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@roxee57 Says:
And that explains why humans can’t change their sex.
@culinan1732 Says:
Bro basically just explain racism down to a science
@Marker1313 Says:
Setting aside the possibility of the divine for a moment, evolution is a passive process. It’s not conscious, active, intentional or strategic.
No different than a newly formed stream flowing down a valley. Its path will be determined by both its own characteristics and the environment it is flowing through. And the path will change as either its characteristics or the environments change.
As far as we are aware, we are the only species on the planet that is aware of this passive process. Which gives us the unique opportunity to engage with it actively. Thus, another threshold for dynamic change has been reached for this passive evolution our world has been experiencing.
@betoperalta701 Says:
Survival of the "good enough"
@steven458791 Says:
‘or alien import’
@Thomas-8595 Says:
this video is cool becuase i always knew that dna was like your building blocks but i didnt know what it acctually did
@justinharper4727 Says:
You lost me at the replicator. It just forms spontaneously and then starts reproducing.....ummm how exactly??
@thefairygodmotherhouse Says:
Planet formed in 19 minutes during a quasi failed Josephson junction of the bioenvelope. The math of the magnetosphere and mountains and the great pyramid prove it once you use the crash scars of the planet to finish Einstein's general relativity.
So what right?
Have all the answers and no one cares yet
@SleepyBaseball-kvn Says:
It's not survival of the fittest animal or individual it's survival of the fittest survivor. Those that survive live on and teach others how to survive.
@mannysr67 Says:
The squirrel callout does not make sense. Getting eaten only protects one animal, not the entire family. The predator was only ever going to eat one! Kin selection disproven.
@AmanSingh-d7g1w Says:
10:02
@DouglasBodde Says:
Kin selection as the only explanation for cooperation isn't current. Michael Nowak, E.O. Wilson and others have come to the conclusion that genes do not control sacrifice/cooperation decisions. It occurs often around family units but that is correlation not causation.
@lildefiant448 Says:
I honestly used to love this channel, and I still want to, but when a science channel is accepting a sponsor that directly cooperates with ChatGPT to "scrub articles".... I can't help but wonder what the thought process here was. I wa so astonished I actually rewatched the ad thrice so I knew I heard you right. All the harm ChatGPT and other LLMs or AI products have been and continue to do, and yet I find people I once respected supporting them and giving them a larger platform so more harm can be done.
@Sadwetmouse Says:
Me when I'm owned by private equity:
@TheGraemeEvans Says:
Its survival of whatever traits lead to reproduction. Doesn't matter if it's individual, group or species traits. The engine of evolution is sexual reproduction, and surviving long enough to reproduce more successfully than others.
@z0mn1a Says:
your constant implication of randomness with nothing to back it up.
The very word 'random' is incredibly vague, like the word infinite, and almost definitely does not apply here.
Please stop implying something to be a reason just because the opposite seems to be untrue to you.
@CaddoVDeeds Says:
A frog kissed by a princess turning into a prince is a fairy tale. But if a frog turns into a prince by itself over millions of years, that’s called evolution.
Evolution is the dumbest theory in the world. Evolution is not Science - Science is something that's observable, testable, repeatable, falsifiable. Please do a debate with Kent Hovind.
@Studybro-n8d Says:
0:40 Indians also like it
@jakenorman1278 Says:
GOD is
@قطوف.العلا Says:
Why working so hard to prove evoultion is not a myth
@arv2ms Says:
Many thanks ❤
@TheBellBearingHunter69 Says:
3:27 - thanks for the disclaimer, that all of that is just hypothesis and not known, since nobody can tell with 100% certainty how the universe came into being and how life came from nothing and I think even in science or especially in science it's important to stay that humble, that there are things we might never know, but can only speculate about.
@owiselgameel Says:
interesting theory but:
how do we the UV radiation at first
and where did the first building blocks come from
@agtv_media Says:
That's epimeletic behavior 2:16 indicates higher intelligence. You're seeing polar bears today adopt orphans. If they didnt, they'd go instinct. Esp tribal animals w prosocial behavior like orcas and humans, the hoarders pose a threat to the species. Selfishness is a gene that must get stamped out, hence ostracization.
@skibbidy_ahh_morshu Says:
i feel like either i missed something in the gene-evolution simulation, or he didn't explain it: i.e., are the basic replicators 'programmed' to replicate—do they 'want' to replicate?—or do they replicate by chance? because at one point in that simulation he suddenly started talking about them developing more complex tools for themselves to help themselves replicate, implying that at that point they DO want to replicate... but i'm sure at the start of the simulation he was saying that they just replicated by chance, that they had no INTENTION to replicate basically. maybe i missed it, but i don't think he told us at what point these replicators switch from randomly replicating just because physics makes them do that, to intentionally replicating in order to further their own species...
@meesamabbas6993 Says:
0:52 I have a pretty decent understanding of evolution but I would still not agree with your answer.
I think, poop doesn't smell bad so that we don't get attracted to it, instead since poop is very harmful to us, we actually development uncomfortable feeling towards its smell.
You probably mean the same thing, but there is certain difference in explanation.
@verdantia Says:
was that bam rodriguez the boxer😂 very similar
@dylsegno349 Says:
I was taught when I was kid that a species' main objective is to keep its species alive. I'm not sure how scientifically accurate this is but I think it makes sense as a goal.
That being said I think it's more complicated than where something tells something that if you're with a group, you'd likely survive more. Like how those herds crossing the river nile relying on sheer numbers for others to survive and thus they might probably survive more, boiling it back down to individual rather than an altruistic motive.
@ni2471 Says:
This concept seems to be so clear and understandable. I don’t understand how so many people neglect the idea of evolution and stick to religious explanations of the creation of living beings
@Roz1922-y1h Says:
Evolution is more than just survival of the fittest individual, its also survival of the group and fitness is not always obvious, there is randomness with guardrails in the system. Suppose group A randomly spawns altruistic individuals. Group B does not. Over millions of years that random altruistic individual need only to provide some benefit to the group to insure the survival of random altruism.
@JamesHood-s9x Says:
Never go away
I am 85 and still learning
@Lazydreamerr28 Says:
But how were the blobs made? UV light? Heat? Is there another video on that? Please…
@KingDoFlam Says:
Yo Tom Pearl😂
@exoticspytravel Says:
Why it is no reasonable to see yourself as a flesh robot controlled by the gene's software?
To our best knowledge and direct observation this seems to be 100% true.
Only our selfishness (that likes to see us as "special") can argue about that, but that might be not the voice of reason (that aims to our own good) but the hidden voice of the selfish genes (who use you as a vehicle for their own survival).
In my opinion, you can change the reality only if you dare to see it as it is (and not through some pink glasses).
For example, accepting that nature created you just to use you without your consent can really help you:
- to question your default zombie decision making methods and design a better one;
- to redirect your resources (energy, time, intelligence etc) to bring more benefits to you.
Yes, that might make you look weird to others and maybe to yourself. But that's only an emotional blackmail used by the genes to make you obey to their needs.
Once you will realize that no one loves/cares about you if there's no benefit from them, well, there only a sane approach left is:
- to not trust anyone;
- to 100% care for yourself and
- to love the others without any expectation.
@Nottellinnoone Says:
Always something interesting and unexpected on this channel
@DM-dn7rf Says:
Genes cannot be selfish nor can other creatures. Only humans can be truly selfish.
@differentshadesofgrey Says:
Is it really true though? 😮
@By.Vivianne Says:
"We are robot machines" didnt know biology was an ultrakill reference
@harshit-sleeping Says:
so thats why veritasium thumbnails stand out via selection?
@lamont1901 Says:
I was eating bro…
@jimmycarter1342 Says:
And every species surviving is fit so why not keep every species alive as long as we can until that energy dissipates 😭
@Isnarlad Says:
9:26 i love when adverts actually have good products that we might want to use
@khemlatameshram5827 Says:
Are trees stable than humans or any moving organism ??
@charlesvan13 Says:
The intra species altruism is just a part of evolution. If that didn't happen there wouldn't be social species, like ants and wolves.
@offgame1654 Says:
is this video not a full adaptation of The Selfish Gene by richard dawkins himself?? excellent
@jmitterii2 Says:
Basically, the selfish gene isn't contained by one creature, but spread thru families.
And so long as it has it's portion to them, it's as if it is in multiple locations.
And the metaphor for selfishness is just that, the gene itself is not conscious in the same we animals are like humans who are aware and function in a tribe, civilization, etc. Or ants, bees, wood worms, etc. that function in a society of their own, or larger animals in packs or herds.
The "seflishness" is a larger zoom out emergent quality; what's actually happening is the genes expressed that are good will press forward those better genes, the ones that suck or dubious will drift away and fall out of newer generations. The genes themselves are just doing their micro biological chemical processes.
The genes themselves are semi robotic, with chances of dubious genes to drift away and toward some other gene that may become useful in the future based on their environment and changes to that environment over time.
I would rather change "seflish gene" as the metaphor, to the "most useful gene and hedge lotto gene" as the metaphor, it doesn't know its useful nor give two bangs and giggle, it doesn't think; that's a process of a mind typically brain and nervous system. More it's a tool box, and it's constantly updating its tool box, sometimes by chance... and sometimes it does make mistakes on the dubious genetic drift and suddenly environmental changes made the resulting drift detrimental and that particular species goes extinct; allowing for another species whose jackpot lottery of genetic drift happened to work for the new change in the environment.
There is an element of chance in evolution; in that environment may change and hidden genetic drift may be helpful or harmful in any event of this outside change; while sharpening the genes that are helpful to the existing environment.
@Teja-q9p Says:
i am at 0:26 my answer for that is "bad smell it is how the brain interpreted the specific chemical reaction of smell receptors and poop's small...... because we can actually change the small of the poop with some kind of smell changing pill(i dont remember the name of it), what i am saying is it's not the poop, it's how the brain interprets the specific data.
i think there can be some poop that smell very nice
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