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We're a miserably violent
species.
And there's another complication, which is, in addition to us being this miserably violent species, we're also this extraordinarily altruistic, compassionate one.
And what you see is, for example, patterns across different primate
species.
Some of them have evolved for extremely low levels of aggression, others have evolved in the opposite direction, and floating there in between by every measure are humans, once again this confused, barely defined
species
that has all these potentials to go one way or the other.
Its tangible benefits to all
species
are incalculable.
You may land on Mars and build armed citadels, or you may look for life-forms and
species
to learn from and respect.
So if we think about this problem, the problem of creating something more intelligent than your own species, we might call this "the gorilla problem," because gorillas' ancestors did this a few million years ago, and now we can ask the gorillas: Was this a good idea?
Our
species
is in dire straits.
And this coincided with a mass extinction of many marine
species.
Studies are showing some
species
are actually doing quite well but many are showing a negative response.
Now these ions are basically the building blocks for many marine
species
to make their shells, for example crabs or mussels, oysters.
As ocean acidity increases and the concentration of carbonate ions decrease, these
species
first find it more difficult to make their shells.
And it's an important food source in the ocean for many species, from krill to salmon right up to whales.
Or many other fish
species
whose food source in the ocean could be affected?
Shiny towers are an invasive
species
and they are choking our cities and killing off public space.
Over the years, my many journeys have brought back things like a new
species
of synthetically engineered bees; a book named, "Pets as Protein;" a machine that makes you rich by trading your genetic data; a lamp powered by sugar; a computer for growing food.
There's a kid in Nicaragua teaching others how to identify mosquito
species
that carry dengue by looking at the larva under a microscope.
And yours very truly found a
species
of flea that was dug inside my heel in my foot one centimeter deep.
There are 3,500
species
of mosquitoes, and they're all very similar.
One of the contexts of this is that being able to do this with a regular cell phone allows us to map mosquito
species.
Using a flip phone, we mapped one of the largest acoustic databases with 25 to 20
species
of mosquitoes that carry human pathogens.
And from this and machine learning, anybody who uploads this data, we can identify and tell the probability of what
species
of mosquitoes you're actually working with.
This is actually an endangered
species.
If human beings are the most evolved species, it's because we have the most evolved ways of collaborating and communicating.
And we vary the ages and even the
species
of the different victims.
You're probably even giving a microscopic high five to the two
species
of mites that live on our faces, on all of our faces.
In doing so, we found over 600
species
of bugs that live in USA homes, everything from spiders and cockroaches to tiny mites that cling to feathers.
And we found over 100,000
species
of bacteria and fungi that live in our dust bunnies, thousands more that live on our clothes or in our showers.
In each bug, for example, a wasp, we see a microscopic jungle unfold in a petri plate, a world of hundreds of vibrant
species.
So many of the
species
you're looking at right now don't yet have names.
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