CRISPR and the Future of Human Evolution
Part 4 of our special series on Human Ancestry. Watch it all ▻▻ http://bit.ly/OKTBSHuman Watch Mutant Menu on BrainCraft: https://youtu.be/NrDM6Ic2xMM ↓↓↓More info and sources...
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[MUSIC] Is there something you’d change about yourself? Not just your hairstyle, but down at the genetic level? For the first time in human history, the ability to build and select genetic traits is within reach. Problem is, no one’s played this game before. [music] Mutation and selection. These two principles have molded basically all life on Earth, from pond scum to platypuses. Evolution’s rule book says changes to life’s instructions happen more or less at random, and not because an organism needs something, while selecting which traits are good enough to be passed on, is decided by… ya know, the universe. But humans are rewriting these rules in incredible ways, putting us in charge of our evolution. For starters, we’ve massively changed our e...
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[MUSIC] Is there something you’d change about yourself? Not just your hairstyle, but down at the genetic level? For the first time in human history, the ability to build and select genetic traits is within reach. Problem is, no one’s played this game before. [music] Mutation and selection. These two principles have molded basically all life on Earth, from pond scum to platypuses. Evolution’s rule book says changes to life’s instructions happen more or less at random, and not because an organism needs something, while selecting which traits are good enough to be passed on, is decided by… ya know, the universe. But humans are rewriting these rules in incredible ways, putting us in charge of our evolution. For starters, we’ve massively changed our e...
