Karl Joseph Niklas Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology emeritus, School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University Karl J. Niklas is The Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Plant Biology emeritus in the School of Integrative Plant Science, Cornell University. His research is in plant biophysics and evolution, with a particular focus on the evolution of biomechanics, complexity, and multicellularity. He has written over 400 peer-reviewed articles and five books [Plant Biomechanics 1992, Plant Allometry 1994, The Evolutionary Biology of Plants 1997, Plant Physics (co-authored with Hanns–Christof Spatz) 2012, and Plant Evolution 2016]. Niklas is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Institute of Advanced Study at the Wissenschaftskolleg in Berlin, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Participant In: How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The starting point of this roundtable discussion is Joseph LeDoux’s book, The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. LeDoux’s research on how the brain detects and responds to danger helped jumpstart and define the modern science of emotion. After three decades, he came to the realization that the commonly… read more »
How Deep Do We Go? Behavior, Mind, and The 4-Billion-Year History of Life Saturday, February 29, 2020 at 2:30pm Past Event Watch the video » The starting point of this roundtable discussion is Joseph LeDoux’s book, The Deep History of Ourselves: The Four-Billion-Year Story of How We Got Conscious Brains. LeDoux’s research on how the brain detects and responds to danger helped jumpstart and define the modern science of emotion. After three decades, he came to the realization that the commonly… read more »