Nick Barton<\/a> (Institute of Science and Technology Austria)<\/em><\/p>\n Tuesday 4 October 2016, 11:00\u201312:30 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.<\/p>\n Click here for a preprint of the forthcoming paper in Heredity<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Limits to the accumulation of information by natural selection Nick Barton (Institute of Science and Technology Austria) Tuesday 4 October 2016, 11:00\u201312:30 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 … Continue reading 4 October: Nick Barton<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-talks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cle.ppls.ed.ac.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n1.17 Dugald Stewart Building<\/p>\n