ROCKLAND — Nature, Earth & Life: A Lecture Series by doctorate Alder Stone Fuller will be presented Tuesdays, October 21 - November 25 at the Lincoln Street Center auditorium. All six lectures begin at 6 p.m.

The first two lectures are two hours long; the remaining four are 1.5 hours.

This lecture series offers an introduction to the complexity - or system - sciences, a set of easy-to-understand principles that can lead anyone - with any background, including no science - to an understanding of virtually everything in the universe ranging in scale from quantum to cosmos. Complexity is a revolution and renaissance in science on par with quantum physics, yet far more applicable to everyday life and far more comprehensible.

It leads one to a profound new view of nature, life, Earth, organizations and culture. These ideas are crucially important for our future.

The first lecture is an overview of the entire series, which tells a story of Earth and life, and is, therefore, best engaged as a whole.

• October 21: How the Universe Works:

• October 28: Abrupt Climate Change, What To Do About It,

• November 4: Networks, Tipping Points, Fractals

• November 11: Self-Organization & Emergence:

• November 18: Cells, Symbiosis & Organisms: A Systems View of Life & Evolution

• November 25: Geophysiology & Earth System Sciences:

An Introductory Overview of the Complexity Sciences and Why the Media is Not Telling the Whole Story & the Edges of Chaos: The Mathematics of Nature Why the Universe Is Complex, Lumpy & Somewhat Orderly Studies of Earth as a Self-Regulating System

Alder Stone Fuller, holds a doctorate in ecology and evolution, University of New Mexico, 1990.

He also holds a BS in biology, MS in biological systematics, and an MS in probability theory.

After teaching full-time college biology and mathematics for eight years, he became a freelance educator in 2001. He offers seminars (30 introductory and advanced), tutoring and consulting to the general public, and trains educators about the complexity sciences, and how to effectively teach them.

He is founder of an educational collective called Ermah Ge with an office and classroom in Lincoln Street Center, Rockland.

Ermah Ge's curriculum is unique in the US in terms of content, completeness, integration of all aspects of complexity sciences, and accessibility to adults.

Cost: $10 each at the door; $5 for students and seniors. Full series prepaid: $50.