Annalee Newitz, Ars TechnicaSFI News:
The Santa Fe Institute (SFI) hosts the community lecture, “The Urban Species: How Domesticated Humans Evolved” at 7:30 p.m., Monday Feb. 29, at The Lensic Performing Arts Center (211 W. San Fransisco St., Santa Fe).
While our lectures are still free, seating is limited and ticket reservations are required so don’t forget to reserve your tickets if you have not already!
Get your tickets online here, or call the Lensic Box Office at 505.988.1234
Modern humans are building megacities – and networks of megacities – at an unprecedented scale. Annalee Newitz compares today’s urbanization phenonmenon to that of the Neolithic period roughly 9,000 years ago, when humans first began living in sedentary communities. That shift prompted massive social, biological, and technological changes, creating the first “domesticated” humans. Using history as a guide, Newitz explores the evolutionary upheaval that modern humans may have set in motion, and what it might mean for us as a civilization.
Annalee Newitz is the technology culture editor at Ars Technica. She holds a PhD in English and American Studies from UC Berkeley. Her most recent book is Scatter, Adapt, and Remember: How Humans Will Survive a Mass Extinction.
The speaker will be down the street at Collected Works (202 Galisteo St.) from 6 to 6:45 p.m. before the lecture signing books. Please bring your copy or buy one there.
We will have time for just a few questions at the end of the lecture. Want to submit a question ahead of time? Please read these articles selected by Dr. Newitz and submit your question to questions@santafe.edu before the lecture.
President’s Circle members are offered reserved, front-row seating. Please reserve your tickets and look for signs at the venue. Not yet a President’s Circle member? Learn more or join now.
Click here to view the online event listing. For a complete listing of upcoming SFI Community Lectures, visit here.
You can participate in SFI’s 2016 Community Lectures live online. To watch this lecture as it happens, visit SFI’s YouTube page. To participate in the discussion via Twitter, follow at @SFILive.