Veritasium’s The Surprising Truth About 4 Billion Years of Evolution is a whirlwind tour that kicks off with the surprisingly stinky question of why poop smells, then leaps back to life’s molecular beginnings. Along the way you’ll learn how tiny gene mutations spark big changes and how researchers actually simulate evolution in the lab.
From there, it unpacks natural selection, dives into kin selection and Richard Dawkins’ Selfish Gene idea, and even teases the notion that our entire evolutionary story might feel like one grand simulation.
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