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DESCRIPTION:\n\nHOW EVOLUTION CHOSE CIVILIZATION\n\nwith Will Dvorak\n\n\nCivilization 
 as we know it today with all its warts, pollution and species extinction 
 tendencies, is a result of Earth’s evolutionary history.  Willy nilly, 
 it’s in our laps and we have to deal with it.  We, as tree hugging, 
 nature loving environmentalists, recoil from the realization that Gaia in 
 her cosmic wisdom may be using evolution, neoteny, natural selection, 
 domestication of plants and animals, and human technological wizardry to 
 engineer the sixth major extinction event of earth’s biotic history in 
 our times.  We have been schooled in an anthropocentric world view that 
 preaches that evolution is always progressive and upward with the human 
 species and civilization as its crowning and most glorious 
 achievement.\n\nNow, environmental science is measuring a less glorious 
 result.  Human ingenuity may have overshot the earth’s bio-systems’ 
 ability to recover enough to sustain most mega fauna which are dying off at 
 record rates.  A major trimming back of complex organisms and their 
 supporting ecosystems seems to be under way.  All this is another attempt 
 at grasping the big picture, i.e., what is really going on here on planet 
 Earth.\n\nJoin us and hear what Will has to say about evolution choosing 
 civilization and participate in discussions about this controversial 
 subject! \n\n\nThe Eternal Child\nby Clive Bromhall\n\nThe Covenant of the 
 Wild:  Why Animals Chose Domestication\nby Stephen Budiansky\n\nBefore the 
 Dawn:  Recovering the Lost History of our Ancestors\nby Nicholas 
 Wade\n\nThe Origin of Species\nby Charles Darwin\n\n\nHumanist Hall is 
 wheelchair accessible around the corner at  411  28th  Street\n\n$5 
 donations are expected.\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/11/18764070.php
SUMMARY:How Evolution Chose Civilization
LOCATION:Humanist Hall\n390  27th  Street\nuptown Oakland, between Telegraph and 
 Broadway\nhttp://www.HumanistHall.org\n
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/11/11/18764070.php
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