How life on Earth adapts to you and me | Shane Campbell-Staton

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🗓️ 5 July 2023

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

We tend to think of evolution as a slow, gradual process playing out over millions of years. But evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell-Staton says nature is now changing at breakneck speed to keep up with the world humanity has built. From tuskless elephants who escape poachers to wolves living in the radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Campbell-Staton unpacks how life is rapidly adapting in surprising ways -- and asks us to rethink how we can protect the planet's biodiversity.

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0:00.0	Ted Audio Collective
0:11.0	You're listening to Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:14.2	Human activity is driving rapid change in the evolution of our planet's creatures.
0:20.6	Evolutionary biologist Shane Campbell states, sees that change in real time.
0:25.5	In his talk from Ted 2023, he unpacks the ways we humans have fundamentally altered
0:31.2	Earth's ecosystems and how to protect the planet's biodiversity for future generations.
0:37.7	After a short passage.
0:42.0	Support for this podcast comes from BCG.
0:44.4	What you're about to hear is a work of imagination, but not fantasy.
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0:52.8	a future where we've radically reduced carbon emissions and saved ourselves from climate
0:57.4	catastrophe.
0:58.4	From the future of travel to food and fashion, what might life be like in a world that
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1:24.6	So I'm an evolutionary biologist.
1:27.8	The thing I love most about evolution is the story.
1:35.0	Evolution is a single story that links every species, every branch in the tree of life
1:40.4	together.
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