Everything about humanity is changing—except our bodies | Sean B. Carroll on evolution
August 16, 2024
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About the video: Biological evolution in humans has slowed. Can AI, culture wars, and modern tech explain why?
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In modern times, our lives have changed tremendously by gaining control over nature. The advent of vaccines, antibiotics, antivirals, and better sanitation has dramatically reduced our physiological challenges. In the present day, we enjoy a much more secure food supply than we did a hundred years ago.
We live at a time where cultural evolution can be very, very, very rapid, but our biological evolution seems relatively stunted. Why is this? Why is everything about our civilization changing constantly, except our bodies?
Biologist and author Sean B. Carroll unveils why biology isn’t evolving as rapidly as culture.
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About Sean B. Carroll:
Sean B. Carroll is an award-winning scientist, author, educator, and film producer. He is Distinguished University Professor and the Andrew and Mary Balo and NIcholas and Susan Simon Chair of Biology at the University of Maryland, and an Investigator of the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was formerly Head of HHMI Tangled Bank Studios, and led the Department of Science Education from 2010-2023. He is also Professor Emeritus of Genetics and Molecular Biology at the University of Wisconsin.
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