Tomorrow night at Palmerston Branch (Bloor, west of Bathurst, 7 pm) professor Megan Frederickson will be presenting the second lecture in our Exploring Evolution series. Her research and experiences in the Amazonian jungles of Peru are extraordinary and the visuals at this talk will be beautiful.

Ectatomma tuberculatum: an ant visits an "extrafloral nectary" (photo courtesy of Professor Frederickson)

As she noted in an interview with  U of T News, she has spent the last ten years "studying
mutualisms, including the one between ants and plants in 'devil’s gardens,' in
order to understand how natural selection can favour the evolution of
cooperation, and not conflict, between species."

You can get a glimpse of what the audience at Palmerston will see by looking at professor Frederickson's remarkable photo gallery: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/content/meet-megan-frederickson. The entire interview with her is here: http://news.utoronto.ca/killer-ants-peruvian-amazon.

Exploring Evolution
is part of a science outreach
initiative from the University of Toronto. The project has been spearheaded by
professor Ray Jayawardhana, Canada Research Chair in Observational
Astrophysics, in his new role as the U of T President’s Senior Advisor on
Science Engagement. There are three more events in the series: