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SUMMARY:BGM Monday Seminars
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DESCRIPTION:Our guest speaker is Dr Pierre du Rand.  The title of his t
 alk is:  MEMENTO MORI: dying\, death and immortality in evolutionary bio
 logy and literature Death and its diverse manifestations across the tree 
 of life are a driving force at the heart of many processes and behaviours.
  It’s one of the reasons\, for example\, why evolution happens and socia
 l philosophers say it is what makes life worth living. Yet it receives sur
 prisingly little attention\, especially among biologists. Over the last tw
 o decades I have studied what I call programmed organismal death (POD) and
  will summarise the evidence for why I (and others) believe it evolved by 
 natural selection\, however one wishes to define the word programmed. In c
 ontrast to the sciences\, mortality features extensively in literature (th
 ere will be a smattering of examples in this seminar). I’ll discuss the 
 existential nature of fiction (both the writing process and the stories) a
 nd tell you how this pulled me into writing. And lastly\, we’ll touch on
  the notion of immortality\, what it is and how it may manifest.
LOCATION:JJ Theron hall\, UP
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