Adaptation

TED Radio Hour

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Social Sciences, Society & Culture, Science, Technology

4.4 • 21.3K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Humans adapt to physical and creative challenges in remarkable ways. How do we do it, and what happens when we can't? In this episode, TED speakers share inspiring stories about our capacity to adapt. Guests include runner Christopher McDougall, nonprofit founder Daniel Kish, author Rich Benjamin and artist Janet Echelman. (Original Broadcast Date: November 20, 2015)

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0:00.0	Hey, it's Guy here.
0:03.0	So just for a second, imagine early humans, right?
0:06.5	Living in a jungle or a savanna, like two million years ago.
0:10.6	And we weren't the biggest animal or the strongest or the fastest.
0:14.6	We couldn't swim or even climb very well.
0:17.2	So how did we survive?
0:20.1	Well in this episode, we explore some of the unbelievable ways humans have learned to adapt.
0:25.8	It's called adaptation and it originally aired in November of 2015.
0:32.5	This is the Ted Radio Hour.
0:38.5	Each week, groundbreaking Ted Talks.
0:40.8	Ted Talks.
0:41.8	Ted.
0:42.8	Ted, technology.
0:43.8	Entertainment, design.
0:44.8	Design.
0:45.8	Is that really what's 10 for us?
0:46.8	I've never known that.
0:47.8	Delivered at Ted Conferences Around the World.
0:49.8	It's the gift of the human imagination.
0:50.8	We've had to believe in impossible things.
0:53.8	The true nature of reality beckons from just beyond.
0:58.3	Those talks, those ideas adapted for radio.
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