certain jamieson's fear is about the future that one day human arrogance shortsightedness and greed will extinguish all life on earth. next up we have this week's viewer question. it's about the history of humanity and takes us back into the mists of time. we said water lopez granados from mexico wants to know. how old is human kind scientific opinion is divided. it's also divided on the question of what exactly sets our species apart. is it the invention and creative use of tools. no other animals also find creative uses for tools. the answer is to be found in the human. genome. humans' closest relatives the great apes we share more than ninety eight percent of our d.n.a. with chimps but roughly five million years ago human and chimp lineages are believed to have diverged. our earliest ancestors premed prehistoric man and early humans were a motley bunch that's why researchers tend to see the human family tree as more of a bush with many branches. archeologists are always on earth thing finds indicating that our human ancestors were scattered all over the world from south africa to chin

one of the greatest things about bitcoin is that you are now individually sovereign as our friend jamieson loblaws likes to say so you had mentioned in a previous show that libertarians in this space they love it but they forget that there is a case look there's a history of cases and legal precedent of why certain laws came into effect so my question is kind of philosophically hair on one hand the bit big coin essentially makes governments obsolete in many ways they make central banks obsolete you can transfer value back and forth and you don't need intermediaries you don't need the whole system on the other hand you have some what i would call an arc of capitalist in some cases are libertarians who believe that this should be taken to the nth degree and we simply have no governance whatsoever no government at all where do you come in on that debate richard it's too easy to forget the harm that is laid upon people that may not be as smart as you. so you may be able to tell the difference between a real big corn and fake corn but most people's grandparents cannot and it could cost them the

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let's speak to david jamieson, the police and crime commissioner for the west midlands.nk you forjoining us. the figures in the west midlands, 431,000 total recorded crimes, and thatis 431,000 total recorded crimes, and that is an increase in line with what's happening across the country. what do you put it down to? crime has risen in the west midlands in accord with the rest of the country. we have lost over 2000 of our uniformed officers since 2010, and much of the work that we're not doing now, that we were doing previously, was on the prevention of crime. what we have seen, contrary to what the government has been saying, they have been telling us crime has been coming down. we are 110w crime has been coming down. we are now seeing crime going up, and some of those crimes really impact on peoples lives, like burglary and violent crime those crimes are going up. the home secretary, amber rudd, has been pretty blunt about this. towards the end of last year, she was saying police forces should stop complaining about police numbers and focus on crime prevention. that is