published in March. \n• *_Andrew Pomiankowski\, Professor of Genetics\, University College London_* Prof An drew Pomiankowski's research in the Department of Genetics\, Evolution and Environment at University College London addresses evolutionary questions p rimarily in the area of sexual selection. One of the key questions he has b een working on is the evolution of female mate preferences for exaggerated male sexual traits used in courtship display. He is the Director of CoMPLEX \, UCL’s inter-disciplinary research centre for mathematical biology\, as w ell as a co-author of "Evolutionary Genomics and Proteomics" (2008). \n \n \n*_CHAIR_* \n*_Oliver Morton\, Chief News and Features Editor\, Nature_* Oliver joined _Nature_ in late 2005 — a bit more than twenty years after he started off as a science writer doing an internship at The Economist. In t he years in between he edited The Economist's science and technology pages\ , worked as editor of the UK/Europe edition of Wired\, freelanced for every one from The New Yorker to the Hollywood Reporter\, wrote Mapping Mars\, a book which the critics liked quite a lot\, won a couple of awards\, blogged a bit and found a number of other ways to use up half of his life so far. He has since published Eating the Sun\, a book about what photosynthesis me ans for plants\, people and the planet. \n \n SUMMARY:The Nature Darwin Debate 1: Are We Still Evolving? LAST-MODIFIED:20090209T132728 CREATED:20081030T160834 END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR