Bio
Chris Girard, Professor Emeritus
Professor Emeritus | PhD, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1988
Coevolving informatics, macroevolution, code stacking, racialization and ethnicity, women’s political and military participation, quantitative methods, survey research
girardc@fiu.edu
My Coevolving Informatics channel is: https://www.youtube.com/@chrisgirard4235/videos
Coevolving informatics explores how three forces—information depth, energy specialization, and spatiotemporal dynamics—coevolve to shape complex systems. As information flow deepens and pushes past energetic and spatial limits, new levels of organization emerge. This channel applies that framework to modern warfare, major transitions in biological evolution, and the shifting dynamics of race and ethnicity. Each video translates peer‑reviewed theory into clear, engaging insights about how adaptive codes reshape our world. My first video was posted publicly on August 20, 2026: https://youtu.be/P74hIwoRnFA