GreenFare Organic Cafe:   Wednesday, October 26th at 5:30pm

Humans have an innate, intimate and emotional attachment to flowers. We use them as language to express and convey affection, sympathy and good will. Why do we seek to surround ourselves with flowers? What survival advantages does this fascination with — and pursuit of — flowers confer on us? What survival and fitness signals are flowers sending? Why should wearing flowers or smelling like them make us more attractive and/or cause us to be perceived as more desirable mates?

This lecture explores what our love of flowers tells us about who we are as a species and how important plants have been in our development and survival both individually and collectively. I will also suggest ways our involvement and coevolution with flowering plants may have helped spur the development of the human intellect and language ability.

Practicing in the Washington DC metro area, Milton Mills, MD is a critical care physician. Dr. Mills has served previously as Associate Director of Preventive Medicine and as a member of the National Advisory Board, for Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM). He has been a major contributor to position papers presented by PCRM to the United States Department of Agriculture regarding Dietary Guidelines for Americans, and has been the lead plaintiff in PCRM’s class action lawsuit that asks for warning labels on milk. Dr. Mills earned his medical degree at Stanford University School of Medicine, and completed an Internal Medicine residency at Georgetown University Hospital. He has published several research journal articles dealing with racial bias in federal nutrition policy. He frequently donates his time via practicing at free medical clinics, and travels widely, speaking at hospitals, churches and community centers throughout the country. He was featured in the recent attention-getting film What the Health.

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