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Split of Biodiversity and Evolution

Biodiversity and Evolution

Evolution - science, history, Biodiversity, more

Evolution - science, history, Biodiversity, more

Big History - section 3.1

Big History - section 3.1

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The Human Family's Earliest Ancestors | Science| Smithsonian Magazine

Studies of hominid fossils, like 4.4-million-year-old "Ardi," are changing ideas about human origins (2022)


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Opinion | Should we edit our children’s genes? Would it be cruel not to? - The New York Times

Humanity’s Awesome, Terrifying Takeover of Evolution Walter Isaacson and Ezra Klein discuss the implications of humanity’s awesome, terrifying ... (2021)


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The Human Brain Has been Getting Smaller Since the Stone Age

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)


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Match and mix - How hybrids have upturned evolutionary theory

The origin of species is more complex than Darwin envisaged (2020)


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Why wonder is the most human of all emotions – Jesse Prinz | Aeon Essays

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)


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How plants evolved to make ants their servants

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)


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A journey to the underwater volcanoes where life may have erupted - Nautilus

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)


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The Very First Animal Appeared Amid an Explosion of DNA - The New York Times

Nobody knows what the first animal looked like. But many of its genes are still present in humans today... (2018)


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Prehistoric humans and archaic relatives paired off — twice : Research Highlights

Encounters with Denisovans have left their mark on the genome. (2018)


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How Cheese, Wheat and Alcohol Shaped Human Evolution | Science | Smithsonian

Over time, diet causes dramatic changes to our anatomy, immune systems and maybe skin color... (2018)


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Does Depression Have an Evolutionary Purpose? - Nautilus

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)


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With ‘Downsized’ DNA, Flowering Plants Took Over the World | Quanta Magazine

Compact genomes and tiny cells gave flowering plants an edge over competing flora. This discovery hints at a broader evolutionary principle. (2018)


Video

Music’s power over your brain, explained | Michael Spitzer

Humans are musical animals 4 million years in the making, explained by music expert Michael Spitzer. (2023)


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Can cells think? | Michael Levin

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)


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How Did Our Ancestors Evolve? | Big History Project

All life on earth shares a common ancestor. After the dinosaurs became extinct, biodiversity flourished. Website: https://www.bighistoryproject.com... (2020)


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Why Human Evolution Matters: Crash Course Big History 204

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)


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Human Evolution: Crash Course Big History #6

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)


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Threshold 6: Humans and Collective Learning | Big History Project

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)


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DNA Structure and Replication: Crash Course Biology #10

Hank introduces us to that wondrous molecule deoxyribonucleic acid - also known as DNA - and explains how it replicates itself in our cells. Crash ... (2020)


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The Evolutionary Epic: Crash Course Big History #5

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)


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Mini Thresholds Of Life | Big History Project

Travel through time in a rowboat to consider some of the "mini-thresholds" in the development of life on Earth... (2020)


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How Did Life Begin and Change? | Big History Project

A closer look at the Goldilocks Conditions for life, and an animated voyage through evolution on Earth... (2020)


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MIT AGI: Future of Intelligence (Ray Kurzweil)

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)


Website

Visually stunning tree of all known life unveiled online

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)


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