John Cleese on Darwin

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The Art Instinct: Beauty, Pleasure, and Human Evolution, an exciting new book by Dennis Dutton that launched here in January and in Britain, Australia, and New Zealand on February 12, 2009 — the two-hundredth anniversary of the birth of Charles Darwin — continues to evolve.

Dutton is speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival on the Fourth of July, and I hope to catch up with him there.  But even better, here are his notes about several upcoming things including an October chat with John Cleese.  Mr. Fawltly, Mr. Fawlty,  why is there war?

Don’t miss the book.  Or don’t miss one of the events.  Or don’t miss the chance to think about beauty, pleasure, and human evolution in your own sweet time.  There’s more to evolution than Steven Pinker and Steven Dawkins, after all.  But of course read them, too.  Here’s Dutton from his site:

I’ll be speaking at the Aspen Ideas Festival. That will be on the morning of the Fourth of July….  Also in the schedule, a public presentation on The Art Instinct at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art on October 21st, where I’ll be joined by John Cleese, and an address to the American Society for Aesthetics in Denver a few days later.

Scroll down this column for links to The Colbert Report, the Google speech, the Bloggingheads video, and other appearances that came out of the January book tour.

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