Course Learning Outcomes:

1. Describe how and why the effects of Darwinian evolution have brought us to this critical stage in the history of humanity.
2. Evaluate why philosopher, Blaise Pascal considered that, "All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone"- (Penses, 1670) and why poet, T.S. Eliot mused, "humankind cannot bear very much reality"- (No. 1 of Four Quartets, 1943).
3. Explain how an understanding of this "human journey" helps to account for a wide range of contemporary human affairs and cultural norms.
4. Identify and define the urgent challenges facing human civilization today, and why many authorities warn that "business as usual" cannot be sustained.
5. Participate in prescribing a way forward for the design of a new, more sustainable, and more humanistic model of civilization for our descendants.
6. Predict how the genetic legacies inherited from our ancestors, and how our continuing evolution as a species (informed by both natural selection and cultural selection) are likely to affect our human natures, our social lives, and our cultures in future generations.