"Experiments with Digital Organisms"

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Experimental evolution with bacteria and digital organisms 00:00:00
Outline of talk 00:00:51
Experimental evolution with bacteria and digital organisms 00:01:07
Outline of talk 00:01:09
William Paley, Natural Theology (1802) 00:01:10
Paley, continued 00:01:43
Charles Darwin, On the Origin of Species (1859) 00:02:20
Darwin, continued 00:03:04
Some approaches to studying evolution 00:03:35
Question: How repeatable is evolution? 00:05:02
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A billion mutations in each evolving population 00:07:02
Fitness trajectories 00:08:59
Cell size trajectories 00:10:33
Ecological specialization and catabolic breadth 00:10:56
Changes in gene expression using microarrays 00:12:10
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Sequencing randomly chosen genes 00:17:39
Paley (1802) 00:18:28
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They have genomes, metabolisms, and neighbors 00:23:19
And they evolve from a common ancestor into many species (kinds) 00:23:44
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Replaying life s tape 00:35:55
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Some readings for those interested 00:36:57