The age of biological machines

"Isn't an astonishing idea that life can be programmed like a machine and then the components can be simply ordered online from a standardized toolkit, and this means that engineers and computer scientists and mathematicians can come together with biologists. This is a totally new way of doing science and it's happening right now".

"Playing God", presented by Adam Rutherford, BBC documentary, 2012

Human nature is rather technological

Mark Pagel, one of the world's leading experts on human evolution and development, talks about our species' capacity for culture, cooperation and community.