...was in Tuscaloosa tonight as part of the University of Alabama's ALLELE (Alabama Lectures on Life's Evolution) series. I took a group up from Small Southern for the talk. The science was a fairly low-level summary of what we know about our African origins. The more interesting part of the talk dealt with the philosophical questions that rise from that knowledge. Can scientific proof of our commonality save us?
I have my doubts - we seem to be hard-wired for hatred. Still, spreading the word can't hurt. So, we're 95% similar, DNA-wise, to chimpanzees. Well, we're a lot more similar to each other. It's kin selection, guys. We're carrying each others genes - let's look out for each other. For the interested, here's a DiCarlo pub that summarizes his main points.
Although I enjoyed the DiCarlo talk, it was a toss-up between him and the stage production of Moby Dick.
Did y'all come to Moby Dick??
ReplyDeleteCouldn't do both, Katie. The ALLELE talk was at 7:30. Would've liked to have seen the play - I'm kind of a Moby Dick freak. How was it?
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