The video “The Most Controversial Idea in Biology” takes you on a whirlwind tour of evolution’s biggest hits: from why poop smells bad and how life even got started to gene mutation, simulating evolution, and the nuts and bolts of natural selection. Along the way you’ll learn what traits we really pass on, how kin selection works, and why Richard Dawkins called genes “selfish.”
Derek Muller taps top experts like Jack Szostak, John Sutherland, Joanna Masel and Gerald Joyce to break down these head-spinning concepts with fun simulations, magnetic molecular kits and even emperor penguins—making some of biology’s stickiest ideas surprisingly intuitive (and entertaining).
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