Everything Evolves: Why Evolution Explains More than We Think, from Proteins to Politics.

Mark Vellend is a professor of biology at the Universite de Sherbrooke and a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. In this lecture, inspired by his new book Everything Evolves, Mark Vellend reveals how evolutionary dynamics shape the world as we know it and how we are harnessing the principles of evolution in pursuit of many goals, such as increasing the global food supply and creating artificial interlligence capable of evolving its own solutions to thorny problems. A sweeping tour of the natural and social sciences, this is an essential introduction to one of the two key pillars to the scientififc enterprise and an indispensable guide to understanding some of the most difficult challenges of the Anthropocene.