Love the part where he says " the simplest human whim...can fundamentally alter evolutionary fate" that is true of everything we do. Big or small every contribution to poisoning the earth and oceans with garbage and pollution...and even the tiniest measure of reuse and recycle HELPS evolution...not just for the most beautiful place in any universe...but awful humans too.
That comment "We live in a time when we are literally etching our decisions into the DNA of the species that live in, on and around us" was trully INSANE. I had never thought of it that way
It's the opposite, actually. The process of evolution is the precursor of adaptation. Once natural or unnatural selection takes place, the adaptation results from that. Yes, the phenotype was already there in the DNA and genetics. However, it is the precursor to the spread of the once rarer phenotype across the population in succeeding generations, but only through replication, not adaptation. Adaptations in evolutionary biology are what we mean only when new generations inherit heritable genes and we see a rise of the reproduced phenotypes in a percentage of the population of a species.
Whether we are here or not the planet went through some several climactic changes and I guess that also would have spurred some type of evolutionary process whether good or bad
May the Anthroprocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
For a second, I thought he was going to say that the wolves living in Chernobyl develop less cancer than their fellow wolves outside Chernobyl. That would be huge!
Humanity has become not only a new factor of extinction, but also a new factor of evolution on the planet; one of the tasks for a new species has been completed. And yes, don’t thank us for the plastic, you’re always welcome, we will produce much more
really shocked ,by the fact that we think really alike. well I hope we might work together in future,,currently I am just a student but soon I will be among greatest scientist that world will ever see
The non-sequitur reasoning of human egotism: Step 1 - demonstrate how many ways we are a horrible species, the absence of which everything else on this planet would benefit from; Step 2 - use that information to figure out how to further *our* survival? Maybe, if you're a fan of stories, you might want to notice that the story we've always told is a delusion of self-justifications and presumptions that somehow we can just completely change everything millions of years of evolution have programmed us to be. And that story is also a tale of horror for every other living thing in our wake. Probably not a great story to do anything with but end with a fade to black. You talk of cancers, but humanity has been the worst cancer this planet has faced. Any "good" we do for other creatures has always been moderately mitigating harms that wouldn't have existed for them in the first place if it weren't for us. And you're not a hero by "solving" a problem you yourself created. We can't just opt out of our essential, destructive nature with positive spins and TED talks. In philosophy the "trolley problem" demonstrates how we perceive morality essentially as a math problem: whatever ends benefits the highest numbers even if at the expense of the lesser numbers is the most preferable. Given that premise, with the millions of species that have died out as a consequence of the existence of humanity, the math suggests that the most moral thing humanity could do is be the next to go extinct, taking as few other species out with us as possible. Caring about this planet inevitably means rooting for a post-humanist future in which everything else can thrive.
Love the part where he says " the simplest human whim...can fundamentally alter evolutionary fate" that is true of everything we do. Big or small every contribution to poisoning the earth and oceans with garbage and pollution...and even the tiniest measure of reuse and recycle HELPS evolution...not just for the most beautiful place in any universe...but awful humans too.
It was an incredibly inspiring talk. Thank you. We are still writing this chapter, that's for sure. I believe it's only just begun.
That comment "We live in a time when we are literally etching our decisions into the DNA of the species that live in, on and around us" was trully INSANE. I had never thought of it that way
Get yourself someone who backs you up the way random audience member #24 laughed at that Chuck D joke 👥👥😂👏👥👥
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Geart always love to see Ted videos they are so informative 🤠
Amazing talk, Shane! Wonderful work, putting this together!
Good speaker. Good Talk. Thanks TED!
Pushing a species into extinction is, in my vision, the worst possible crime. Worse than mass murder or genocide to our own species.
Amazing insights
Cool insight and glorious imagery
3:59~5:26
Chuck D was OG
I think adaptation is the precursor of evolution.😊
It's the opposite, actually. The process of evolution is the precursor of adaptation. Once natural or unnatural selection takes place, the adaptation results from that. Yes, the phenotype was already there in the DNA and genetics. However, it is the precursor to the spread of the once rarer phenotype across the population in succeeding generations, but only through replication, not adaptation. Adaptations in evolutionary biology are what we mean only when new generations inherit heritable genes and we see a rise of the reproduced phenotypes in a percentage of the population of a species.
@abeautifuldayful So,if what you're saying is true, then when people ADAPT to a certain climatic condition that means they EVOLVED already?
Whether we are here or not the planet went through some several climactic changes and I guess that also would have spurred some type of evolutionary process whether good or bad
I love this. Thank you for your research on rapid evolution of adaptation.
May the Anthroprocene epoch make the Permian-Triassic extinction event seem like a minor footnote in the pages of Earths history. Here's to making scenario SSP5-8.5 of the IPCC assessment a reality.
For a second, I thought he was going to say that the wolves living in Chernobyl develop less cancer than their fellow wolves outside Chernobyl. That would be huge!
I like his shoe game
Humanity has become not only a new factor of extinction, but also a new factor of evolution on the planet; one of the tasks for a new species has been completed. And yes, don’t thank us for the plastic, you’re always welcome, we will produce much more
oh, there is another goal, to spread the seeds of earthly life throughout the solar system and beyond. tiny monkey seeds. not finished yet
Do you know the first elefant killers is a billiard and piano players.
And then safari brits hunters.
Oh no its impossible :)
really shocked ,by the fact that we think really alike. well I hope we might work together in future,,currently I am just a student but soon I will be among greatest scientist that world will ever see
Maybe, but I'm going to be a much greater scientist than you, and an astronaut, and the number one pimp daddy.
연설하는 분이 누구인가요? 어떤사람인가요?
Antu evolution to believe side stone
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My man chuck d 🤣 if he got flavor flav in It would have been amazing. Good talk. Hope you're proud of yourself, bye.🤣🤣
The non-sequitur reasoning of human egotism: Step 1 - demonstrate how many ways we are a horrible species, the absence of which everything else on this planet would benefit from; Step 2 - use that information to figure out how to further *our* survival? Maybe, if you're a fan of stories, you might want to notice that the story we've always told is a delusion of self-justifications and presumptions that somehow we can just completely change everything millions of years of evolution have programmed us to be. And that story is also a tale of horror for every other living thing in our wake. Probably not a great story to do anything with but end with a fade to black. You talk of cancers, but humanity has been the worst cancer this planet has faced. Any "good" we do for other creatures has always been moderately mitigating harms that wouldn't have existed for them in the first place if it weren't for us. And you're not a hero by "solving" a problem you yourself created. We can't just opt out of our essential, destructive nature with positive spins and TED talks. In philosophy the "trolley problem" demonstrates how we perceive morality essentially as a math problem: whatever ends benefits the highest numbers even if at the expense of the lesser numbers is the most preferable. Given that premise, with the millions of species that have died out as a consequence of the existence of humanity, the math suggests that the most moral thing humanity could do is be the next to go extinct, taking as few other species out with us as possible. Caring about this planet inevitably means rooting for a post-humanist future in which everything else can thrive.
Darwin was aware of artificial selection.
Go vegan and save the animals and the planet