World Science Festival | Planet of the Humans: The Leap to the Top, with Brian Lehrer

• Science & Health

For all that Darwin contributed to our understanding of the biological world, he was haunted by one vexing question: How does the incremental process of evolution suddenly produce, say, humans—animals who walk upright, communicate through language, and possess the brainpower to travel to the moon? We are the dominant species in our environment—but did we get here through numerous baby steps or one giant leap? We’ll take a multi-disciplinary approach to tackling these questions, calling on some of the world’s leading thinkers in anthropology, linguistics, biology and philosophy.