Amoeba Sisters
Evolution
Explore the concept of biological evolution with the Amoeba Sisters! This video mentions a few misconceptions about biological evolution before providing a general definition. Then this video provides a description of four different...
PBS
Do Black Holes Create New Universes?
Physicists have been struggling for some time to figure out why our universe is so comfy. Why, for example, are the fundamental constants - like the mass of the electron or the strength of the forces - just right for the emergence of...
TED Talks
Ray Kurzweil: The accelerating power of technology
Inventor, entrepreneur and visionary Ray Kurzweil explains in abundant, grounded detail why, by the 2020s, we will have reverse-engineered the human brain and nanobots will be operating your consciousness.
TED Talks
TED: Progress is not a zero-sum game | Robert Wright
Author Robert Wright explains "non-zero-sumness" -- the network of linked fortunes and cooperation that has guided our evolution to this point -- and how we can use it to help save humanity today.
TED Talks
TED: The radical potential of self-evolving robots | Emma Hart
What if robots could build and optimize themselves -- with little to no help from humans? Computer scientist Emma Hart is working on a new technology that could make "artificial evolution" possible. She explains how the three ingredients...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Dragonflies in Kentucky
This video segment from Kentucky Life explains the differences between dragonflies and damselflies and explores their habitats. [3:32]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Geneticist Pardis Sabeti
In this video profile adapted from NOVA scienceNOW, learn about geneticist and rock musician Pardis Sabeti, whose innovative insights into natural selection demonstrated how beneficial mutations spread quickly through a population. [5:04]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Becoming a Fossil
This video segment describes how the Australopithecus afarensis skeleton known as Lucy could have been fossilized. Footage courtesy of NOVA: "In Search of Human Origins." [2:34]
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Pbs Learning Media: Evolving Ideas: Who Was Charles Darwin?
This video from Evolution highlights Charles Darwin's personal struggle to bring to light his theory of evolution through natural selection. [6:31]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Common Genetic Code
Paul Nurse describes his research that showed that humans share some genes with organisms as different from us as simple brewer's yeast. Footage from Secret of Life: "Immortal Thread." [4 min, 20 sec]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Origin of Species: The Making of a Theory
The epic voyages of Darwin and Wallace led each to independently discover the natural origin of species and to formulate the theory of evolution by natural selection. [30:51]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Origin of Species: Lizards in an Evolutionary Tree
In the Caribbean Islands, adaptation to several common habitats has led to a large adaptive radiation with interesting examples of convergent evolution. [17:45]
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Hhmi: Bio Interactive: The Origin of Species: The Beak of the Finch
Four decades of research on finch species that live only on the Galapagos Islands illuminate how species form and multiply. [15:54] An interactive version of the video with embedded questions for students is available through a link in...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Double Immunity
Dr. Stephen O'Brien of the National Cancer Institute discovers a 700-year-old mutation that makes a person resistant to HIV infection. From Evolution: "Evolutionary Arms Race."
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Unique Species of Kentucky's Green River
This video from Kentucky's Last Great Places shows how the Green River has remained unusually clean and why it is home to several endangered aquatic species. [4:13]
Crash Course
Crash Course Biology #15: Speciation of Ligers & Men
Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. [10:25]
California Academy of Sciences
Ca Academy of Sciences: Science Heroes: Jack Dumbacher, Elegance of Evolution
See evolutionary biologist Jack Dumbacher explain how mathematical models can reconstruct the evolution of organisms. [1:38]