Celebrate five years of Wonder with the Origins Project at our Great Debate: Transcending Our Origins: Violence, Humanity, and the Future.

The evening was moderated by Lawrence Krauss.

Our full 5 year retrospective introductory video here -    • The Origins Project: 5 YEAR RETROSPEC...  

The first panel, The Origins of Violence, features Steven Pinker, Richard Wrangham, Erica Chenoweth, Adrian Raine, John Mueller and Sarah Mathew discussing the development of violence from the brain to world war, followed by a Q&A.

Part 01 -    • The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE...  

Part 02 -    • The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF VIOLENCE...  

The second panel, the Origins of the Future: From Medicine and Synthetic Biology to Machine Intelligence, featuresRichard Dawkins, Craig Venter, Kim Stanley Robinson, Esther Dyson, Eric Horvitz, George Poste and Randolph Nesse discussing the origins of the future, followed by Q&A.

Part 01 -    • The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF THE FUTU...  

Part 02 -    • The Great Debate: ORIGINS OF THE FUTU...  

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Video by Black Chalk Productions.