davison@UHNIX2.UH.EDU (Dan Davison) (11/23/89)
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Announcement
Fourth International Congress of Systematic and Evolutionary Biology
ICSEB IV
University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1-7 July 1990
Plenary Lectures: Eugenie Clark, Margaret B. Davis, Douglas Futuyma, Stephen
J. Gould, Richard Leakey, Lynn Margulis, Robert May, Peter Raven, John
Maynard Smith, Peter H. A. Sneath.
CLASS-L members might be interested in the symposia concerning systematics
and phylogenetic reconstruction:
Phylogenetic analysis of nucleotide sequence data: Methods, comparisons
and applications.
Molecular and paleontological perspectives on the evolution of modern
humans.
A critical reappraisal of theories of character evolution in phylogenetic
inference.
Origin and evolution of mitochondrial and plastid genomes.
Toward a phylogeny of the protistans.
Early life.
Mode and tempo of viral evolution.
Some of the Affiliated Society Symposia:
Rates and weights: Rates of evolution and character weighting.
The phylogeny of behavior.
Comparing trees: Measures of congruence and coevolution.
Quantitative approaches to the study of evolution.
Pattern versus process: Causal explanation in evolutionary biology.
Workshops and Special Interest Symposia:
21st century data and knowledge basis in systematics and evolutionary
biology.
The latest tools for cladistic analysis.
For registration materials, write to the
Congress Secretariat ICSEB IV
Microbiology Department
Microbiology Building
University of Maryland
College Park, MD 20742 USA
Abstracts of contributed papers are due in the office of the Congress by
February 1, 1990.