In the case of the incest taboo, our response has an obvious evolutionary explanation. But should we allow our judgment of what is a crime to be determined by feelings of repugnance that may have strengthened the evolutionary fitness of ancestors who lacked effective contraception?

I've often wondered, what is the evolutionary pressure that made our ancestors in the Veldt adapt and evolve to really enjoy pictures of galaxies when they didn't have any.

Louise Leakey asks, Who are we? The question takes her to the Rift Valley in Eastern Africa, where she digs for the evolutionary origins of humankind and suggests a stunning new vision of our competing ancestors.

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you and your ancestors?

you and your ancestors?

I think our ancestors

My ancestors were samurai,

Heed me, hon. Ancestors!

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Should Popes be ancestors?

The current crisis in evolutionary science does not imply complete rejection of this paradigm. Rather, it entails a major, progressive reorganization of existing knowledge, without undermining the fundamental tenets of evolutionary theory organisms alive today developed from significantly different organisms in the distant past dissimilar organisms may share common ancestors and natural selection has played a crucial role in this process.

Yeah. I think it's evolutionary.

You and your ancient ancestors?

And our ancestors of old?

And our ancient ancestors too?

You and your ancient ancestors?

And our ancestors of old?

And our ancient ancestors too?

One of my father's many ancestors.

So now you have an evolutionary excuse.

So in evolutionary scales, movements get better.

DG Well, you know, the people who are most skeptical about leaping to evolutionary explanations for everything are the evolutionary psychologists themselves.

These are our ancestors yours and mine.

My ancestors moved to the United States.

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process.

And it has not stopped its evolutionary path.

Because evolution works, we actually have some evolutionary tools.

We've developed this ability because it makes evolutionary sense.

There's a basic, profound acceleration of this evolutionary process.

Lying has evolutionary value to us as a species.

That's because they're spirit people. It's the ancestors.

What do we actually know about our ancestors?

Bring back our ancestors, if you are truthful.

Bring back our ancestors, if you are truthful.

I assume these are the Seth Lord ancestors.

If you look at our ancestors, the Neanderthals and the Homo erectus, our immediate ancestors, they're confined to small regions of the world.

And I said, You know what? These apples come from your ancestors, and your ancestors gave them the greatest honor they could give them.

It's really not a very friendly field for evolutionary biologists.

And this is an example of a successful evolutionary run.

We're sort of circumventing evolutionary programs that guide our behavior.

If you could cause an evolutionary decrease in virulence by cleaning up the water supply, you should be able to get an evolutionary decrease in antibiotic resistance.

Now this is an interesting chart, and this really gets at the fundamental reason why an evolutionary process and both biology and technology are evolutionary processes accelerate.

So my ancestors come from all over northern Europe.