See the link:
“John Templeton Foundation awards $2.8 million to examine origins of
biological complexity”
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-01/jtf-jtf123005.php
The questions to be investigated seem quite interesting:
* Why are biologists so afraid of asking ‘why’ questions, when
physicists do it all the time?
* Can experiments using a digital evolutionary model answer why
intelligence evolved, but artificial intelligence has been so hard to build?
* What lessons can rock art and material remains teach us about the
development of human self-awareness?
* Can the geometric ordering of specific sheets of cells throw
light on the questions currently being raised about design in nature?
* What principles allow individuals to develop social and colonial
organizations?
All seem worth a brown bag lunch discussion at Krasnow.
Jim
Discoverers and Discoveries 