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Eighty-five to 95 percent of species at this time die out, and simultaneous to that is a huge, dramatic spike in carbon dioxide, that a lot of scientists agree comes from a simultaneous eruption of volcanoes and a runaway greenhouse effect.

For me, the field of ecology has provided important insight, because ecologists don't just look at individual species on their own, they look at the relationships between living things and their environment.

And now today, we're on the cusp of our next great era as a species.

When sunlight comes in and strikes a photocatalyst, like TiO2, or titanium dioxide, it creates these really reactive oxygen species, like superoxides, hydrogen peroxide and hydroxyl radicals.

These reactive oxygen species are able to remove bacteria and organics and a whole lot of contaminants from drinking water.

Whether it's because they're closer to the ground and can see the grasshoppers better than we can, or simply because they have a greater sense of empathy for other beings, children almost always include non-human species in their ideal worlds.

From conflict zones to climate change to all sorts of issues around crises in public health, we were missing what I call the species-level issues, because as a species, they could actually sink us.

Cultural evolution is a dangerous child for any species to let loose on its planet.

We humans are Earth's Pandoran species.

I know you know the idea, natural selection, but let me just paraphrase "The Origin of Species," 1859, in a few sentences.

It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it means to be human, all conventional theories of cultural evolution, of the origin of humans, and what makes us so different from other species.

All other species on this planet are gene machines only, they don't imitate at all well, hardly at all.

What about all those other species?

The size of the natural group, the natural community of Homo sapiens, is not more than 150 individuals, and everything beyond that is really based on all kinds of imaginary stories and large-scale institutions, and I think that we can find a way, again, based on a biological understanding of our species, to weave the two together and to understand that today in the 21st century, we need both the global level and the local community.

Typically, a phage will only infect a single bacterial species.

Compare that to phages, which work extremely narrowly against one bacterial species, and you can see the obvious advantage.

And from humans and other mammal species, we're starting to understand that the biological recipe of milk can be different when produced for sons or daughters.

This recognition isn't limited to others of their species.

They have shown concern for other species, as well.

When we consider all this evidence, along with the fact that elephants are one of the few species who can recognize themselves in a mirror, it's hard to escape the conclusion that they are conscious, intelligent, and emotional beings.

Only a few species are known to sing.

Meanwhile, toothed whales do use echolocation, and they and other species of baleen whales make social sounds, such as cries and whistles, to communicate.

This is one of the fastest examples of cultural transmission, where learned behaviors are passed between unrelated individuals of the same species.

These help us track species when sightings or genetic samples are rare.

And if we're not out there, if the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multiplanet species, I find that it's incredibly depressing if that's not the future that we're going to have.

Then there's becoming a multiplanet species and space-faring civilization.

With less seasonal sea ice, subarctic species are moving north, and taking advantage of the new habitat that is created by more open water.

We are hearing, in essence, an invasion of the Arctic by subarctic species.

Might these subarctic species introduce diseases or parasites into the Arctic?

Now, as a species, we obviously have problems with violence.

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