Everything Evolves: From Cells to Cell Phones

Zapraszamy na Otwarte Seminarium Instytutu Biologii i Ewolucji Człowieka (online) z udziałem Prof. Marka Vellenda.

Mark Vellend jest profesorem biologii na Université de Sherbrooke oraz członkiem Royal Society of Canada. Jest autorem książek The Theory of Ecological Communities oraz Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics.

Seminarium skupi się wokół jego ostatniej książki. I tym samym wokół tego, jak wykorzystać teorię ewolucji nie tylko w rożnych dziedzinach nauki, ale także w innych pozaakdemickich wymiarach.

Krótki opis/recenzja książki (New Books Network):

“…How the science of evolution explains how everything came to be, from bacteria and blue whales to cell phones, cities, and artificial intelligence

Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More Than We Think, from Proteins to Politics (Princeton UP, 2025) reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial intelligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems.

Taking readers on an astonishing journey, Mark Vellend describes how all observable phenomena in the universe can be understood through two sciences. The first is physics. The second is the science of evolvable systems. Vellend shows how this Second Science unifies biology and culture and how evolution gives rise to everything from viruses and giraffes to nation-states, technology, and us. He discusses how the idea of evolution had precedents in areas such as language and economics long before it was made famous by Darwin, and how only by freeing ourselves of the notion that the study of evolution must start with biology can we appreciate the true breadth of evolutionary processes.

A sweeping tour of the natural and social sciences, Everything Evolves is an essential introduction to one of the two key pillars to the scientific enterprise and an indispensable guide to understanding some of the most difficult challenges of the Anthropocene…”

Otwarte Seminarium Instytutu Biologii i Ewolucji Człowieka (online)
Serdecznie zapraszamy na seminarium z udziałem
Prof. Mark Vellend
Université de Sherbrooke (Kanada)
 17 lutego 2026
 15:00 (czasu polskiego)
 Microsoft Teams
 Język wykładu: angielski
 Tytuł wystąpienia:
Everything Evolves: From Cells to Cell Phones
 Moderacja:
dr Julia E. Wahl
 Dołącz do spotkania:

https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/39002754567637…

Meeting ID: 390 027 545 676 37
Passcode: mx98ER6w