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It lives off of rainwater, spring water, sunlight, and of the 1,450 species of bamboo that grow across the world, we use just seven of them.
This is the map of a small organism, Mycoplasma genitalium, that has the smallest genome for a species that can self-replicate in the laboratory, and we've been trying to just see if we can come up with an even smaller genome.
We find all kinds of species that have taken up a second chromosome or a third one from somewhere, adding thousands of new traits in a second to that species.
And with a very short period of time, all the characteristics of one species were lost and it converted totally into the new species based on the new software that we put in the cell.
This is a screen snapshot of some true design software that we're working on to actually be able to sit down and design species in the computer.
We don't expect monkeys to solve problems in quantum mechanics, and as it happens, we can't expect our species to solve this problem either.
There's another species in the outback, Homo sapiens.
The male of this species has a massive brain that he uses to hunt for cold beer.
The species almost went extinct.
And finally, of course, also a very popular scientific metaphor, we can see trees being used to map all species known to man.
We can also see this shift from trees into networks in the way we classify and organize species.
The image on the right is the only illustration that Darwin included in "The Origin of Species," which Darwin called the "Tree of Life."
But recently, scientists discovered that overlaying this tree of life is a dense network of bacteria, and these bacteria are actually tying together species that were completely separated before, to what scientists are now calling not the tree of life, but the web of life, the network of life.
This is a diagram created by Professor David Lavigne, mapping close to 100 species that interact with the codfish off the coast of Newfoundland in Canada.
We don't even know how many species of insects there are, because new ones are being discovered all the time.
This means that you could have an insect-of-the-month calendar and not have to reuse a species for over 80,000 years.
And what I think we've done, is use males, in any species, as though they are the model system.
Language is kind of exclusive to our species, anyway.
And I thought some strange humanoids or aliens in 500 years would find this box and learn about the way our species exchanged ideas, maybe how we ate our spaghetti.
And to do that, I picked an ambassador, an iconic species.
But what the idea was, is that for someone who's never seen this bird and has no reason to care about it, these photos, these new perspectives, will help shed a little new light on just one species that makes this watershed so incredible, so valuable, so important.
Because these are a unique species, they're not just apex predators.
And now this isn't just affecting them, other animals also depend on this relationship, so they become a keystone species as well.
But there is one species in the Everglades that no matter who you are, you can't help but love, too, and that's the roseate spoonbill.
We have a talent as a species for messing up wonderful things.
From asteroids capable of destroying entire species, to gamma-ray bursts and supernovae that could exterminate life on Earth, outer space has no shortage of forces that could wreak havoc on our tiny planet.
The opportunity to do this kind of genome editing also raises various ethical issues that we have to consider, because this technology can be employed not only in adult cells, but also in the embryos of organisms, including our own species.
Tropical forests and other ecosystems are being destroyed, climate change, so many species on the brink of extinction: tigers, lions, elephants, rhinos, tapirs.
This is the lowland tapir, the tapir species I work with, the largest terrestrial mammal of South America.
We human beings deserve to live in a world where we can get out there and see and benefit from not only tapirs but all the other beautiful species, now and in the future.
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