[The Evolution of Man 1896]
Beyond the Bare Bones: What Human Evolution Means to You
For our annual Darwin Day Platform Talk, Fred Edwords will connect evolutionary science to environmental issues and how these factors affected our early human ancestors. This talk will feature numerous images of humanity's ancestors courtesy of the Smithsonian Natural History Museum in Washington DC.
After the talk, please join us for our traditional Darwin Day banana splits.
This is an in-person meeting only at Green Hedges School, Vienna, VA
Fred Edwords served eleven years (1980-1991) as the founding editor of the AHA’s Creation/Evolution journal, refuting creationism, fifteen years as AHA executive director (1984-1999), and twelve years as editor of the Humanist magazine (1994-2006). He was the first corporate president (2002-2005) of Camp Quest, Inc., the summer camp for freethinking children. He went on to direct the AHA’s semi-autonomous United Coalition of Reason for six years (2009-2014), erecting attention-grabbing billboards across the country. And he served over three years (2015-2018) as director of planned giving for the AHA’s Humanist Foundation. Fred continues as an active humanist volunteer.
