Veritasium’s latest video starts with a quirky look at why poop stinks, then catapults us back to life’s beginnings by simulating how simple molecules might’ve snapped together, mutated and competed to kick off evolution. Along the way you’ll get hands-on with magnetic “Snatoms,” learn how gene mutations and natural selection really work, and see how kin selection and Dawkins’ Selfish Gene shape who we become.
With insights from top researchers like Jack Szostak and John Sutherland, the video breaks evolution down into bite-sized segments—covering everything from what gets passed on in our DNA to why life’s story is, in essence, the world’s biggest simulation.
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