The Royal Institution invited evolutionary molecular biologist and UC Santa Cruz professor Beth Shapiro to discuss just how deep our human influence on nature truly is—so deep, in fact, that we’ve genetically modified our surroundings thousands of years before we ever managed to do it in a lab.
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