Human beings are a social species.

And I'm talking specifically about synanthropic species, which are species that have adapted specifically for human ecologies, species like rats and cockroaches and crows.

Why didn't Homo erectus evolve into separate species, or sub species rather, human races around the world?

The human species, in general, is fallible okay fine.

Given that no human species other than our own survives (Homo floresiensis disappeared about 18,000 years ago), the prospects for harmonious coexistence among future human species are not reassuring. In the worst case, the human genetic lineage itself could be wiped out by inter species conflict.

These are three extinct species of hominids, potential human ancestors.

I want to start my talk today with two observations about the human species.

RP It is fragile, and you know, I think about emerging human diseases parasites that move into the human species.

Existential risk is a threat to human survival, or to the long term potential of our species.

I mention this because there are prophets today who claim that technology will fundamentally alter the human condition and perhaps even transform the human species.

Looking at the world from other species' points of view is a cure for the disease of human self importance.

Human forced climate change alone again, if unabated could eliminate a quarter of surviving species during the next five decades.

The Redwood species seems to exist in another kind of time not human time, but what we might call Redwood time.

He opines that the only non discriminatory definition of human or person includes all living members of the human species, and that a line cannot be drawn to identify when an embryo becomes human in terms of human rights.

There's six million species of insects on this planet, six million species.

Ten percent of all plant species on the planet, 24,000 species are safe 30,000 species, if we get the funding, by next year.

We've got over 1,000 species. We have 137 bird species as of today.

These are gateway species, vanguard species that open the door for other biological communities.

One of the things we've learned from Darwin is that the human species is only one among millions of cousins, some close, some distant.

So one way of thinking about it is that babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species.

You walk down the street in any big city, you travel like that, and you are amazed at the diversity in the human species.

It turns out that if you take the human species about 700 years ago, white Europeans diverged from black Africans in a very significant way.

Our species can make stuff, therefore we prospered in a way that no other species has.

Every species does it.

We're a social species.

That's the same species.

Trafficking in endangered species

And a Homo evolutis brings together these three trends into a hominid that takes direct and deliberate control over the evolution of his species, her species and other species.

And that was the beginning of a kind of serial depletion from bigger and tastier species to smaller and not so tasty species, from species that were near to home to species that were all around the world, and what have you.

According to the United States Marine Mammal Commission, 136 marine species have been reported in entanglement incidents in the wider United States area, including 6 species of sea turtles, 51 species of seabirds and 32 species of marine mammals (Marine Mammal Commission, 1996).

I want you to imagine that this particular grouping of cells is central to the evolution of our species and the continuation of the human race.

Will geeks become endangered species?

We don't have disposable species.

It covers over 200,000 species.

Evolution has generated many species.

And they weren't savanna species.

It is an endangered species.

It is an endangered species.

There are many endangered species.

Looking at fossils dating back several millions of years it all points to evidence that life for the human species as we know it began right here.

It gives us a completely new view of human origins and what it means to be human, all conventional theories of cultural evolution, of the origin of humans, and what makes us so different from other species.

On one of the last dive series, we counted 200 species in these areas 198 were new, new species.

And we think this is species specific, which means that that could explain why we can't communicate across species.

We are one species of about five and a half thousand mammalian species that exist on planet Earth today.

That is, natural selection works on properties, like fitness, which are about relationships of some species to some other species.