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We, as a species, we're evolved uniquely for Earth, on Earth, and by Earth, and so content are we with our living conditions that we have grown complacent and just too busy to notice that its resources are finite, and that our Sun's life is also finite.
While Mars and all the movies made in its name have reinvigorated the ethos for space travel, few of us seem to truly realize that our species' fragile constitution is woefully unprepared for long duration journeys into space.
In our species' journey to find a new home under a new sun, we are more likely than not going to be spending much time in the journey itself, in space, on a ship, a hermetic flying can, possibly for many generations.
So far we've been looking to this new piece of mechanical technology or that great next generation robot as part of a lineup to ensure our species safe passage in space.
Well, I mentioned earlier that we, as a species, were evolved uniquely for planet Earth.
In our species' struggle to find our place in the universe, we may not always have the time necessary for the natural evolution of extra functions for survival on non-Earth planets.
But with every passing day, we approach the age of volitional evolution, a time during which we as a species will have the capacity to decide for ourselves our own genetic destiny.
Our true final frontier is the line we must cross in deciding what we can and should make of our species' improbable intelligence.
Connectivity, not sovereignty, has become the organizing principle of the human species.
We could end up with a species of human being on Earth that is slightly different from the species of human beings on Mars.
Most importantly, it will make us a spacefaring species.
A phenomenon that is so significant that the survival and propagation of our species depends on it.
The giant that lay in this grave, the new species of dinosaur, we would eventually call "Dreadnoughtus schrani."
Now, one of the really cool things about being a paleontologist is when you find a new species, you get to name it.
And then, in East Africa, an unpromising species of ape evolved the odd trick of sentient thought.
Who could have imagined that a single species of shrew-like mammal living in the cracks of the dinosaur world would evolve into sentient beings capable of characterizing and understanding the very dinosaurs they must have dreaded?
Right now, our species is propagating an environmental disaster of geological proportions that is so broad and so severe, it can rightly be called the sixth extinction.
Everyone is involved, because it's the future of our species.
75 percent of plant and animal species were lost, including, sadly, the dinosaurs.
We are the only species able to understand calculus or build telescopes.
And you can do it in nearly any species.
If you put an anti-malarial gene drive in just 1 percent of Anopheles mosquitoes, the species that transmits malaria, researchers estimate that it would spread to the entire population in a year.
Say you want to get rid of an invasive species, like get Asian carp out of the Great Lakes.
In theory, this means we could restore hundreds of native species that have been pushed to the brink.
Gene drives are so effective that even an accidental release could change an entire species, and often very quickly.
He bred his mosquitos in a bio-containment lab and he also used a species that's not native to the US so that even if some did escape, they'd just die off, there'd be nothing for them to mate with.
In fact, it's why we have an invasive species problem.
OK, the other piece of bad news is that a gene drive might not stay confined to what we call the target species.
That's because of gene flow, which is a fancy way of saying that neighboring species sometimes interbreed.
But it could be a disaster if your drive is deigned to eliminate the species entirely.
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