- Published on: 11 June 2019
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As a scientific concept, evolution was revolutionary when it was first introduced. With the help of all three of our hosts and the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History’s new Deep Time Hall, we’ll try to explain how evolution actually works and how we came to understand it.
This episode was written by Darcy Shapiro.
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COMMENTS: 40
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Tessa T 1 days agoI've been to see the new Smithsonian Exhibit! My son and I met friends their earlier this month. It was really cool! I'd like to go back after the school year starts when we have more time and it is less crowded.
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Richard Deese 4 days ago
EDICT = Evolution: Diversifying into Infinite Combinations (Theoretically). :o) Thank you! 𝓡𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲 𝓣𝓲𝓴𝓴𝓲.
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Vincent Telfer 1 weeks ago
micro-macro that would involve DNA evolution the micro with macro making it more complicated along with climates and earths evolution
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Imperial D 1 weeks ago
I have a QUESTION. DOes anyone know the answer to this or know a link where they disuss it? --So if all life originated from a very primitive organism. Did that organism, have the DNA of all living things that came after it? Or did tha information evolve?
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Mami nathan 2 weeks ago
But.. why evolution? Why it helps to survive. Why life wants to survive? not seeking for a philosophical or religious answer. Is it to fight entropy with complexity? If so in what way? I don't think intelligence was planned, we are an accident . Why does survival of life matters?
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Alina Vorobyova 3 weeks ago
Can you guys do a video on how carnivorous plants evolved? In particular, how is it that plants managed to develop the ability to both capture insects as well as digest them?
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Sandman 3 weeks ago
Best channel on youtube. Would be cool if more episodes had alternating presenters like this.
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niller 3 weeks ago
Thank yoyu so much for yet another great video! But: mendel was a german speaking austrian from silesia, which only later became part of the chech republic.
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The Funky Samoan 3 weeks ago
Mendel was not Czech but German Bohemian and would have considered himself a German-Austrian. Besides that minor error you guys did a great job. Thank you.
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TrollBuster 3 weeks ago
I would love to see a collaboration between Eons, Smarter Everyday, and It's Okay to Be Smart. Make it happen!!
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Juho Lehto 4 weeks ago
Hello. First of, I have to thank all the people working on PBS Eons content, for they are downright spectacular! I would like to bring up a topic that PBS Eons might want to answer sometime in the future.How it is possible that only primates were able to evolve a species as intelligent as Homo Sapiens? How come no other order, or even class were able to evolve a species with comparable intelligence?In the videos in this very channel, we've been presented with most extreme evolutions and species nobody at a glance could guess are related, but indeed are. So how come genus Homo was alone in developing such intelligence as we have?If ability to make tools and use tools was the primary trigger in evolution of brains to this stage, why do we still have primates that are, well primitive? Shouldn't most of them have evolved higher intelligence by now? After all, they all do have hands to pick up those stones and to make tools with, and eventually discover you can spark a fire if you hit two stones together enough times.In a nutshell, why there are no lizard(wo)men around competing with humans for resources. Cue Doctor Who theme music.
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Hollow Voices 1 months ago
I'd like to propose a new method of Evolution. Forced Evolution. Basically setting the environment a certain way and grooming a species to adapt to it over x amount of time. Would likely only work easily on species that have very short life cycles.
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EL SCIENCE 1 months ago
The first guy talking in this video kinda looks like the science teacher from Stranger Things.
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mermaidfinn 1 months ago
we learned about this first concept of evolution in my 2nd grade where we were given tongs, tweezers, cups, and other varying kitchen tools and we had to pick up beans from different surfaces - this showed my 8 year old brain that different ecosystems required species to adapt different tools (beaks/evolutions) in order to survive. really thankful i had a cool teacher like that and i love these videos for reteaching me and in more depth.
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Arpitha Mallikarjun 1 months ago
Seems like whole evolution is like Machine Learning technology. This makes me think we might be inside the matrix.
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Compscript 1 months ago
I read the comments and notice that the religious nuts are speechless to this video.
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Hudson Warehouse 1 months ago
Wow. David H. Koch Hall?All Three of You Just Needed a Pay Check. Yeah?
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Eric Chapman 1 months ago
that's all great and what not that our theories of new species creation came from 1953 before we knew about DNA... but what now since we know chromosome pairs cant mate. How do you evolve more or less chromosome pairs?? We left out the virus deposition of genes as an evolutionary thing right?
Kelly , you are absolutely adorable.