The 2009 Laureates / Basic Sciences / Biological Sciences (Evolution, Behavior, Ecology, Environment)

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Peter Raymond Grant

U.K. / October 26, 1936
Evolutionary Biologist
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University

"Demonstrating Rapid Evolution Caused by Natural Selection in Response to Environmental Changes"
Through the long-term field study more than 35 years on Darwin's finches on the Galápagos Islands, the Grants demonstrated that morphology and behavior of organisms are altered rapidly by natural selection in response to recurrent environmental changes. Their work has not only made enormous contributions to evolutionary biology and ecology, but also has had a profound influence on the general public through demonstrating the evolution by natural selection in the field.

Workshop

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Symposium
"Evolution, Speciation and Long-Term Field Study"

DATE: Thursday, November 12, 2009

PLACE: Kyoto International Conference Center

Coordinator and Moderator: Yoh Iwasa [Chairman, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University]

13:00
Opening Address
Yoh Iwasa
 
Introduction of Laureates
Nanako Shigesada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Faculty of Culture and Information Science, Doshisha University]
 
Laureate Lecture
Peter Raymond Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences)
Barbara Rosemary Grant (the Laureate in Basic Sciences)
"Evolution of Darwin's Finches"
 
Lecture
Hiroshi Nakamura [Professor, Faculty of Education, Shinshu University]
"Cuckoo—Rapid Evolution of Egg-Mimicry—"
 
Lecture
Tetsukazu Yahara [Member, Kyoto Prize Selection Committee; Professor, Faculty of Sciences, Kyushu University]
"Floral Adaptation to Insect Pollinators: An Experimental Study in Daylilies"
 
Lecture
Makoto Kato [Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies, Kyoto University]
"Obligate Pollination Mutualism Discovered in Phyllanthaceae: Rapid Synergistic Diversification of the Partners"
 
Lecture
Norihiro Okada [Member, Kyoto Prize Committee; Professor, Graduate School of Bioscience and Biotechnology, Tokyo Institute of Technology]
"Search for the Mechanisms of Rapid Speciation of Victorian Cichlids"
17:10
Closing