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And Balinese carpenters like this measured them with their bamboo rulers, selected the bamboo and built the buildings using age-old techniques, mostly by hand.
So, as you all know, species lived in particular ecological niches and particular environments, and the pressures of those environments selected which changes, through random mutation in species, were going to be preserved.
And the reasoning behind that would be, first, we have, through medicine, managed to preserve a lot of genes that would otherwise be selected out and be removed from the population.
Evolution has selected, over millions and billions of years, for play in animals and in humans.
Nature isn't stupid, and it selected for play.
We did a design competition, selected a design team.
And when you have a population of fast-dividing cancer cells, if one of them acquires new mutations, which allow them to grow more quickly, acquire nutrients more successfully, invade the body, they'll be selected for by evolution.
And because of selected abortion by families who favored boys to girls, now we have ended up with 30 million more young men than women.
I was selected to come to TED! Hum?" (Laughter) So the deal is: I have here some texts to read to you and I'm going to see what color are you when I finish reading.
So lunch is coming along, and I think I will stop at that point, before I get selected out.
The ancient Athenians randomly selected citizens to fill the vast majority of their political posts.
So at that point, 1912, we selected crude oil over whale oil and some more coal.
We selected this for the research.
We've selected, at every point in this system, to do what we do, and to give everyone a precondition and then eventually a condition, in some cases.
There's so many examples I could have picked, and I selected this one of Jon Bon Jovi.
They considered all the usual culprits, and in less than 24 hours, they had selected their suspect: Francisco Carrillo, a 17-year-old kid who lived about two or three blocks away from where the shooting occurred.
Stanley Milgram from the '60s and '70s, the creator of the small-world experiments, which became later popularized as six degrees of separation, made the point that any two arbitrarily selected people were likely connected from between five to seven intermediary steps.
When a sound makes the basilar membrane vibrate, not every hair cell moves - only selected ones, depending on the frequency of the sound.
Put simply, in a room full of randomly selected people, I'm a maths genius.
On top of that, we selected some strategic points reminded of this idea of the gates and connecting them by straight lines, and this modified this initial pattern.
Scientists would gather some representative people, and they would see patterns, and they would try and make generalizations about human nature and disease from the abstract patterns they find from these particular selected individuals.
After the curator Robert Storr selected all the paintings from her lifetime body of work, I loved looking at the paintings from the 1970s.
One of the organizers of the Olympic ceremony, of the opening ceremony, called me and said that I had been selected to be one of the flag-bearers.
The antianxiety medication Librium was given to cats selected for their meanness in the 1950s and made them into peaceable felines.
That's when I was born, and I selected the West.
Basically, the massive use of antibiotics around the world has imposed such large selection pressure on bacteria that resistance is now a problem, because we've now selected for just the resistant bacteria.
And we also, on the web, during this week we streamed more than 100 years of video to 148 nations, and the websites are still there and they will be forever, actually, because Hurtigruten was selected to be part of the Norwegian UNESCO list of documents, and it's also in the Guinness Book of Records as the longest documentary ever.
So they selected that one.
Once the whole problem was solved, we left Earth in 2004 to the newly selected comet, Churyumov-Gerasimenko.
This comet had to be specially selected because A, you have to be able to get to it, and B, it shouldn't have been in the solar system too long.
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