Species
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What I think we are doing is we're transitioning as a
species.
I think we're transitioning into Homo evolutis that, for better or worse, is not just a hominid that's conscious of his or her environment, it's a hominid that's beginning to directly and deliberately control the evolution of its own species, of bacteria, of plants, of animals.
And I think that's such an order of magnitude change that your grandkids or your great-grandkids may be a
species
very different from you.
And my job is to look at lots of different
species
of animals and try to figure out how their tissues and organs work when everything's going right, rather than trying to figure out how to fix things when they go wrong, like so many of you.
So today I'm here to argue that this is not at all an esoteric Ivory Tower activity that we find at our universities, but that broad study across species, tissue types and organ systems can produce insights that have direct implications for human health.
It was first excavated in 1961 as they were building LAX, although scientists believe that it dates back to the year 2000 Before Common Era, when it was used as a busy transdimensional space port by the ancient astronauts who first colonized this planet and raised our
species
from savagery by giving us the gift of written language and technology and the gift of revolving restaurants.
So something that in other
species
are survival mechanisms, without which they wouldn't basically live, we bring into the context of human beings, and this is what we need to simply act, socially.
The two strategies of research, original research, can be stated as follows, in the final principle I'm going to offer you: For every problem in a given discipline of science, there exists a
species
or entity or phenomenon ideal for its solution.
And conversely, for every
species
or other entity or phenomenon, there exist important problems for the solution of which, those particular objects of research are ideally suited.
Most of the pills that you can take or the yogurts that you can eat have one or two
species
in them, maybe five
species
in them, and the human community is thousands upon thousands of
species.
So what can we do to restore our microbial community when we have thousands and thousands of
species
on us?
I put my friends in jars, I put this character, this sort of endangered
species
character in a blender.
And then we have a
species
that is equally close to us as the chimpanzee, the bonobo.
And actually, as it turns out, this mechanism between the two species, so to speak, of rioters and police, is identical to predators and prey in the wild.
We as a human
species
can sniff out in a moment, literally in a moment, whether or not someone is being their authentic true self.
Those small organisms have been around for millions of years and there's thousands of different
species
of microalgae in the world, some of which are the fastest-growing plants on the planet, and produce, as I just showed you, lots and lots of oil.
It's proportionally much bigger in humans than in any other species, and it's involved in a whole range of high level cognitive functions, things like decision-making, planning, planning what you're going to do tomorrow or next week or next year, inhibiting inappropriate behavior, so stopping yourself saying something really rude or doing something really stupid.
I discovered an invasive
species
in my own backyard.
No other
species
can do that.
All animal
species
do it, even though we all use slightly different tools.
They're going to survive as long as our
species
survives on what Shakespeare called "this mortal coil."
We're a visual
species.
And so therefore, if you look at the same region of a genome in many mammals that have been evolutionarily distant from each other and are also ecologically divergent, you will get a better understanding of what the evolutionary prior of that site is, i.e., if it is important for the mammal to function, for its survival, it will be the same in all of those different lineages, species, taxa.
There are 19
species
of mammal that live longer than expected, given their body size, than man, and 18 of those are bats.
It allows us to learn and plan and reason in ways that no other
species
of animal can.
There are 10,000
species
of birds in the world.
There are the New World vultures that are mainly found in the Americas, like the condors and the caracaras, and then the Old World vultures, where we have 16
species.
We have eight
species
of vultures that occur in Kenya, of which six are highly threatened with extinction.
In South Asia, in countries like India and Pakistan, four
species
of vultures are listed as critically endangered, which means they have less than 10 or 15 years to go extinct, and the reason is because they are falling prey by consuming livestock that has been treated with a painkilling drug like Diclofenac.
Kenya, this world, will be much poorer without these wonderful
species.
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