Sunday, September 11, 2016

Big Picture Science for Monday September 12, 2016 - The Evolution of Evolution












Big Picture Science - The Evolution of Evolution

ENCORE: Darwinian evolution is adaptive and slow … millennia can go by before a species changes very much. But with the tools of genetic engineering we can now make radical changes in just one generation. By removing genes or inserting new ones, we can give an organism radically different traits and behaviors. We are taking evolution into our own hands.

It all began with the domestication of plants and animals, which one science writer says created civilization. Today, as humans tinker with their own genome, is it possible we will produce Homo sapiens 2.0?

Also, what happens to those species who can’t control their destiny? How climate change is forcing the biggest genetic reshuffling in recorded history.

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This encore podcast was first released on May 04 2015

Download podcast at: http://bigpicturescience.org/episodes/The_Evolution_of_Evolution

You can listen to this and other episodes at http://bigpicturescience.org/, and be sure to check out Blog Picture Science, the companion blog to the radio show.

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