For the last 70 years, the dominant paradigm in evolutionary science has been the so called new synthesis. Widely publicized in recent years by Oxford evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins, the new synthesis unites Darwin s theory of natural selection with Mendelian genetics, which explains heredity.

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Evolutionary biologist Paul Ewald drags us into the sewer to discuss germs. Why are some more harmful than others? How could we make the harmful ones benign? Searching for answers, he examines a disgusting, fascinating case diarrhea.

As an evolutionary biologist, I'd say this our brains have evolved to help us survive within the orders of magnitude of size and speed which our bodies operate at. We never evolved to navigate in the world of atoms.

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Tom is studying to become a marine biologist.

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It's a great time to be a molecular biologist.

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Now, being a biologist, I was very curious about this.

Yeah. I think it's evolutionary.

When I was eight, I wanted to be a marine biologist.

When I was a young man, a young biologist in Africa,

In 1976, the biologist Richard Dawkins identified the unit of Darwinian selection as the selfish gene. The evolutionary story was now recast as a battle of genes to secure their survival over time by means of mutations, which create individuals (phenotypes) best adapted to pass on their genes.

It's not consciously self serving, but to a biologist, that's the logic.

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.

It's an inherent nature of an evolutionary process.

And it has not stopped its evolutionary path.

So as a field biologist, you just want to get encounters with these animals.

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.

In scientific reviews in Nature Genetics and Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, the evolutionary biologist Stephen Stearns and his colleagues set out to demonstrate that natural selection operates on contemporary humans. Supported by extensive genealogies, including centuries of church and national health registries, their argument is convincing.

But if you're a marine biologist, Maldives is not such a bad place to be.

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.

And actually, this work was done in the 1960s by a famous biologist named Malcolm Burrows.

It's never it's really never been a more exciting, or a vital time, to be a biologist.

When I worked on polar bears as a biologist 20 years ago, we never found dead bears.

Now, I'm a marine biologist, but I'm actually a bit of an old fashioned naturalist, I suppose.

It is really our greatest one of our greatest evolutionary sequences.

A marine biologist was attacked and drowned by a Leopard Seal at Rothera Research Station in July 2003.

What we're doing is we are seizing control of our evolutionary future.

I mean, these things sound trite, but they are deep evolutionary truths.

The combination of two fundamental human impulses the evolutionary propensity to move and the evolutionary propensity to distrust newcomers, who frequently brought disease, famine and war often gave rise to tension.

One more subject. Genetically engineered food crops, in my view, as a biologist, have no reason to be controversial.

And evolutionary psychologists think that these intuitions have a basis in the genes.