Limits to the accumulation of information by natural selection
Nick Barton (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)
Tuesday 4 October 2016, 11:00–12:30
1.17 Dugald Stewart Building
How complex an organism can evolve, and how much complexity can be maintained? How should we measure complexity? I will discuss the fundamental constraints set by mutation rate and population size, and also (more speculatively) the corresponding constraints on evolution of language.
Click here for a preprint of the forthcoming paper in Heredity