Dr. Alice Roberts
"Our species emerged some 200,000 year ago.
About 60,000 years ago, we spread out from Africa."
"In the past, we were all dark-skinned."
Prof. Steve Jones: "In Shakespeare's time, about one English baby in three made it to be 21.
In the year of Darwin's birth, about one English baby in two, made it to be 21.
But now, about 99% of the English babies born make it to be 21."
Dr. Alice Roberts: "Will, certainly just personally, I'm asthmatic and I would've probably died as a child, (as a result of natural selection),
Prof: "Real reason i think that evolution has come to an end is partly modern medicine but
more important perhaps, modern engineering."
"Are you actually allowing people to choose whether they have a boy or a girl?"
"Anyone can choose here. Yep. They can choose a boy, choose a girl.
And we've done this close to 9,000 times now."
(Dr. Jeff Steinbert, The Fertility Institutes.)
"... how we evolve depends on how the world changes,
and how we change the world."
"Humans are pretty special but they're not that special.
99.9% of all animals have gone extinct and I'm pretty sure we'll go extinct in the end as well." Prof. Steve Jones
"In the broadest possible sense,
we haven't always been human,
and we won't always be in the future."
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