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We can reprogram life. How to do it wisely

Juan Enriquez · TED

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About

For four billion years, what lived and died on Earth depended on two principles: natural selection and random mutation. Then humans came along and changed everything — hybridizing plants, breeding animals, altering the environment and even purposefully evolving ourselves. Juan Enriquez provides five guidelines for a future where this ability to program life rapidly accelerates. "This is the single most exciting adventure human beings have been on," Enriquez says. "This is the single greatest superpower humans have ever had."

The talk

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Credits and licence

Institution
TED
Department
TED Talks Live
Speaker
Juan Enriquez
Year
2015
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Biology, Earth and environment, Psychology and the brain, History
Source
TED
Licence
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0, as TED states it. Non-commercial use only, and no changed versions. TED's terms
Attribution
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