The World Until Yesterday
Best-selling author Jared Diamond's latest book, The World Until Yesterday, explores
the profound differences between so-called "traditional" societies and our modern
industrialized society in everything from the way we count to the way we meet strangers.
Today's traditional societies represent a window onto the human world as it was
until a mere yesterday, measured against a time scale of the 6,000,000 years
of human evolution. Traditional lifestyles are what shaped us and caused us to
be what we are now. What can we learn from them as we negotiate the new challenges
of the modern world?
Wednesday, January 16 @7pm
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