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In the future, I can imagine that we will genetically modify ourselves using the genes that have doubled our life span since we were chimpanzees.

We have the ability to completely change our environment to go... to take on... to inherit, in a certain sense, things far beyond our DNA, and that's inheritable. And we can see evolution in action as our ideas evolve and undergo a kind of Darwinian selection not at the DNA level. And we can go off into space.

We are embedded in a biological world and related to the organisms around us.

Evolution is the fundamental idea in all of life science - in all of biology.

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.

Our world is built on biology and once we begin to understand it, it then becomes a technology.

The idea that you would affect evolution is a very profound thing.

We will create life from inanimate compounds, and we will find life in space. But the life that should more immediately interest us lies between these extremes, in the middle range we all inhabit between our genes and our stars.

Evolution, of course, is not something that simply applies to life here on earth; it applies to the whole universe.

The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations - rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.