Prof. Steve Jones: Is human evolution over?

Evolution is all about understanding the past, but Professor Steve Jones (Professor of Genetics and head of the Biology Department at University College London) argues in this highly entertaining lecture that we now know so much about our own biological history that it is possible to make some informed guesses about the Darwinian future. He suggests the agents that lead to genetic change - mutation, natural selection, and geographic isolation - are losing their ability to do so and that human evolution is more or less over. Professor Steve Jones is one of the best known contemporary popular writers on evolution.

University of Sydney CHAST lecture, February 2009

(Part 1 of 2)

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Source: CHAST, University of Sydney

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