Biology

Hurry up and evolve!

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At TED2006, Robert Wright proposed that humans are still evolving, culturally and morally — progress that picks up where genetic evolution left off. But some scientists now say we’re still evolving genetically as well. Though conventional wisdom says humans have remained essentially unchanged for 100,000 years or more, new evidence points to a faster-paced evolution still going on today. Wired News takes a look at the evolution of theories on evolution, and several TEDsters weigh in, including futurist Ray Kurzweil (TED05), who thinks it’s time we took evolution into our own hands.