UNE 全球人文中心 presents “Living with Our Natural Imperfections”
的 existence of life on Earth may be best understood as the consequence of a series of accidents, 选择, errors that have turned out quite well. Our unlikely origin story began with anomalies and asymmetries in space that caused planets to take shape from a bubbling void and sent light into darkness. It continued to produce the Earth’s first living organisms and, 最终, produced that most complex of creatures: the human being.
This is the argument scholar Telmo Pievani will make when he visits the University of New England 全球人文中心 to present a lecture titled “Living with Our Natural Imperfections” on Monday, Nov. 下午6点27分.m. 在 WCHP Lecture Hall in Parker Pavilion on the UNE Portland Campus for the 健康 科学s.
Pievani is a professor in the Department of Biology 在 University of Padua in Northern Italy, where he holds the First Italian Chair of Philosophy of Biological 科学s. Previously, he served as a professor of the philosophy of science 在 University of Milan-Bicocca. He is a past president of the Italian Society of 进化生物学 and is currently a fellow of several academic institutions and scientific societies, including the Scientific Board of 科学 Festivals in Italy and the International Scientific Council of MUSE in Trento. He is a member of the editorial boards of “Evolution: Education and Outreach, 进化生物学, 意大利自然, 史Treccani,” and the Italian edition of “Scientific American.” He is the author of more than 300 publications, including a robust list of books that includes his 2022 title “Imperfection: A Natural 历史,” upon which his lecture at UNE will be based.
在讲座中, Pievani will explain that life on our planet has flourished and survived not because of its perfection but because of its imperfection. He will begin this amazing story with the disruption-filled birth of the universe and proceed through the random DNA copying errors that fuel evolution.
This will be the fourth of five events this semester 在 全球人文中心, where lectures are always free, 向公众开放, 在线直播.