The Most Controversial Idea in Biology: TL;DR

Derek Muller (Veritasium) walks you through the evolution playbook—from the very origin of life and how genes mutate to simple computer simulations that show natural selection in action and what traits actually get passed down.

Along the way he dives into kin selection, Richard Dawkins’s “Selfish Gene” perspective and even teases the idea that all of this might just be one big simulation, featuring insights from top researchers in molecular biology and evolutionary theory.

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