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SAO PAULO and PALMAS, Brazil - In the context of Brazil's "Year of France", the seminar will include philosopher Edgar Morin, one of today's most important thinkers, and paleontologist Michel Brunet, who discovered the oldest human fossil Thinkers, researchers and political representatives from several countries will set out to contribute to understanding and dealing with the causes of the current global crisis in all its complexity and to suggest new sustainability models as they participate in the "International Civilization Crisis Seminar: Different Perspectives - Transition from the Development Paradigm in Southern Hemisphere Countries", that takes place between June 22 and 24, 2009, at the Universidade Federal do Tocantins in Palmas, Brazil.