Biodiversity and Evolution
Evolution - science, history, Biodiversity, more
Big History - section 3.1
Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)
Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)
Yep, brains are shrinking. I don’t mean to alarm you, but the average human brain size is shrinking. And we can’t blame reality T.V. or Twitter.... (2021)
The origin of species is more complex than Darwin envisaged (2020)
One emotion inspired our greatest achievements in science, art and religion. We can manipulate it – but why do we have it? ...If this story is r... (2019)
Plants are boring. They just sit there photosynthesizing while animals have all the fun. Right? Not so much. Take a look at the interactions betwee... (2018)
In Search of Life’s Smoking Gun “It was nearly midnight aboard the research vessel Atlantis. The ship was about a thousand miles west of Costa R... (2018)
Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)
Encounters with Denisovans have left their mark on the genome. (2018)
Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)
I had a tough time in high school. Like many other young adolescents, I saw myself as fundamentally flawed, and felt a searing isolation.… ... (2018)
Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. (2018)
Humans are musical animals 4 million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer. (2023)
We know that humans are an intelligent species. But this biologist breaks down the intelligence of each of our cells — and it will blow your mind.. (2023)
All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)
This week on Crash Course Big History, Emily is talking about process of human evolution, and the knack for innovation that has allowed humans to b... (2020)
In which John Green and Hank Green teach you about how human primates moved out of Africa and turned Earth into a real-life Planet of the Apes. And... (2020)
About 200,000 years ago, man evolved to become the most important force for change on the Earth's surface. What makes us so different from other li... (2020)
Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)
In which John Green, Hank Green, and Emily Graslie teach you about evolution. So, in the last 3.8 billion years, life on Earth has evolved from sin... (2020)
Travel through time in a rowboat to consider some of the "mini-thresholds" in the development of life on Earth... (2020)
A closer look at the Goldilocks Conditions for life, and an animated voyage through evolution on Earth... (2020)
This is a talk by Ray Kurzweil for course 6.S099: Artificial General Intelligence. For this entire recording, Ray did not use slides, so the video ... (2018)
OneZoom is a one-stop site for exploring all life on Earth, its evolutionary history, and how much of it is threatened with extinction. (2021)