Sometimes trailblazers of science aren't famous like Darwin or Pasteur. Sometimes they're humble Abbots, just growing peas in the back of their Abbey. This is the story of Gregor Mendel and how his work was done, lost, then found again....

Overview of how chromosomes were first proposed as the carriers of Mendel's 'heritable factors' (what we now call 'genes'). [10:58]

Learn how our traits make up our personality by taking a look at different psychologists' perspectives on how the Trait Theory came to be. [10:00]

Hank talks about population genetics, which helps to explain the evolution of populations over time by combing the principles of Mendel and Darwin, and by means of the Hardy-Weinberg equation. [11:03]

After Darwin introduced the world to the science of evolution, his cousin put his own spin on these theories. Francis Galton decided natural selection could be used to make the human race "better" and came up with Eugenics which led to...

Even basic evolutionary trees reveal insights into how different species are connected. Learn how to interpret and create them in this tutorial. [2:43]

An episode of "Dinosaur Train" discussing the traits of a triceratops that allow it to ward off potential predators. [12:30]