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We need to reverse-engineer our present artistic tastes and preferences and explain how they came to be engraved in our minds by the actions of both our prehistoric, largely pleistocene environments, where we became fully human, but also by the social situations in which we evolved.

Now, I personally have no doubt whatsoever that the experience of beauty, with its emotional intensity and pleasure, belongs to our evolved human psychology.

People in very different cultures all over the world tend to like a particular kind of landscape, a landscape that just happens to be similar to the pleistocene savannas where we evolved.

If you're wondering why the Tarahumara don't fight and don't die of heart disease, why a poor Ethiopian woman named Derartu Tulu can be the most compassionate and yet the most competitive, and why we somehow were able to find food without weapons, perhaps it's because humans, as much as we like to think of ourselves as masters of the universe, actually evolved as nothing more than a pack of hunting dogs.

Maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal.

So what if we evolved as hunting pack animals?

So if humans evolved as runners, if that's our one natural advantage, then why are we so bad at it?

And if you look at some of the organisms that have evolved to live in deserts, there are some amazing examples of adaptations to water scarcity.

This is the Namibian fog-basking beetle, and it's evolved a way of harvesting its own fresh water in a desert.

Then human beings stepped out of the Darwinian flow of evolutionary history and created the second great wave of evolution, which was we changed the environment in which we evolved.

For billions of years, the universe evolved completely without notice.

Now just about that time, the practice of surgery evolved from big to small, from wide open incisions to keyhole procedures, tiny incisions.

And so we made the game, and it has since evolved to a four-foot by four-foot by four-foot Plexiglass structure.

I suppose it is, so I won't say "revolution," but it certainly evolved very, very deeply our understanding of the proton, and of particles beyond that.

Plants have evolved to create little landing strips here and there for bees that might have lost their way.

This is a plant here that insects in South Africa just love, and they've evolved with a long proboscis to get the nectar at the bottom.

And this one is evolved to mimic a glossy metallic surface you see on some beetles.

This is a flower that really, really smells pretty nasty and is designed, again, evolved, to look like carrion.

Now you also continue to watch as consciousness evolved to the point that here in India, in Madhya Pradesh, there's one of the two oldest known pieces of rock art found.

Now you show me a successful complex system, and I will show you a system that has evolved through trial and error.

This baby is a human body: it evolved.

It's particularly astonishing because each one of these organisms, each subsystem, each cell type, each gene, has evolved in its own unique environmental niche with its own unique history.

It's an integrated system that has evolved despite all the planning and so on.

But even more surprising is if you look at socio-economic quantities, quantities that have no analog in biology, that have evolved when we started forming communities eight to 10,000 years ago.

Always, all the data shows it's the same, despite the fact that these cities have evolved independently.

These upright apes evolved on the African savanna about two million years ago, and they made these splendid hand axes that fit wonderfully into your hands.

Language evolved to solve the crisis of visual theft.

Language really is the most potent trait that has ever evolved.

Now having evolved language, though, we did something peculiar, even bizarre.

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