
Livewired
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Sep 7, 2026
Ep 170 "Will Mars Create a New Species of Human?" with Scott Solomon
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35:26David EaglemanHOST
And we could end up in a very different environment and the biology just figures it out because every experiment that we do seems to indicate that same sort of thing.
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35:36David EaglemanHOST
In my book, LiveWired, I talk about lots of examples of this.
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35:38David EaglemanHOST
My colleague, Mike Levin, has beautiful examples of the way that you just change the environment or change the genome of things, and it just figures it out and says, OK, cool, I'll build this without a problem.
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35:49David EaglemanHOST
So it is certainly imaginable that you could have a Martian species that we would at some point no longer call the same species
14 MINS LATER
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50:03David EaglemanHOST
But that's another interesting one.
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50:05David EaglemanHOST
Something as fundamental as dreaming.
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50:07David EaglemanHOST
I suggested in my book LiveWired that it may turn out that we are some of the only dreamers in the cosmos.
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50:13Scott SolomonGUEST
Oh, that's really fascinating.