How Changes Over the Past Five Centuries have Moulded Evolution

Celebrating 500 years since Thomas Gresham's birth, Steve Jones asks 'How has the 16th-century affected the evolution of human beings, animals and plants?
A lecture by Steve Jones, Visiting Professor of Genetics 29 January 2019
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In celebrating 500 years since the birth of Sir Thomas Gresham, Professor Jones will examine how changes since the sixteenth century have affected the evolution of human beings and that of the animals and plants around us.
Professor Jones will deal with the accelerating shifts in plants, animals and humans as they cope with human activities, from gold-mining to global warming, and will speculate about where life might be on Gresham’s six- hundredth anniversary.
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[@impossibleexperiments]

Very interesting lecture, it's exciting to live in a times where so much is revealed about the human makeup.

[@johnking1868]

Excellent lecture in spite of the rather staccato delivery of the lecturer.

[@tammcd]

Warning: Homo stultus below.

[@LeViIain]

10:55 this is from the year 2000 and the black line shows the PREDICTION of the temperature from 2000 to 2004. So it's not even real data, its old predictions that turned out to be false (yes the climate is always rising but not this dramatically). He took the graph, edited the 2004* out and replaced it with 2016*. On top of this, both the x and y values differ from the previous graph (this is really important because by manipulating those, you can make 2 graphs that have no correlation between them look similar to each other). I don't deny climate change, the numbers are there and they are going slightly up every year, I just deny the fact that it is caused by CO2. There just isn't any reputable science paper proving this.

[@MrAndrew535]

With respect to the "modern", human evolution means nothing without first understanding development and no intelligent utterance can be made on the subject of human development without first understanding what constitutes authentic natural development which, within the entirety of academia no such understanding exists. There isn't even a model of what might constitute such a thing. All other references to human evolution are at best superficial and at worst irrelevant. So all that happened throughout this video is that 53 minutes and 15 seconds past with zero benefit or consequence. In short, nothing evolved from this "lecture".