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Natural selection also explains many basic revulsions, such as the horrid smell of rotting meat, or fears, such as the fear of snakes or standing close to the edge of a cliff.
The other great principle of evolution is sexual selection, and it operates very differently.
And here you see just a selection.
We want to play you one more selection.
I'm a biologist, and the central theorem of our subject: the theory of design, Darwin's theory of evolution by natural selection.
Darwinian natural selection is so stunningly elegant because it solves the problem of explaining complexity in terms of nothing but simplicity.
And through a process of selection evolution, you can pull one of a billion that does something you'd like it to do, like grow a battery or a solar cell.
And so through a process of selection evolution, we went from being able to have a virus that made a crummy battery to a virus that made a good battery to a virus that made a record-breaking, high-powered battery that's all made at room temperature, basically at the benchtop.
Through evolution and selection, we took it from an eight percent efficiency solar cell to an 11 percent efficiency solar cell.
We have selection.
And we know selection works.
Leveraging my knowledge of my pharmacogenomics: how my genes modulate, what my drugs do and what doses I need will become increasingly important, and once in the hands of individuals and patients, will make better drug dosing and selection available.
And yet, despite all of that Darwinian evolution and natural selection, they've been constrained to lie on a line.
Each of you possesses the most powerful, dangerous and subversive trait that natural selection has ever devised.
It is the most valuable trait we have for converting new lands and resources into more people and their genes that natural selection has ever devised.
It's easy to imagine how particularly those parts of our bodies were quickly influenced by selection from the environment and shifted frequencies of genes that are involved in them.
Paradoxically, once established, natural selection actually favors the continued growth of cancer.
Natural selection is survival of the fittest.
And all at no extra cost, no selection, and allowing the pupils the route into university, even if many of them would want to become entrepreneurs and have manual jobs as well.
It's the selection of strategies and tactics.
And what we are trying to do with natural selection or adaptive biology — combine all three to make a high-growth, high-lipid plant.
But its common name is "random selection."
Of course, we could stratify the selection to make sure that it matched the socioeconomic and demographic profile of the country and was a truly representative sample of people.
Very interestingly, random selection was a key part of how democracy was done in ancient Athens.
But more interesting than the ancient use of random selection is its modern resurgence.
The rediscovery of the legitimacy of random selection in politics has become so common lately, that there's simply too many examples to talk about.
Is it a product of natural selection, like our hands?
In other words, Charles Darwin believed in group selection.
Wilson's book comes out in April, making a very strong case that we, and several other species, are products of group selection.
But really the way to think about this is as multilevel selection.
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