{"id":1975,"date":"2014-01-06T19:03:18","date_gmt":"2014-01-06T23:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=1975"},"modified":"2014-06-22T17:09:04","modified_gmt":"2014-06-22T21:09:04","slug":"florida-atlantic-university-frontiers-in-science-2014-public-lecture-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=1975","title":{"rendered":"Florida Atlantic University Frontiers in Science 2014 public lecture series"},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida Atlantic University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will launch its Frontiers in Science 2014 public lecture series<\/a> with a presentation by John Long, Ph.D., titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Devices: Biorobots Reconstruct the Evolution of Ancient Animals.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The lecture will take place on Friday, Jan. 10 at 3:30 p.m. in the Charles E. Schmidt College of Medicine, Room 126, 777 Glades Road, Boca Raton campus.<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153The challenge of studying evolution is that the history of life is buried in the past \u00e2\u20ac\u201c we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t witness the dramatic events that shaped the adaptations we see today,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Long. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Evolving biorobots can help answer some of the most compelling questions about evolution.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida Atlantic University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Charles E. Schmidt College of Science will launch its Frontiers in Science 2014 public lecture series with a presentation by John Long, Ph.D., titled \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Darwin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Devices: Biorobots Reconstruct the Evolution of Ancient Animals.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d The lecture will take … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-vR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":754,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=754","url_meta":{"origin":1975,"position":0},"title":"Eugenie Scott at UCF","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"October 24, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"I mentioned before that Eugenie Scott from the National Center for Science Education is going to be here in Florida Nov. 3. 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