Humans.
"Evolution is the ultimate example of how much a simple learning algorithm can achieve given enough data. Its input is the experience and fate of all living creatures that ever existed. (Now that's big data.) On the other hand, it's been running for over three billion years on the most powerful computer on Earth: Earth itself." Pedro Domingos: The Master Algorithm
As the only known beings able to comprehend, humans are privileged to be able to appreciate unfolding evidence of the awesome scale of the universe, the natural world, and of deep history. Religion and its imaginary god(s) have held us back and could lead to our destruction. The future is up to us. https://gopiswrong.net/religion.htm
how Lucy, the mother of humanity, changed our understanding of evolution
Population
Malthus
Demography