Biological evolution via natural selection is a simple idea that becomes enormously complicated in its realization. Populations of organisms are driven toward increased "fitness," a measure of how successfully we reproduce our genetic information. But fitness is a subtle concept, changing with time and environment and interactions with other organisms around us. We talk with biologist Brandon Ogbunu about the best mathematical and conceptual tools for thinking about the messy complexities of evolution, and how modern technology is changing our way of thinking about it.Support Mindscape on&nbsp;<a href="https://www.patreon.com/seanmcarroll" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Patreon</a>.Blog post with transcript: <a href="https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/11/18/296-brandon-ogbunu-on-fitness-seascapes-and-the-course-of-evolution/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.preposterousuniverse.com/podcast/2024/11/18/296-brandon-ogbunu-on-fitness-seascapes-and-the-course-of-evolution/</a>Brandon Ogbunu received his Ph.D. in Genetics and Microbiology from Yale University. He is currently Assistant Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at Yale, and External Faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. He has been awarded a Fullbright Fellowship and was the Martin Luther King Jr. Visiting Professor at MIT. He has contributed to a number of publications, including&nbsp;<a href="https://www.wired.com/author/c-brandon-ogbunu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wired</a>,&nbsp;<a href="https://undark.org/undark-author/c-brandon-ogbunu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Undark</a>, and&nbsp;<a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/authors/c-brandon-ogbunu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Quanta</a>.<ul><li><a href="https://ogbunulab.yale.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Lab web site</a></li><li><a href="https://eeb.yale.edu/people/faculty/c-brandon-ogbunu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Yale web page</a></li><li><a href="https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=rHUzZs0AAAAJ&hl=en" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Google Scholar publications</a></li><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Ogbunu" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Wikipedia</a></li><li><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8rRNbiYg7fs&ab_channel=SantaFeInstitute" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">Public talk: What is Lyfe? Towards a Biology of Context & Complexity</a></li></ul>See Privacy Policy at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy</a> and California Privacy Notice at <a href="https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info</a>.

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