Our Lives Matter S1E11: Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles

Our Lives Matter

Feb 08 2024 | 00:27:57

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Show Notes

How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today? If you focus on how many differences there are between one species and another, you’ll be overwhelmed with information. But if you look at the critical differences between one species and another, suddenly it’s a coherent story. Now you’re looking at how few differences it took between one species and another to make all the rest of the differences evolve. What had to change in those original cells to make the simplest plants evolve? Then the simplest animals? Then more…

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