Tempo and Mode in Evolution
Organized by Francisco Ayala and Walter Fitch
January 27-29, 1994
Irvine, CA
January 28
Session One: Early Evolution
Walter M. Fitch, University of California, Irvine, Chairperson
Phylogenies from Function: A Possible History of Replication
Nancy Maizels, Yale University
The Root of Life
Ford Doolittle, Dalhousie
Proterozoic Eukaryotes: Evidence for Accelerating Rates of Evolution
Andrew Knoll, Harvard University
The Earliest Life
William Schopf, University of California, Los Angeles
Session Two: Microeveolution
John C. Avise, University of Georgia, Chairperson
Dynamics of Adaptation and Divergence in Bacterial Populations
Richard Lenski, Michigan State University
Genome Organization
Daniel Hartl, Harvard University
DNA Polymorphism: Selection and Drift
Richard R. Hudson, University of California, Irvine
Patterns of Chloroplast DNA Evolution
Michael Clegg, University of California, Riverside
Friday Evening
James W. Valentine, University of California, Berkeley, Introduction
Banquet Lecture: Stephen Jay Gould, Harvard University, Pattern, Rate and Mode of Morphological Evolution
Saturday, January 29
Session Three: Macroevolution
Wyatt W, Anderson, University of Georgia, Chairperson
On the Origin of Phyla
James W. Valentine, University of California, Berkeley
Plants, Biomechanics and the Invasion of Land
Karl Niklas, Cornell University
Tempo and Mode in Human Evolution
Henry McHenry, University of California, Davis
The Role of Extinction in Evolution
David M. Raup, University of Chicago
Session Four: Patterns and Rates of Molecular Evolution
Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine, Chairperson
Molecular Biogeography
John C. Avise, University of Georgia
Molecular Genetics of Speciation
Francisco J. Ayala, University of California, Irvine
Molecular Clocks
Walter M. Fitch, University of California, Irvine
Molecular Analysis of a Chromosomal Phylogeny in Drosophila
Wyatt W. Anderson, University of Georgia
Organizing Committee
Walter M. Fitch, co-chair
Francisco J. Ayala, co-chair
Wyatt W. Anderson
John C. Avise
James W. Valentine