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   just_Lusungu

   July 5, 2023 at 12:09 pm

   I like his shoe game

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   Rawasia Rajpoot

   July 5, 2023 at 12:11 pm

   Geart always love to see Ted videos they are so informative 🤠

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   Six Vee

   July 5, 2023 at 12:14 pm

   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.

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   PERFECTDARK

   July 5, 2023 at 12:17 pm

   I love this. Thank you for your research on rapid evolution of adaptation.

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   Robert Uchman

   July 5, 2023 at 12:30 pm

   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

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   Trace Smith

   July 5, 2023 at 1:21 pm

   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.

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   our_rusophobia_is_insufficient

   July 5, 2023 at 1:23 pm

   ruzzians destroyed Ukraine’s nature

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   rjrich

   July 5, 2023 at 1:24 pm

   I think adaptation is the precursor of evolution.😊

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     Randy Foss

     July 5, 2023 at 2:42 pm

     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.

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     rjrich

     July 5, 2023 at 10:55 pm

     ​@abeautifuldayful So,if what you’re saying is true, then when people ADAPT to a certain climatic condition that means they EVOLVED already?

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   Pradeep B

   July 5, 2023 at 1:25 pm

   Amazing insights

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    wbh73

    July 5, 2023 at 1:54 pm

    My man chuck d 🤣 if he got flavor flav in It would have been amazing. Good talk. Hope you’re proud of yourself, bye.🤣🤣

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    Wyattinous

    July 5, 2023 at 1:56 pm

    Get yourself someone who backs you up the way random audience member #24 laughed at that Chuck D joke 👥👥😂👏👥👥

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      Paolo Tripputi

      July 6, 2023 at 2:34 am

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    Randy Foss

    July 5, 2023 at 1:59 pm

    Wow, the wolves and elephants presented here really show the change in heritable characteristics caused by humans. Once rare phenotypes like the ability to withstand high radiation exposures from exploded nuclear power plants or tuskless female elephants can become more common or eventually predominate their populations more often or exclusively and permanently, even while living in the wild. Their biological evolution is artificially caused, which is unnatural selection as opposed to natural selection, the process that Charles Darwin explained so well, and religion poo-poos. But the evidence here is clear. And if we can make such dramatic changes to wildlife and domesticated animals, imagine the changes we could be causing to human beings and our phenotypes even on relatively short timescales. Will we still be human beings or will we evolve into another species? Because looking into our past, the phenotypes of our ancestors made us unrecognizable as human beings using the definition we use today. They amounted to a different species altogether. We changed and could change again, sooner or later. It could be beneficial in a case like the wolves or more harmful like the elephants. If naturally, it’s not up to us. Unnaturally, it is.

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    Keith Bell

    July 5, 2023 at 2:16 pm

    Reminds me of the misnomer-
    “Save the Planet!”

    Inspite of man’s mismanagement, selfishness and greedy exploitation of earth’s resources,
    animal life will continue on.
    The planet will go on.
    Earth doesn’t need saving.

    Humans on the other hand…

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    Matt Love

    July 5, 2023 at 2:51 pm

    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.

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    spijkerpoes

    July 5, 2023 at 3:39 pm

    Pushing a species into extinction is, in my vision, the worst possible crime. Worse than mass murder or genocide to our own species.

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16. 

    👉 BUY YOUTUBE VIEWS 👉 Link in Bio

    July 5, 2023 at 4:40 pm

    Your channel is such a positive force in the world, keep spreading the love.

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    John Lujan

    July 5, 2023 at 11:19 pm

    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!

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    Mr Tien Physics

    July 6, 2023 at 1:01 am

    Darwin was aware of artificial selection.

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      None of your Damn Business

      July 6, 2023 at 3:25 am

      *Darwin was a eugenicist!*

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    rabbit

    July 6, 2023 at 3:19 am

    Go vegan and save the animals and the planet

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20. 

    psifiusc

    July 6, 2023 at 4:25 am

    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.

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    Willful Mystic

    July 6, 2023 at 10:42 am

    This is something I’ve thought about. I’m glad to see it on a TED Talk.

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    Pain Care Labs

    July 6, 2023 at 10:43 am

    Cool insight and glorious imagery

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    Ethan Hunt

    July 6, 2023 at 2:12 pm

    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

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      xxx xxx

      July 7, 2023 at 3:52 pm

      Maybe, but I’m going to be a much greater scientist than you, and an astronaut, and the number one pimp daddy.

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    MJ Son

    July 7, 2023 at 12:18 am

    연설하는 분이 누구인가요? 어떤사람인가요?

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    Rani A kbar

    July 7, 2023 at 4:58 am

    Antu evolution to believe side stone
    PLYNSTONE

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    Gabriel Goloni Lolo

    July 7, 2023 at 8:46 am

    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

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    Jonathan Byrd

    July 7, 2023 at 8:55 am

    Chuck D was OG

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    ildar mingazov

    July 11, 2023 at 11:25 am

    Do you know the first elefant killers is a billiard and piano players.
    And then safari brits hunters.
    Oh no its impossible 🙂

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