How Evolution Works (And How We Figured It Out)
- 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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https://www.biodiversitylibrary.org/page/2283958#page/490/mode/1up - Runtime : 12:10
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COMMENTS: 40
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ray salmon 1 weeks ago
Yeah I'm reading fossels by Prothero another owned author trying to convince the dogma of evolution to be true
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Casey Ray Harris. Esquire 2 weeks ago
Hey Kelly! Casey here, and I love you. Oh.. that was weird. I'm sorry
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Jonathan Larrarte 2 weeks ago
Darwin was not only well travelled and well read, he was well fed he apparently ate many if not all of the animals he discovered.
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AllSoulsLoved 3 weeks ago
No such thing as evolution: DNA proves we didn't evolve:1) Each DNA contains 100 million pages worth of instructions to build the entire body. Do instructions write themselves? Nope. Instructions don't write themselves. Behind every instruction is an 'instructor' who authored it. Carl Sagan said: "The information content of a simple cell has been established as around one trillion bits, comparable to about 100 million pages of the Encyclopaedia Britannica."2) Every genome is written as a quaternary molecular digital code: "All present life is based on digitally-encoded information." (American Academy of Sciences)3) Each cell contains hi-tech miniature organs (organelles - nucleus, golgi bodies, mitochondria, chloroplasts, etc.) - none of which are naturally found elsewhere - hence no natural explanation for their existence.
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Aydin Barnbrook 3 weeks ago
Christians should watch this stuff. At this point I think people who have access to the internet are just like ignoring facts. This is better than going to church. Make this explode pls.
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service asap 3 weeks ago
How does evolution explain identical twins with different DNA and different fingerprints?...
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Wichita Disciple 3 weeks ago
“The extreme rarity of transitional forms in the fossil record persists as the trade secret of paleontology. The evolutionary trees that adorn our text- books have data only at the tips and nodes of their branches; the rest is inference, however reasonable, not the evidence of fossils.""-Stephen Gould
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Fracking Saves 3 weeks ago
David Koch: a horrendous & evil billionaire whose name should not be associated with any scientific endeavor.
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peter papadimitriou 1 months ago
Great video I like to find out more the problem that I have a disability I'm a stroke and cardiac arrest survivor just to clarify and the one stupid question I have is if living things change over time including us humans, how come the change doesn't go from having one thing and the next generation its something else?
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Reviews You Can Use 1 months ago
If evolution are true, Is there a discovery of specie today that being evolb to new specie?
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Greg Zeng 1 months ago
A very brief version of evolution.11:11 > "TIME IS A KEY COMPONENT OF EVOLUTION"Other variables are much more important than TIME.If the breeding cycle is very short, then TIME is less required.Many "tricks" can be used to shorten the breeding cycle. Correct selection of species. Acting genetically, environmentaly, etc - simultaneously & sequentially. Increasing "randomness" via radiation, chemicals, etc.In my forthcoming book: "Non-human Cognitive Science", I show how cache systems (software) can use hardware to create "evolution". This evolution video does not show that evolution is software. Hardware (biochemistry here) comes in many forms, but it does not create evolution.
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Jeremy Poedel 1 months ago
Something can’t come from nothing. Matter cannot make itself. There is no examples of change of kind. The birds adapted but they always remained birds. There is no fossil examples of the transitions actually happening. A bird is a bird is a bird. It’s not evolution, it’s adaptation. Of course life is always changing, the earth changes. If you are telling me that all life arose from the sea, how did gills magically become lungs? How long did that take? There are fish today that have four flippers, they did not evolve into legs. What really gets me is the absolute certainty of these ideas and claiming to be strictly scientific when no evidence of the beginning or change if kind can actually be provided. DNA is the book of like that was designed. It is not just by accident.
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Taran O'Reilly 1 months ago
I think this is one of your best videos. Too bad it hasn't been viewed more.
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r4hnsn 1 months ago
Its a miracle !! my eyes just decided to grow, even though I was just a sightless blimp, and then somehow my pea brain also thought it better connect up some wiring to go with them.
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fivedriedgramsinsilence 1 months ago
There is no such thing as "macro and micro evolution'', just evolution.
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Scott DeGasperis 1 months ago
“Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution.” ― Theodosius Dobzhansky
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David McCaig 2 months ago
Man just observes what had already been set in motion and therefore deserves no credit for the genius of what he observes.
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Nate 2 months ago
Becoming quite addicted to this channel and having a decent understanding of both science and english while being a native french speaker I'm starting to seriously consider adding french subtitles on these videos. Though I've never done anything like that I'm sure I could figure it out.
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Sophia Sourkraut 2 months ago
I wanna watch When Whales Walked, but it's not available outside the U.s. :(
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Tamara Molina 2 months ago
Fantastic summary with awesome attention to oft-forgotten scientists in the history of the evolution of evolution theory!
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Eternal - Fire 2 months ago
I went to the smithsonian on my school trip to Washington but it was still in renovation.
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Sophie Shenkal 2 months ago
This is my favorite channel on YouTube. Thank you for existing so that I can learn about all of these incredible things 🙏🙌
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Joel M 2 months ago
Please send this video to ray comfort and every other nutbag that does not think evolution is true!!!
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The FPV Life 2 months ago
Meteor strikes has a lot to with our evolution. It altered and allowed we humans to evolve.
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Andy Miron 2 months ago
And we still evolve. Humans get larger och taller all the time.. Eat that you religions nuts. :D
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LegoCookieDoggie 2 months ago
um so why would the Koch brothers be okay with the theory of evolution and "that there are limited resources" and then proceed to destroy our planet?
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Alopias pelagicus 2 months ago
I literally just had to like the video immediately after they included Wallace. Thank you! However, Darwins theory was actually based on the Mockingbirds. Only later did the finches play a role.
If you don't believe in evolution you don't understand it.If you understand evolution it's easy to believe in it.