By cultural evolution we mean the evolution of ideas.

What is evolution?

If evolution can produce you, it's doing pretty good.

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

You are the products of evolution.

Lightly pigmented skin evolved not just once, not just twice, but probably three times.

I think that that is a Darwinian there's a Darwinian purpose to this.

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Are you a evolutionist?

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

Yeah. I think it's evolutionary.

It is common for hominids to evolve.

Is matter evolvable?

Evolution kicked in and that's the cool bit.

And amazingly, that evolution sustains the trajectory that biological evolution had established toward greater complexity.

And, interestingly, complexity is very highly evolved.

Evolution works that way.

So the first step in biological evolution, the evolution of DNA actually it was RNA came first took billions of years, but then evolution used that information processing backbone to bring on the next stage.

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

And this is an example of a successful evolutionary run.

We are not the pinnacle of evolution.

Green chemistry is chemistry in water.

And what that means is that DNA is, in effect, learning.

And that skin pigmentation itself was a product of evolution.

There's an amazing amount of stuff that's built into the brain.

It's not only carbon dioxide that has this hockey stick pattern of accelerated change.

Because it's heterogeneous, and that's the perfect substrate for evolution within the cancer.

Conditions of unemployment, poverty, inequity and hardship are enhancing factors for the politicization and radicalization of criminals.

How does evolution do cumulative, combinatorial things?

Well, that's evolution for you.

Atomie would be the process of social disintegration or quot atomization quot and quot anomie quot would be the process of quot cultural disintegration quot , the disintegration of broader cultural concepts that make democratic social life possible.

Evolution is usually presented as this one path that we took through, but really it represents this huge set of possibilities.

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

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

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process.

That's probably where we evolved from.

Evolutionarily speaking, we're just a blip.

It's a language that's still evolving.

Energy is crucial for economic development.

Well, man was sort of evoluted from the oldworld monkeys.

My friends, man did not evolve from the ape, but the ape devolved from man.

Because evolution works, we actually have some evolutionary tools.

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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.

This baby is a human body it evolved.