so charles darwin and the building where having this, sharon is named after him. this says live on earth appeared in the small pond created from rainfall. you are saying life appeared from the higher thermal event on the bottom of an ocean is wrong. 1 this is a strange thing about darwin dough and was a visionary scientist. and he was right about something very important, which was the theory of natural selection. he was wrong about all kinds of details . he was completely wrong about how genes work, for example, on the origin of life. well he, he wrote to a short paragraph in a letter to a friend of his that was never published. where he imagined that life might have started in a warm part on land. no. i'm said that it's far too soon for science. me thinking about these questions. so it's very easy. i think a lot of how small, really, just people like to see, go in is equivalent to being a profits. and that if you can show that darwin was wronged about one thing that he must be somehow wrong about everything though it was a scientist. scientist saw a wrong almost

and professor at harvard and duke universities and earned the nickname of the natural heir to charles darwin friend steven pinker, cognitive scientist at harvard university. thank you very much for your time. that's quite a title to carry around, the natural heir to darwin. what made him so special? he to darwin. what made him so secial? . , to darwin. what made him so secial? .,, ., , , , special? he was a superb biologist _ special? he was a superb biologist. he _ special? he was a superb biologist. he said - special? he was a superb biologist. he said most i biologist. he said most children went to a bug phase and he never left his. truly an expert on everything to do with insects, particularly ants. he tested on biodiversity, how many species in a given region, what causes there to be diversity of species or a small number, does it depend on area, migration inward and outward? he was a great synthesiser. he probably came to attention when he wrote a book or a sociobiology, attempting to formulate laws of behaviour rooted in darwin's theory of natural selection. rooted in darwin's theory

and professor at harvard and duke universities and earned the nickname of the natural heir to charles darwincampaigned to halt the rapid global decline in biodiversity. i've been speaking to his close friend steven pinker, who's a cognitive scientist at harvard university. and he told why he thought e0 wilson was so special. he was a superb biologist. he had said most children go through a bug phase, he never left his. he was truly an expert on everything to do with insects, particularly ants. beyond that, he formulated laws and tested them on biodiversity, how many species are in a given region, what causes there to be a diversity of species or a small number, does it depend on area, does it depend on migration inward and outward, but he was a great synthesiser. he probably came to most people's attention when he wrote a book called sociobiology which attempted to formulate laws of behaviour, rooted in darwin's theory of natural selection. rooted in darwin's theory of naturalselection. he rooted in darwin's theory of natural selection. he had chapters on insects, reptiles, on fish, on prima

when charles darwin wrote on the species, he starts to notice they have inherited traits. come up with this notion that there is an entity and hands-on genetic information. it turns out to be this acid, some molecule in our system called dna and you look at the structure of the dna, fourth letters. it was like a coating machine, it's a molecule so with those letters, three billion in the genome and the curves all the genetic information. the patternin here, 2000 were ae to sequence the gene. it's the human genome project. i thought that was pretty amazing, on the cover of "time" magazine and the important thing is they rewrite the genes that's what they did. >> the human genome project made the roadmap and now it's one of those many you talkth about in e book spearheaded and found the root to gene editing so in then book you get detailed, it's comprehensive but if you can walk us through because i think crisper is a little confusing to people because you're talking about dna but messenger rna, mrna, proteins, give us a lehman version if you don't mind laying out the scienc

this was a man who of course was born any kind charles darwin was still alive. and at the time where however obscene and absurd we find it today, the scientific view was that there was a hierarchy of the races. i am not sure that he can be terribly much criticized for taking the view of that science. however, one of the things he very much did feel was a duty of profound responsibility on the british and the british empire to take the native people. he was incredibly proud and their numbers increased so dramatically, especially in india, under the rule of the british. it doubled in fact in the course of the rule of the british empire. it gave them tremendous pride. he was also willing to put on the line for nonwhite people. he did it again and again. we see this and sue dom or he fought for the abolition of slavery. and in black lives it mattered to winston churchill. he sought in the northwest territory was protecting the tribesmen you see in the culinary's as well. i think there's a huge difference between the actions and including some unpleasant jokes. he ne

understand the gene but rewrite the gene and the history that we talked about giddens in 1850 when charles darwintes on the origin of species and this monk named gregor mendel is breathing peas and he starts to notice they have inherited traits so from the beats of darwin to the properties of mendel's peas we come up with this notion that there's some entity that is eternal that hands-down genetic information and eventually turns out to be this nucleic acid. some molecule in our system calleddna . and we don't know watson and crick, they figured out the structure ofdna . that has four letters and it's like a coding machine and just like a microchip but it's a molecule. so with those four letters, there's 3 billion pairs of them in our human genome and that determines that i get gray hair at a certain point. it codes all my genetic information but the thing about it is , and in 2000 we were able to sequence the human gene. as you said, that's called thehuman genome project . everybody thought that was amazing. they put it on the cover of time magazine but the thing is that really didn't do much. a

but this was a man who, of course, was born in the time that charles darwin was still alive, at that time whenobscene it might be today, that there was a hierarchy of the races. and so i'm not sure that he can be terribly much criticized for taking the view of the rest of the science. however, one other thing he did very much feel was that there was a duty of profound responsibility on the british in the british empire to take care of the native peoples of the empire and to promote them. he was incredibly proud that their numbers increased so dramatically, especially in india under the rule of the british, doubled, in fact, in the course of the rule of the british empire. this gave him tremendous pride. and he was also willing to put his life on the line for nonwhite people. he did it again and then. you see this in the sue gong where he fought for the obligation of slavery, for example. black lives mattered to winston churchill. you see it in the northwest frontier where he was protecting the punjabi tribes from other tribes further to the north. you constantly see it when he was un

but this was a man of course was born in a time that charles darwin was still alive at a time when however obscene and absurd they might find it today, and the scientific view was there was a hierarchy. i'm not sure he can be terribly criticized for taking the view that science however, one of the things that he did very much feel that the was a duty of profound responsibility on the british and the british empire to take care the native people and to promote them and he was incredibly proud and the numbers increased so dramatically especially in india under the rule of the british. and it doubled in fact in the course of the rule of the british empire this gave him tremendous pride and he was also willing to put his life on the and his words, which sometimes did -- as we mentioned earlier -- include these unpleasant to modern ears jokes. he never used the n word, which lots of racists did in those days. and he was somebody who recognized that his -- his entire wellspring of his drive came from imperialism. the best kind of imperialism, imperialism in which he wanted to give back and to so

but this was a man of course was born in a time that charles darwin was still alive at a time when however obscene and absurd they might find it today, and the scientific view was there was a hierarchy. i'm not sure he can be terribly criticized for taking the view that science however, one of the things that he did very much feel that the was a duty of profound responsibility on the british and the british empire to take care the native people and to promote them and he was incredibly proud and the numbers increased so dramatically especially in india under the rule of the british. and it doubled in fact in the course of the rule of the british empire this gave him tremendous pride and he was also willing to put his life on the line for non- white people and he did it again and again and we see this where he fought for the abolition of slavery and for example, black lives matter to winston churchill, and you see it also in the northwest area where he was protecting it the tribesmen from the treaties and various other tribes further to the north. you constantly see it when he was secretary

. >> this was a man who, of course, during the time that charles darwin was still alive and who at a- however obscene we might find it today, there was a hire or around key -- hierarchy for racism. so i'm not sure he can be totally criticized for taking the view of -- [inaudible] however, one other thing he did very much feel was there was a duty, a profound responsibility on the british and the british empire to take care of the native peoples and to promote them. he was incredibly proud as their numbers increased so traumatically, especially in india urn the rule of the british -- under the rule of the british. doubled, in fact, in the course of the british empire. and this was tremendous pride. and he was also willing to put his life on the line for non-white people. he did it again and again, and we see this in the sudan where he fought for the abolition of slavery, for example. .. with southern utah university professor, laura june davis, on civil war naval warfare. >> last class we talked about this video the key layers and we have to compare the confederacy in the united state