Columbia University in the City of New York

Mar 19, 20197:30 pm
Public Talk

Edward O. Wilson: Genesis

Edward O. Wilson (left) and Claudia Dreifus

New York Times science writer Claudia Dreifus joins celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson for a compelling conversation about his new book, Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies. Part of the 92Y Science Talks series.

March 19th, 7:30 pm – 8:00 pm at Warburg Lounge, 92nd Street Y

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Of all species that have ever existed on earth, only one has reached human levels of intelligence and social organization: us. Why?

New York Times science writer Claudia Dreifus joins celebrated biologist Edward O. Wilson for a compelling conversation about his new book, Genesis: The Deep Origin of Societies. Forming a twenty-first-century statement on Darwinian evolution, one shorn of “religious and political dogma,” Wilson offers a bold work of scientific thought and synthesis. Asserting that religious creeds and philosophical questions can be reduced to purely genetic and evolutionary components, and that the human body and mind have a physical base obedient to the laws of physics and chemistry, Genesis demonstrates that the only way for us to fully understand human behavior is to study the evolutionary histories of nonhuman species.

About Edward O. Wilson

Edward O. Wilson is widely recognized as one of the world’s preeminent biologists and naturalists. The author of more than thirty books, including Half-Earth, The Social Conquest of Earth, The Meaning of Human Existence, and Letters to a Young Scientist, Wilson is a professor emeritus at Harvard University. The winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, he lives with his wife, Irene Wilson, in Lexington, Massachusetts.

About Claudia Dreifus

Claudia Dreifus writes “Conversations with…” in The New York Times’ Tuesday science section. She is known internationally for her unusual interviews with scientists, policymakers and international figures. Her writing appears in the New York Review of Books, Smithsonian, AARP—The Magazine and Scientific American. She is an adjunct professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She and her husband, political scientist Andrew Hacker, are the authors of the bestselling book, Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids—and What We Can Do About It.

This event will be held at the Warburg Lounge at the 92nd Street Y. Tickets are $30 and can be purchased here.

 

Venue: Warburg Lounge, 92nd Street Y
92nd Street Y, 1395 Lexington Ave, New York, NY 10128

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