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Apr 29

How Flowers Made Our World

Flowers are revolutionaries. When flowering plants evolved, they swiftly transformed the planet, and their productivity sustains much of life today.

From rainforests to prairies to seagrass meadows, much of the Earth’s diversity is now directly dependent on flowering plants. Without flowers, primates would not have evolved and our ancestors would never have ventured beyond the forest in grasslands.

Using examples from his latest book, How Flowers Made Our World, David Haskell will illuminate the many ways that we live on a floral planet.

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Apr 29, 2026 12:00pm - Apr 29, 2026 01:00pm

Free

Meet Our Speaker


David George Haskell is a writer and biologist acclaimed for his lyrical explorations of the living world. His most recent book, How Flowers Made Our World, explores the creative powers of flowering plants. Haskell is a two-time finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in General Nonfiction, for The Forest Unseen and Sounds Wild and Broken. His book The Songs of Trees won the John Burroughs Medal. He is recipient of an Award in Literature from American Academy of Arts and Letters and Best Book Award from the National Academies.



Haskell has also written essays and multimedia experiences for The New York Times, Emergence Magazine, and other venues. He is a Fellow of the Linnean Society of London, a Guggenheim Fellow, and is Adjunct Professor of Environmental Sciences at Emory University. From 2018-2021 he lived in Boulder, CO, and he

now lives in Atlanta, GA.

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