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From Quasispecies to Universal Grammar

Speaker: Martin Nowak, Harvard University, Program for Evolutionary Dynamics
Date: Wednesday, March 17 2004
Time: 4:00PM
Location: E25-401
Host: Tomaso Poggio, CBCL and BCS
Contact: Mary Pat Fitzgerald, 3-0551, marypat@ai.mit.edu
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Talk title: "From Quasispecies to Universal Grammar"

Evolutionary dynamics can be formulated in terms of equations describing mutation and selection. I will discuss the quasispecies equation of genomic evolution and the replicator equation of game dynamics. I will show how these equations can be combined to study the evolution of human language.

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