Snakes and Sunrises: Why We Love One and Fear the Other (2014)

Author Talk and Book Signing with Gordon H. Orians, Professor Emeritus of Biology, University of Washington

Many of our aesthetic preferences, from the kinds of gardens we build to the food we enjoy, are the lingering result of the decisions our ancestors made centuries ago on African savannas as they selected places to live, sought food and safety, and socialized in small hunter-gatherer groups. Gordon Orians will describe how researchers, using an evolutionary lens and employing a rich variety of observational and experimental approaches, can explain why ghosts of environments past and decisions past reside in our modern psyches.