The Evolution of Species

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From ernst mare when i took uh... it drove to evolution species a group of actually a potentially inner breeding natural populations reproductive isolated from other such populations okay so that's great but what about stegasaur? When you start looking at fossils you've no idea you end up going back one of the lot here in a lot there so it's a different species yesYes. It is absolutely like it's like these things with these characteristics right okay let's talk about some of the ethics of some of the moral history of the genetic age so uh...but i'm not a paleontologist if i were i'd have to go back to lumpson bumps right decided this is

Shermer and Cobb discuss: objections to genetic engineering (political, religious, cultural) • selective breeding • recombinant DNA • the ethics of genetics • patenting life • gene therapy • gene editing • CRISPR • literature and films on the dangers of genetic engineering • bioweapons • 3 Laws of Behavior Genetics and what people fear about it.

Matthew Cobb is a professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of Manchester. He is the author of six books: The Idea of the Brain: A History; Life’s Greatest Secret: The Race to Crack the Genetic Code; Generation; The Resistance: The French Fight Against the Nazis; Eleven Days in August: The Liberation of Paris in 1944; and Smell: A Very Short Introduction. He lives in England.