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This Unusual Animals Are Cousins Of Another Very Specific Animal
Trace the connection between these unlikely animal relatives along with San Diego Zoo's Olivia Degn.
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Can You Guess What Animals Are Closely Related to Elephants?
Trace the connection between these unlikely animal relatives along with San Diego Zoo's Olivia Degn.
Professor Dave Explains
Introduction to Deuterostomia: The Second Mouth Animals
It took a very long time, but we are finally finished with the clade Protostomia, or first mouths. Now it's time to tackle Deuterostomia, or second mouths, a clade containing only three phyla. This will take some time, since one of those...
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Exploring Our Genetic Connection: Humans and Chimpanzees
In this video, the teacher discusses the genetic similarities between humans and chimpanzees, highlighting that humans share nearly 99% of their DNA with chimps. The teacher also explores the physical and social similarities between the...
Science ABC
Are Birds Reptiles?
According to phylogenetic classification, a "reptile" is any organism descended from the original group of reptiles, which includes birds. Thus, birds are reptiles by this method of classification, much like everything that descended...
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Adaptive divergence
Or adaptive radiation, the divergence of life forms from a common ancestor, as they adapt to different environments. A Twig Science Glossary Film. Key scientific terms defined in just 60 seconds using stunning images and concise textual...
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Natural Selection - Survival of the Fittest
Darwin's theory of Natural Selection reveals an intense struggle for existence: a constant fight between individuals, species, and their physical environment, where only the fittest survive. Biology - Adaptation And Evolution - Learning...
Curated Video
Are Birds Reptiles?
According to phylogenetic classification, a "reptile" is any organism descended from the original group of reptiles, which includes birds. Thus, birds are reptiles by this method of classification, much like everything that descended...
Curated Video
Uncovering Mysteries of Early Humans in the Atapuerca Mountains
The discovery of ancient hominin bones in Northern Spain's Atapuerca Mountains has significantly pushed back the timeline for human arrival in Europe to about 1.2 million years ago, predating previous estimates by around 500,000 years....
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Discovering Europe's Earliest Domesticated Dog
The remains of what is considered Europe's earliest pet dog, dating back to between 14,000 and 20,000 years ago, have been discovered in an Italian cave, shedding new light on the domestication process from wolves to dogs. This finding...
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GCSE Biology - Classification #80
Correction: When discussing the relationship between different types of bear - we mention that pandas aren't a type of bear - BUT THEY ARE! Woopsie. Sorry about that - we'll fix this in the future when we update these early biology...
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Interpreting a Cladogram
“Interpreting a Cladogram” will define and explain how to read a cladogram so that the student can tell how closely living things are related.
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Evidence of Evolution
A video explaining how embryology, anatomy, and genetics can be used as evidence for evolution.
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The Evidence for Evolution
A video entitled “The Evidence for Evolution” which explores the origin of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution and then focuses on the evidence used to study and support Darwin’s theory.
Brainwaves Video Anthology
Allison Kaufman - Animal Creativity and Innovation
Allison B. Kaufman, PhD is a research scientist with the Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Connecticut, where she also teaches as a adjunct professor in the departments of Marine Biology and Psychology....
Science360
Human Spark Project - Webcast with Alan Alda
Funded in part by the National Science Foundation, the television series, The Human Spark, engages host Alan Alda with dozens of scientists across three continents to get at the sources of human uniqueness through the lenses of...
NASA
Gravity Assist: Gardens at the Bottom of the Sea, with Laurie Barge
Laurie Barge, an astrobiologist at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, studies how plant-looking mineral structures called chimneys grow from chemicals found at the deepest depths of the ocean. In her lab she has glass vials and bulbs full...
Cerebellum
Prehistoric Man Human Evolution - The Human Family Tree
Beginning in the late nineteenth century and throughout the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and paleoanthropologists have given the world evidence of the physical and cultural development of humans. This video looks at how...
Curated Video
The Pentadactyl Limb: Evidence of Evolution and Adaptation
The video explains the concept of the pentadactyl limb, which is a limb with five digits, found in all four-limbed vertebrates. The video provides examples of how the pentadactyl limb has been adapted to suit different uses in various...
Bizarre Beasts
The Bizarre Beast with Clear Blood
The crocodile icefish has clear blood, a genetic mutation that should have meant GAME OVER, but it didn't. It just happened in the right place at the right time.
Bizarre Beasts
How The Solenodon Became Venomous
The venomous mammal club is so small you’d think they’d all be closely related, but it turns out solenodons have been doing their own thing for a very long time.
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Understanding Evolutionary Trees: An Introduction and Example of Elephants
This video explains what evolutionary trees are and how they show the relationships and evolution of organisms or species. It discusses the general structure of an evolutionary tree, with organisms or species at the ends of branches...
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From 0 to 1 Data Structures & Algorithms in Java - Count Trees, Print Range and Is BST
Count the number of structurally unique binary trees that can be built with N nodes, print the nodes within a certain range in a binary search tree and check whether a certain binary tree is a binary *search* tree. This clip is from the...
Mr. Beat
Scopes Monkey Trial (Story Time with Mr. Beat)
Once upon a time an English naturalist and geologist named Charles Darwin came up with the theory of evolution. Evolution, now widely accepted as a theory, used to be very controversial. It rocked the entire world, as matter of fact. It...