The bridegroom, 34, is the founder and the managing director of Evolution Now, a personal training company in Manhattan.
As he believes there are objective moral truths, he concludes that natural selection cannot be the only "director" of evolution.
Harry Scarbrough, director of the evolution of business knowledge at Warwick, organised the event.
Dr. Nesse, director of the Evolution and Human Adaptation program at the University of Michigan's Institute for Social Research, has collected many such cases (he alters altering details to protect patients' identities) because he believes they offer clues to a deeper understanding of depression.
Rob Brooks is director of the Evolution and Ecology Research Center at the University of New South Wales in Sydney, Australia.
(Click over to this piece for my colleague Betsy Sharkey's take on the director's own evolution).
Guys who buck the prevailing facial hair trend enjoy "a significant premium by attractiveness ratings," Prof. Rob Brooks, director of the Evolution and Ecology Research Center at the University of New South Wales and a co-author of the new study, wrote in The Conversation.
Kevin Esvelt, a biologist who is director of the Sculpting Evolution research group at the M.I.T. Media Lab, spoke about new, easily accessible genetic engineering technologies that might be used to preserve species that are at risk of extinction, and alternatively to eradicate pests that threaten human populations by spreading disease.
Thanks in part to the prodding questions of intelligent designers, the case for natural selection as evolution's director is nearly as strong.
From his studio outside London, her musical director Matt Robertson discussed the evolution of her instruments and what they mean to performance.
