San Francisco
October 10, 2006
World famous Harvard University biologist and two time Pultizer Prize winner E.O. Wilson was interviewed for the "City Arts and Lectures" series regarding his most recent book, "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth." We learned that Wilson thinks religious and scientifically minded people can agree on one thing that is very important to all people on earth- the need to preserve the biodiversity on our planet. Among other things Wilson discussed the importance of preserving hotspots- places where a large proportion of biodiversity is concentrated. Afterwards a number of us had Wilson sign our books and Abby asked Dr. Wilson to the conronation dance. Wilson respectfully declined because, as he said, " I will be on the east coast, but thanks so much for asking, I don't get asked to go dancing much these days." Nice going Abby! Pictured from left to right in the front row: Jamie Erickson, Alicia Wong, Laura Webb, Hossein Sajjadi, Abby Dobyns, Stephanie Delaney, Adria Sherman, Rene Okholm, Tim Switzer, Rita Warkov. Pictured from left to right behind the front row: Mr. Hammack, David Hembry's friend, Joe Swartley, Julia Selfridge, David Hembry, Melanie Epling, A.J. Shepherd, Danielle Wang, Max Micali, Joclyn Igusa, Liz Mellema, Frances Nguyen, Shan McBurney-Lin, Meredith Meaux, Jon Moorman, Matt Gifford, Aimee Walker, Sean Wasserman, Jessica Walton.
Read David Hembry's blog about the lecture. Scroll to October 11th.