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But about 10,000 years ago, our ancestors began to learn the secrets of selective breeding and early agricultural techniques.

In many species, all the winged males and winged virgin queens from all the nearby colonies in the population each leave from their different nests and meet at a central place to mate, using pheromones to guide each other to a breeding ground.

All of the crops that we eat today, wheat, rice and maize, are highly genetically modified from their ancestors, but we don't consider them GM because they're being produced by conventional breeding.

And here in the Solomon Islands, there's only a few thousand breeding females of this species left, and this is one of the hotspots for them.

But by the time that day came, the outbreak had already been breeding for months.

There's been excessive use of chemicals, there's been virus and disease transfered to wild populations, ecosystem destruction and pollution, escaped fish breeding with wild populations, altering the overall genetic pool, and then of course, as just mentioned, the unsustainable feed ingredients.

And as you're thinking about this incredible ability to make life do what you want it to do, what it's programmed to do, what you end up doing is taking what we've been doing for thousands of years, which is breeding, changing, mixing, matching all kinds of life-forms, and we accelerate it.

So what happens with this stuff is, we started breeding wolves thousands of years ago in central Asia to turn them into dogs.

So can you imagine a big bull, 65-ton Dreadnoughtus in the breeding season, defending a territory?

The aggressiveness of breeding males, armed with natural leg spurs, made cockfighting a popular entertainment.

This trend also caught the attention of a certain Charles Darwin, who wondered if a similar selective breeding process occurred in nature.

This work resulted in the famous Punnett Square, used to show the genotypes that would result from breeding a given pairing.

Since then, numerous breeding initiatives have made chickens bigger and meatier, and allowed them to lay more eggs than ever.

And in doing so, we were breeding them for parasitism.

And in all that area, they're only rarely found breeding more than five kilometers away from human beings.

Whales return to the same feeding and breeding grounds annually, and each discrete population has a different song.

And when males from different populations are feeding within earshot, phrases are often exchanged, maybe because new songs make them more attractive to breeding females.

Some whales will avoid key feeding or breeding grounds if human noise is too loud.

We think that walking is important for getting away from predators and finding mates for breeding.

Farmers are already finding ingenious ways to reduce their impact, like using special irrigation techniques to grow “more crop per drop”, and breeding new crops that are less thirsty.

But close analysis of the genomes and coat patterns of modern cats tells us that unlike dogs, which have undergone centuries of selective breeding, modern cats are genetically very similar to ancient cats.

But when it comes to the breeding season, everything changes, and this is how he looks.

Recently, we've heard the talk of climate change making a lot of headlines, and it's also affecting birds, because birds are being forced to migrate to better breeding and feeding grounds because unfortunately where they used to live is no longer habitable.

These highly evolved beings want to trade DNA by breeding with humans so that each species’ genes can diversify and fortify the other.

This is one of my favorite ones here, where they have rabbit breeding, so males choose the lucky rabbit.

So now they're in the cities, the Iraqis are in the cities, it's Assad, it's not like he's taking care of his people, and all of a sudden we have just this huge issue here of massive instability and a breeding ground for extremism.

And as these more docile scavengers outlasted their aggressive brethren, their genetic traits were passed on, gradually breeding tamer wolves in areas near human populations.

The situation where an individual would change partners, either between breeding seasons or just simply because they didn't like their partner anymore?

This memory also extends to breeding territories and birthing areas, as well as which neighbors are friend and foe.

They carefully measure what they catch so that they're not taking the breeding lobster out of the ocean.

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