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Stuart Kauffman, M.D. Esalen CTR Conference Affiliation(s): Evolutionary Theory Stuart A. Kauffman, M.D., is Chief Scientific Officer and Chairman of the Board, Bios Group Inc. He received a first B.A. from Dartmouth College in 1961, attended Magdalen College, Oxford University from 1961-1963, and obtained a second B.A. He received his M.D. degree from the University of California/San Francisco in 1968. After an Internship and Postdoctoral Fellowship in genetics in Cincinnati, he joined the Department of Theoretical Biology, University of Chicago in 1969. From 1973 to 1975, he was in the Public Health Service at the National Cancer Institute. He joined the Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania in 1975 as Associate Professor and became Professor in 1980. Since 1985, he has served as a consultant to Los Alamos National Laboratory, and from 1986 to 1998 as Professor at the Santa Fe Institute, where he is presently an external professor. In 1996, Dr. Kauffman formed Bios Group LP, in partnership with Ernst and Young. Major areas of research include Developmental Genetics, Theoretical Biology, Evolution, and the Origin of Life. He was awarded the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Fellowship 1987-92 and The Herbert A. Simon Award 2000. He has published three books with Oxford University Press: The Origins of Order: Self-Organization and Selection in Evolution (1993), At Home in the Universe (1995) and Investigations (2000).
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