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The World Summit on Evolution is an evolutionary biology meeting hosted at the Galapagos Islands by Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, an Ecuadorian private liberal-arts university. Its focus is on recent research and new advances in our understanding of evolution and the diversity of life.〔Cumbres & Simposios - Universidad San Francisco de Quito http://www.usfq.edu.ec/summit/〕 The World Summit on Evolution hosts more than 150 participants presenting invited and submitted talks, poster sessions, and scientific-outreach talks.〔http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/512468〕 It has been called "The Woodstock of Evolution",〔Shermer, Michael. 27 June 2005. The Woodstock of Evolution. Scientific American http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-woodstock-of-evolutio&page=1〕 bringing together experts and students from widely different areas of evolutionary biology that rarely have the chance to meet. It has joined some of the world most famous researchers working on evolution from over 15 different countries, including Peter and Rosemary Grant, Niles Eldredge, Antonio Lazcano, Douglas Futuyma, Lynn Margulis, Ada Yonath, William H. Calvin, Daniel Dennett, among others. ==Objectives== Objectives:〔Second World Summit on Evolution http://www.usfq.edu.ec/eventos/World_Summit_on_Evolution_2009/index.html〕 * To join experts from different branches of evolutionary biology to discuss on the impacts of recent discoveries in order to integrate them inside the basic concepts of evolution.
* To remind to the scientific community on the importance of the Galapagos Islands and the discoveries produced thanks to their particular natural resources. This summit will present the islands as a living and dynamic laboratory of evolution. * To promote Ecuador, its researcher, and its academic institutions working to develop scientific knowledge. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「World Summit on Evolution」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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