Please join the Central Colorado Humanists as we view and then discuss the BBC documentary “Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life”, hosted by David Attenborough. Cake and ice cream will follow. The public is welcome to this free community event. Donations to the CCH scholarship fund will be gratefully accepted.
Summary: David Attenborough outlines the development of Darwin’s theory through his observations of animals and plants both in nature and in the domesticated state, visiting sites important in Darwin’s own life (e.g. Down House, Cambridge University, and the Natural History Museum) and using archive footage from Attenborough’s many nature documentaries for the BBC. He reviews the development of the theory since its beginnings, and highlights its revolutionary impact on the way in which humans view themselves: not as having dominion over the animals, but as part of the natural world and subject to the same controlling forces that govern all life on Earth.