{"id":2940,"date":"2022-11-26T17:31:34","date_gmt":"2022-11-26T17:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2940"},"modified":"2023-11-10T09:10:31","modified_gmt":"2023-11-10T09:10:31","slug":"origins-how-the-earth-shaped-human-history","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/dorsetgeologistsassociation.org\/index.php\/event\/origins-how-the-earth-shaped-human-history\/","title":{"rendered":"CANCELLED (ORIGINS: How the Earth Shaped Human History)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><span style=\"font-size: 18pt\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000\">CANCELLED<\/span><\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<\/strong><strong>Description:<\/strong> By taking us through millennia of human history, and billions of years into our planet\u2019s past, Professor Lewis Dartnell tells us the ultimate origin story. When we talk about human history, we focus on great leaders, revolutions, and technological advances. But how has the Earth itself determined our destiny? How has our planet made us? As a species we are shaped by our environment. Geological forces drove our evolution in East Africa; mountainous terrain led to the development of democracy in Greece; and today voting behaviour in the United States follows the bed of an ancient sea. The human story is the story of these forces, from plate tectonics and climate change, to atmospheric circulation and ocean currents.\u00a0 When we reach the point where history becomes science we see a vast web of connections that underwrites our modern world and helps us face the challenges of the future. From the cultivation of the first crops to the founding of modern states, Dartnell will discuss the Earth\u2019s awesome impact on the shape of human civilizations.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Speaker:<\/strong> Professor Lewis Dartnell is an astrobiology researcher based at the University of Westminster, studying how microbial life, and signs of its existence, might persist on the surface of Mars. Alongside his research he writes regular science articles in newspapers and magazines, and has appeared in TV shows such as BBC Horizon, Wonders of the Universe, and documentaries on National Geographic, Discovery and History channels. Both ORIGINS and his previous book, \u2018THE KNOWLEDGE: How To Rebuild Our World After An Apocalypse\u2019 are Sunday Times bestsellers.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Venue:<\/strong> Victoria Hall at the Dorset County Museum, High West St, Dorchester DT11XA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANCELLED Description: By taking us through millennia of human history, and billions of years into our planet\u2019s past, Professor Lewis Dartnell tells us the ultimate origin story. 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