Mark Longo
Biology

Bio-X SIGF Fellow 2011/2012
Morgridge Family Fellow
Profs. Ward Watt (Biology) and Jay McClelland (Psychology)

In the course of Mark’s research in evolutionary genetics, he has noticed striking parallels between certain aspects of the cognitive and biological scienc-es. He intends to explore these similarities further in pursuit of a complex adaptive systems conception of genetics. This work will yield a book-length manu-script with the working title The Genetic Mind: Genes as Learning Networks. At issue is the very way we think of evolution and what exactly it means for genes to be "for" things.
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