Speaker: Malcolm Potts, Ph.D., FRCOG

Malcolm Potts, professor at UCB, and founding director of the Bixby Center for Population, Health and Sustainability.  The Bixby Center addresses the critical role of population growth on the environment, global public health, and civil and international conflict.  A British, Cambridge-trained obstetrician and biologist, Dr. Potts has worked internationally since the late 1960s, when he became the first medical director of the International Planned Parenthood Federation.  He has led collaborative research in family planning, contraceptive development, and HIV prevention in 40 countries.  His professional work has taken him to many war torn situations including humanitarian work in Bangladesh immediately after the War of Liberation, Cambodia during Pol Pot's attack on the capital and to Afghanistan, Angola, Gaza, Liberia, Ethiopia, Sudan, and Sri Lanka.  Dr. Potts has written 12 books and published over 350 papers and articles.  Two recent books are: Ever Since Adam and Eve: The Evolution of Human Sexuality, and with a co-author, Sex and War: How Biology Explains Warfare and Terrorism and Offers a Path to a Safer World.  In his latter book Potts and his co-author "explain war's pivotal position in the human experience and how men, in particular, evolved under conditions that favored gang behavior, rape and organized aggression.  Drawing on these new insights, they propose a rational plan for making warfare less frquent in the future and less brutal when it does occur." 

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