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To be beautiful means to be liked. But can an entire biological species perish from excessive attractiveness? Can sexual selection directly conflict with evolutionary selection? And are we talking only about animals now, or about the prospects of the human race as well? About the evolutionary significance of beauty, as well as about genetic experiments and our gloomy prospects - bioinformatician Mikhail Gelfand talks for the Andersen People channel. Timestamps 0:00 Start 0:45 Peacock tail, handicap theory and Fisher runaway 6:05 Sexual selection versus evolutionary selection. Too beautiful to live? 11:41 Sexual dimorphism: who needs to be beautiful more? 13:55 Standards of human beauty: what do we like? And most importantly - why? 16:06 Do animals understand beauty? The appeal of the unusual 17:49 The mathematics of beauty: beautiful formulas, starfish and the Japanese 21:07 Advertisement =) 22:03 Why is symmetry attractive? 23:24 Do Animals Have Gender? 25:05 Bonobos and Other Sexual Behavior Anomalies 29:52 Genetic Tinder, Orthodox Jews, and a Bit of Eugenics for Each of Us 35:28 Can Genetic Engineering Protect Us from Viruses? 38:16 What Will Human Modification Lead to? The advantages of totalitarian societies and the dreams of dictators 43:56 GMOs: myths, real threats, pseudo-biologists and pink rabbits 51:55 Blitz 55:53 Top books on biology from Mikhail Gelfand 1:00:05 Question to Alexander Panchin Andersen vacancies: https://people.andersenlab.com/ We are on social networks: Facebook: / andersensoft Instagram: / andersencompany VK: https://vk.com/andersensoft LinkedIn: / andersen-softwaredev #gelfand #mikhailgelfand #sexualselection #sex #evolution #gmo #coronavirus