Gregg Braden

about 200,000 years ago when we appeared.

And if that was the only one, you could say, well, maybe it's a fluke.

chromosome number seven.

I'm a musician when I'm not doing what I'm doing now, long before I was a researcher.

And one of the things I always used to wonder about, we share 98% of our DNA with chimpanzees, but you don't hear chimpanzees sing.

You're never gonna hear a chimpanzee sing Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven.

And you ask, well, why not?

I mean, 98% of the DNA is we share with them, but it's because of chromosome seven.

And for about 175 million years, this chromosome was stable in all primates, all of them, orangutan, gorilla, chimps, all the primates.

All of a sudden, there was this little switch happening.

of a couple of genes that connected our tongue and our brain and our jaw and we can sing and we can have complex speech like no other form of life.

It happened 200,000 years ago.

What are the odds of that happening when chromosome two is fusing?

I've worked with scientists my whole life, both in academia and in the corporations.

I was a problem solver for Fortune 500 companies through the late 70s, 80s, and 90s.

And one of the things I've seen about scientists is fascinating, is that there is one way of thinking that says we take all the evidence and we force it.

into a pre-existing model, like all the new discoveries trying to force that into Darwin's theory of evolution,

we allow the new evidence to lead to the story that it tells.

And this is where science is stuck right now.

Because the old theory, Darwin's theory of evolution is in trouble.