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Natural Selection
54mins
“How can all the diversity and, sort of, seeming order that's out there in the world emerge from a process dependent upon chance?”
13mins
“Chance invents and natural selection propagates that chance invention.”
7mins
“The idea of evolution by natural selection is, for me, probably the most beautiful idea in biology.”
2mins
The ocean is evolving, and it’s not based on the ‘survival of the fittest.’ Astrobiologist Betül Kaçar explains how it’s not competition that has kept the ocean alive, but collaboration.
43mins
"If we're related to every living thing on the planet, do we not have a special responsibility for every living thing on this planet? They are really all our relatives."
3mins
Don’t fall into the determinism trap. Everything is, in fact, random, says chemist Lee Cronin:
3mins
The mind-blowing theory that everything is evolving—from minerals to music—explained in 3 minutes by a Carnegie scientist.
7mins
Nobel Prize-winning scientist Paul Nurse defines the 5 core principles of life.
4mins
Some scientists see religion as a threat to the scientific method that should be resisted. But faith "is really asking a different set of questions," says Collins.
John Templeton Foundation
