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活动地点:东川路800号闵行校区生物药学楼 800号大会议室 活动时间:2008-05-20 09:30
视觉,大自然最伟大的杰作之一。视觉是动物获取外界信息最快捷、有效的方式,如:人获得的信息有90%来自视觉。但精密、复杂的视觉是如何形成的一直是个不解之谜。
动物起源于距今约8亿年前,但直到5.7亿年前的寒武纪,地球上的动物种类十分单调。但到寒武纪,生物种类突然丰富起来,生物学上称之为寒武纪大爆发(Cambrian explosion), 生物学对此一直无法解释。
而就在寒武纪大爆发前5百万年,视觉诞生了, Parker教授认为两者之间存在必然的关联。
Parker教授将倾多年研究积累,以英伦绅士特有的严谨、睿智与幽默的风格讲述并与您共同探讨这段生物进化的华彩乐章 -- 视觉的形成、进化以及对动物世界的繁荣、兴盛的作用。
报告将带给您有关生命的哲学思辩,带您翱翔于地球生命35亿年进化的广阔时空。
主题:视觉的起源与进化
主讲人:Prof. Andrew Parker (英国牛津大学、澳大利亚悉尼大学 教授)
时间:2008年5月20日 9:30 AM (周二上午)
地点:生物药学楼 800号大会议室
主办单位:金属基复合材料国家重点实验室,材料学院,生命学院
Professor Andrew Parker 简历:
Prof. Andrew Parker was born in 1967. After completing his Ph.D. in Marine Biology he worked as a postdoctoral fellow in Australia, Poland and the United States. He is currently Research Leader at the Department of Zoology at the Natural History Museum and a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford.Professor Andrew Parker spent 10 years in Australia studying marine biology and physics. On returning to the UK as a Royal Society University Research Fellow at Oxford University in 1999, he worked on colour, vision, biomimetics and palaeontology, where he found interesting links. Today he works at The Natural History Museum, London and The University of Sydney, while retaining a position at Green College, Oxford. He wrote the popular science books In the Blink of an Eye and Seven Deadly Colours, and speaks at literary festivals as well as scientific institutions. He was one of the eight "Scientists for the New Century" chosen by The Royal Institution and The Times.
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