She has also served on the Board of Visitors of the University of Virginia. Ms. Kluge's commitment to civic and cultural affairs, especially within the Commonwealth of Virginia, will only serve to further distinguish an already world-class Board of Trustees of the Krasnow Institute. Ms. Kluge becomes the 14th member of the Krasnow Board of Trustees. Darwin's theory of evolution provided an explanation for homology, but since that time the criteria for homology have been a matter of debate. Phylogenetic homology has long been the most firmly established application, defining homologous characters in terms of descent from a common ancestor.
Phylogenetic homology addresses the distribution of a character across a group of species.
This new perspective represents a crucial advance for dealing with the wealth of new data on shared generative pathways for the brain and other body parts across the entire animal kingdom. In 1993, that very broad mission was focused and sharpened largely as a result of a symposium co-sponsored by George Mason University and our sister research institution, the Santa Fe Institute. To a very large extent, the modern Krasnow Institute reflects very well those antecedents. Our faculty conduct research ranging from machine learning to Orang utan language, from non-linear neural dynamics to calcium regulation, from developing neuronal morphologies to the evolution of the same. At the same time, the Krasnow Institute has grown up.