[tt] [SALT] Paul Ehrlich FRIDAY June 27 (for forwarding)

[Eugen Leitl]

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From: Stewart Brand <sb at gbn.org>
Date: Mon, 23 Jun 2008 09:51:36 -0700
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Subject: [SALT] Paul Ehrlich FRIDAY June 27 (for forwarding)
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   Everything that lives evolves, but humans evolve culturally as well as
   biologically, and that puts us in a peculiar relation to the rest of
   life, with a peculiar responsibility.  If we can understand how
   cultural evolution works, we'll have a better handle on how to manage
   our responsibilities.  The question that Paul Ehrlich has been
   exploring lately is whether cultural evolution really does show
   patterns that would yield predictive theory.  He now has data from
   Polynesian canoes that indicate the answer is yes, cultural evolution
   is patterned enough to predict with.  We can discover a new way to
   comprehend our own behavior and perhaps influence it to the benefit of
   life.

     "The Dominant Animal: Human Evolution and the Environment," Paul
     Ehrlich, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 7pm, FRIDAY,
     June 27.  The talk starts promptly at 7:30pm.  Admission is free (a
     $10 donation is certainly welcome, not required).

   Besides being my teacher at Stanford in the 1950s, population
   biologist Ehrlich is president of Stanford's Center for Conservation
   Biology and author of a lifetime of influential books, including his
   brand new one, THE DOMINANT ANIMAL.

   Talks coming up:

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   Bot-mediated Reality"

   Sep. 12 (Friday) - Peter Diamandis, "Long-term X-Prizes"

   Oct. 3 (Friday) - Huey Johnson, "Green Planning at Nation Scale"

   Nov. 17 (MONDAY) - Drew Endy vs. Jim Thomas, "Synthetic Biology
   Debate"

   Dec. 19 (Friday) - Rick Prelinger, "Lost Landscapes of San Francisco"

   Jan. 16 (Friday) - Saul Griffith, "Climate Change Recalculated"

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                                           --Stewart Brand

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