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Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago
Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa. Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of...
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Our Lives Matter S1E11: Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today? If you focus on how many...
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Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology
There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think...
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Our Lives Matter S1E09: The Evolution of Life
Genes are molecules. Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes. For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the...
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Our Lives Matter S1E08: The Big Bang to the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy. Some of it condensed into matter. That set the universe in motion. It led to...
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Our Lives Matter S1E07: A Philosophy of Four Mathematical Laws
Math is the metaphysics of science. Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world. To tell a mathematical story...