But there are ways in which our evolutionary history can really trip us up.

In fact, they might be due to the very nature of our evolutionary history.

What I've shown you here is sometimes called a major transition in evolutionary history.

The best answer lies in trying to reconstruct a Darwinian evolutionary history of our artistic and aesthetic tastes.

Now, I tried to suture together a dinosaur evolutionary history so that we can try to understand some basic patterns of evolution.

So, by being at the cusp of our evolutionary history, Selam unites us all and gives us a unique account on what makes us human.

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Yeah. I think it's evolutionary.

Then human beings stepped out of the Darwinian flow of evolutionary history and created the second great wave of evolution, which was we changed the environment in which we evolved.

All living organisms appear as mosaics of genetic tissue, or chimeras, suggesting that no two genes have the same evolutionary history. This framework is incompatible with the tree of life representation.

So now you have an evolutionary excuse.

So in evolutionary scales, movements get better.

DG Well, you know, the people who are most skeptical about leaping to evolutionary explanations for everything are the evolutionary psychologists themselves.

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process.

And it has not stopped its evolutionary path.

Because evolution works, we actually have some evolutionary tools.

We've developed this ability because it makes evolutionary sense.

There's a basic, profound acceleration of this evolutionary process.

Lying has evolutionary value to us as a species.

As is typical in science, each new discovery in evolutionary biology raises as many questions as it answers. Indeed, my field is now going through one of the most dynamic periods in its 150 year history.

It's really not a very friendly field for evolutionary biologists.

And this is an example of a successful evolutionary run.

We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.

If you could cause an evolutionary decrease in virulence by cleaning up the water supply, you should be able to get an evolutionary decrease in antibiotic resistance.

Now this is an interesting chart, and this really gets at the fundamental reason why an evolutionary process and both biology and technology are evolutionary processes accelerate.

It is really our greatest one of our greatest evolutionary sequences.

Another thing all these molecules are telling us that, apparently, bioluminescence has evolved at least 40 times, maybe as many as 50 separate times in evolutionary history, which is a clear indication of how spectacularly important this trait is for survival.

What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future.

I mean, these things sound trite, but they are deep evolutionary truths.

The combination of two fundamental human impulses the evolutionary propensity to move and the evolutionary propensity to distrust newcomers, who frequently brought disease, famine and war often gave rise to tension.

Now we're entering a third great wave of evolutionary history, which has been called many things intentional evolution, evolution by design very different than intelligent design whereby we are actually now intentionally designing and altering the physiological forms that inhabit our planet.

There is, after all, no ethical significance in the fact that one method of harming others has existed for most of our evolutionary history, and the other is relatively new. Blowing up people with bombs is no better than clubbing them to death.

And evolutionary psychologists think that these intuitions have a basis in the genes.

Hand axes mark an evolutionary advance in human history tools fashioned to function as what Darwinians call fitness signals that is to say, displays that are performances like the peacock's tail, except that, unlike hair and feathers, the hand axes are consciously cleverly crafted.

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And when evolutionary biologists talk about design, they really mean design by natural selection.

His famous evolutionary tree could almost be a diagram of the way we work.

Later, I would work on evolutionary genetics, and I would work on systems biology.

But now there's this third co evolutionary force algorithms the Boston Shuffler, the Carnival.

These are facts, historical facts, not schoolbook history, not Mr. Wells' history, but history, nevertheless.

A couple of them were students in a course I was giving on evolutionary biology.

We are not the determined product of billions of years of evolutionary plotting and planning.

But that is where the Tasmanian devil cancer has acquired an absolutely amazing evolutionary adaptation.

That's only about 2,000 human generations, the blink of an eye in an evolutionary sense.