Princeton’s Corina Tarnita on “The Nature of Societies”—NYU’s Darwin Lecture, Nov. 4

New York University will host evolutionary genomics researcher Corina Tarnita for "The Nature of Societies: The Origins of Major Evolutionary Transitions," its annual Darwin Lecture, on Monday, November 4, 4 p.m., at NYU's Center for Genomics and Systems Biology auditorium (12 Waverly Place [at Mercer Street]).

Tarnita, a professor of ecology and theoretical biology at Princeton University, takes a comparative cross-scales approach to the study of complex adaptive systems: how they originate, assemble, interact with their environment, and change. Her lecture will consider major evolutionary transitions-rare events that nonetheless have had a disproportionate impact on the history of life. Taking a comparative lens to the evolution and organization of societies of cells, insects, and people, Tarnita will shed light on fundamental similarities and differences-and reflect on what keeps some societies together while others break apart.

This event will be both on Zoom and in-person. To receive a webinar link and to RSVP for in-person attendance, please visit the event's registration page.

Before joining Princeton University in 2013, Tarnita was a junior fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. She holds bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees in mathematics from Harvard University and has been a Guggenheim Fellow, an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, an ESA Early Career Fellow, and a Kavli Frontiers of Science Fellow of the National Academy of Sciences.

For questions about the lecture, please email [email protected].

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