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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt; line-height: 115%; "><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; line-height: 115%; "><font size="4">Our unique program has attracted students with undergraduate degrees in Biology whose curiosity extends beyond
research in a laboratory. For instance, our students use evolutionary game theory, a framework developed by John Maynard Smith and George Price to consider Darwinian competition, to study the evolution of otherwise seemingly puzzling phenomena, such as communication,
altruism, and morality. There is also a "Baboon Club" which meets regularly to read work on primatology and discuss issues related to theory of mind and the evolution of various behaviors. We are also interested in various other biological topics, including
modes of inheritance and the concept of morphospaces. Our department is an ideal location for students who wish to continue studying biology, but focus on more philosophical and theoretical issues than would be addressed in a traditional biology graduate education.</font></span></div>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Additionally, our department has close ties with the Biology department at UC Irvine. For instance, the two departments co-teach
a Philosophy of Biology course every year. Our students also regularly attend the Sackler Colloquium, a conference centered around a different biological topic every year, organized by<a name="14a5fe4ff21e59cb_1430cb86f8143b13__GoBack"></a> Francisco Ayala
at UC Irvine (</span><a href="http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://www.nasonline.org/programs/sackler-colloquia/</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Since many of our most successful students have come from a background in biology and only discovered our department by chance,
we want to get the word out to as many students as possible who would thrive in our department. For more information, please visit our department website (</span><a href="http://www.lps.uci.edu/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">http://www.lps.uci.edu/</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">),
or feel free to contact me (</span><a href="mailto:hannahr@uci.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">hannahr@uci.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">) or the director of graduate studies, Jim Weatherall
(</span><a href="mailto:weatherj@uci.edu" target="_blank"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">weatherj@uci.edu</span></a><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">).</span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif"><font size="4">Many thanks,</font></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;line-height:115%"><font size="4"><span style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">Hannah Rubin </span><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">(4</span><sup style="font-family:'Times New Roman',serif;line-height:115%">th</sup><span style="line-height:115%;font-family:'Times New Roman',serif">
year LPS Graduate Student)</span></font></p>
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