Because evolution works, we actually have some evolutionary tools.

If we could get evolution into the material world, then I propose we should have a general theory of evolution.

We've been evolving just as long, just along different paths.

Are We Still Evolving?

And it's beginning to tell us a lot about evolution.

Evolution helps us.

We must promote the culture of peace.

We could make them evolve to be not so harmful to us.

The first wave of evolution is what we think of as Darwinian evolution.

We are not the pinnacle of evolution.

It's important to remember that we evolved.

We are now taking control of our own evolution.

So we have this special theory of evolution that applies only to organic biology, to us.

The vocal chords will be eliminated by a process of evolution as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.

We can't predict, necessarily, what will happen in evolution, but we can learn some of the rules of the game, and that's really what we're trying to do.

See, evolution protected us during our childbearing years and then, after age 35 or 40 or 45, it said It doesn't matter anymore, because they've had their progeny.

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.

When we find a fossil, we mark it.

And we are evolutionarily designed to do vision.

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.

Let's see what evolution can do for us.

That's probably where we evolved from.

Evolutionarily speaking, we're just a blip.

Impressive. And the rate of technological evolution speeds up, so a mere quarter of a century after this, you get this, OK.

Accordingly, we progressed step by step, fostering democratic culture among the population.

We don't really think of the evolutionary need to be protected by our senses, but that's probably why our senses really evolved to keep us safe, to allow us to live.

By changing our environment, we put new pressures on our bodies to evolve.

We have evolved to have our own pond.

Maybe we evolved as a hunting pack animal.

Because evolution doesn't care about us after we've had our children.

And yet, when we look forward in the brain we see really remarkable advance.

I propose to you that matter that can evolve is alive, and this gives us the idea of making evolvable matter.

As an evolutionary biologist, I'd say this our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

And we forget there is no progress without change.

We're dealing with living systems we're dealing with systems that evolve.

What I'm suggesting here is that we could get evolution working in the direction we want it to go, rather than always having to battle evolution as a problem that stymies our efforts to control the pathogen, for example with anti malarial drugs.

So, what we are trying to do in our exploration is effectively write the book of how things have came about as they are today.

Dinosaur evolution proceeded at a stately pace, an order of magnitude slower on any way you want to measure it.

It's the raw material, the stuff, of evolution in our agricultural crops.

That's how we evolved. It does seem odd.

Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes

And all I'm saying is that we need to figure out how they'll evolve, so that we need to adjust our interventions to get the most bang for the intervention buck, so that we can get these organisms to evolve in the direction we want them to go.

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

When we look at the so called evolutionary tree, we're up on the upper right hand corner with the animals.

We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from.