Public Debate on Complexity and Evolution

On evening of 9^th July 2007, the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation keynote event was held at London’s Natural History Museum. Featuring Richard Dawkins, Steve Jones, Lewis Wolpert and chaired by Peter Bentley, a discussion on evolution and complexity took place in front of an audience of 600 people. On this page you can listen to the discussion and take a look at some of the photos of the event.

The Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference (GECCO) was held at University College London from 7-11 July 2007. The debate was sponsored by the Science Department of the Natural History Museum and Honda Research Institute Europe.

 

Download evolution discussion mp3 file (48Mb)

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Or open iTunes, click on Advanced, Open Stream, and paste this link to start an automatic download for your iPod: http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/p.bentley/evodebate.xml

 

Quicktime movie .MOV (385x288) of the debate is now available as a torrent for download:

Full resolution movie .ASF (784x576) of the debate is now available as a torrent for download:

 

 

 

 

 

Recording by Dobson Sound. Photos are courtesy of Miki Shaw and Kumara Sastry.