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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.
So I want to take you through a kind of whirlwind tour of that and then at the end talk a little bit about what some of the implications are for us and for our species, as well as our cultures, because of this change.
In addition, we've started to use cloning technology to try to save endangered species.
These are two creatures that were created in order to save endangered species.
Same thing happened with the mouflon, where it's an endangered species of sheep.
So really, what you end up having here is not a guar and not a mouflon, but a guar with cow mitochondria, and therefore cow mitochondrial DNA, and a mouflon with another species of sheep's mitochondrial DNA.
We are directly designing the future of the species of this planet.
That's hundreds of times as many species as there are on Earth.
And they're being traded by a species of almost seven billion individuals, who are linked by trade, travel, and the Internet into a global system of stupendous complexity.
And that's why, as a species, we're so creative and so powerful, and that's why we have a history.
We seem to be the only species in four billion years to have this gift.
There's oil spills, environmental disasters, water rights disputes, breakaway republics, famine, endangered species and global warming.
One of the things we've learned from Darwin is that the human species is only one among millions of cousins, some close, some distant.
In this picture, I've put a bush with a center branching out in all directions, because if you look at the edges of the tree of life, every existing species at the tips of those branches has succeeded in evolutionary terms: it has survived; it has demonstrated a fitness to its environment.
In the interval, there have been perhaps 20 or 25 different species of hominids.
Are we at some kind of evolutionary equipoise as a species?
And secondly, we as a species have so configured our environment that we have managed to make it adapt to us as well as we adapt to it.
And as far as isolation goes, when we as a species do colonize distant planets, there will be the isolation and the environmental changes that could produce evolution in the natural way.
We're also a species of storytellers.
And there's no better, sexier, more beautiful, charismatic megafauna species for me to hang my campaign on.
In that one single piece of ice, you have 300 species of microorganisms.
As a species, as humans, we like to say penguins are really cute, therefore, leopard seals eat them, so leopard seals are ugly and bad.
In addition to theorizing on evolution in "The Origin of Species," Charles Darwin also wrote the facial feedback response theory.
And the world's first major botanical institution is in London, and they have this extraordinary project where they've been collecting 25 percent of all the world's plant species.
And no other species does anything at all like it.
There are different species of memes.
Do you know how many species of flowering plants there are?
But most species actually use insects to do their bidding, and that's more intelligent in a way, because the pollen, they don't need so much of it.
The insects and other species can take the pollen, transfer it directly to where it's required.
This flower with its black dots: they might look like black dots to us, but if I tell you, to a male insect of the right species, that looks like two females who are really, really hot to trot.
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