If you wanted to make a brilliant musician you might be able to do that. But notice that you don't know. For every musician you tried to make you'd make a lot of baristas. So another question though is what is of the greatest value? What trait do you want to select for? And it may be that the best thing to have in 50 years is resistance to Ebola virus. That may be actually much better than smart. Not great business. There is genetic resistance to AIDS. I actually did a television documentary in which I went to Nairobi. You were born in South Africa. I was born in Kenya. The time will come. Nothing is in the way.
Our evolutionary journey concludes with Neil deGrasse Tyson, Richard Dawkins, Bill Nye, Eugene Mirman, Jim Gaffigan and Maeve Higgins, recorded live at the Beacon Theatre in NYC.
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