Extremely interesting!

I am full of admiration for all you bird lovers - ornithologists, scholars, field experts, scientists, hands-on, ground-level bird saviours .... I am just a lay person who loves to watch birds and do whatever I can for them (I maintain a wildlife garden that has been attracting at least 26 different species of daily visitors, at last count). I came online to find out how some passerines like the noisy miner of Australia (whom I consider thugs of the bird world, causing displacement and serious reduction of other species' numbers by attacking them in gangs) are able to cling on to the tips of branches through a whole night of lashing winds, as I see them do. I marvel at the structure and mechanism of their opposing toes.

Very interesting presentation. Lovely work (-: Marion

Absolutely fascinating! Thank you for your work and for answering a question that I often asked myself about remaining populations of rock doves.

What type of plant is the best? 🧐

Painting looks more likely a numbat, but they weren’t yet known in Sydney until c1830.

very nice. keeping it to the real

In fact, they always say that evolution happened, but they don't know how, they always evade the question, they are not able to explain what they claim to be a fact🤷‍♀🤦‍♀🤷. They do not know the origin of life. There are thousands of hypotheses that discredit each other being published every week and every week there is a publication of a finding that changes evolutionary history,🤦‍♀🤦‍♀🤦‍♀ but there is never an explanation🤷‍♀, they just say it happened without ever describing how, they always appeal to thousands of years and we have to have faith in their smooth talk. The truth is that this theory only holds up because it makes a lot of money from the publication of these circular argument articles.🤷‍♀

If Darwin's quote is correct, it is implicit in this lecture that the hypothesis of common ancestry does not hold.

Decarbonise the planet as an AI instruction sounds very ominous and dangerous

Replaying the tape of life and expecting a different road taken depends on a non-deterministic universe. Might be better to keep that can of worms closed.

I can't see your head. Kinda like The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

system of rings, perfectly nested, rings within rings within rings (mentioned @ 13:30 ) It reminds me of the blade-runner baseline test "cells within cells interlinked....."

Fascinating - as always. Thank you very much for a wonderful presentation.

Thanks for sharing!

I wanted to know how Weaver Birds " knew " how to build their beautiful elaborate nests without having been shown or taught. So I watched this and 50 minutes later am none the wiser.....!!

Once we begin to seriously consider the morphic field of parasites we will begin to understand the name para sites. The mistake we are making is to observe the behaviour and mind of these animals to be individual. It is obvious they are a group mind actuated of cosmic frequencies or spectral energy patterns

Teleonomy is pseudoscience. Teleonomists always do the same thing: list off a bunch of phenomena, create a straw man out of the modern synthesis and linear programmatic development, then "shoot it down" so they can magically swoop in with vague and misty "purpose" and "foresight" as though a future result could ever reach backwards through time and cause its own cause in the past, as if such a human-philosophical concept as "goal-directedness" could ever be tortured into an analogy for what is happening at the level of a single cell or in a tissue, etc. Epigenetics and control networks in no way require "purpose" or "goals" etc., and gene-focused evolution does not per se require that mutations are always "random" nor that they be caused by outside sources.

Thank you for a lovely video! We don't have sea cucumbers in the Baltic Sea, but after watching the presentation and listening to you guys talk you made me wonder what organisms clean up detritus here.

Thank you for talking about this inspiring woman!

great work! Very interesting!

Andrea: "The project took 5 years." Me: "How many children did she have to birth during that time?" How fortunate we are to have your research to bring Elizabeth Gould back to the forefront. I love John Gould's loose and general paintings. He was doing a version of "reverse" colouring before it was a thing. I could see a reverse colouring book with his paintings. He could be credited as ornithology artist Elizabeth Gould's husband. ;-)

I would love to know if someone did classic Mendel in terms where you follow all the offspring and then measure differences based on lineages, while you suppose differences in conditions to track the condition impact ....

Kennedy Hall's guest sent me here :)

People wouldn't be seeing them and finding print's which are very different from any other animals if they were extinct.

There's a good stuffed one in Beechworth Vic.

Thank you for making Catherine's lecture available here -- I wasn't able to listen live.

Singphos tribe were the first original tea drinker tribe of northeast India.

Fabulous video. Such an inspiring designer.

The "Satin Bowerbird" appears to be an Eastern Koel (aka Pacific Koel). Note the long tail.

I find it fascinating how little the word is getting across in academia that evolution essentially is pseudo science and should be retired at this point. Discovery of epigenetics alone... far less all the sequencing of genomes show mutation rates in many species now far too high to allow an evolution explanation most importantly the encode project showing humans never evolved 100 fold higher mutations than the limit it's not even a debate.

A useful initial study materials for starting Teaics. Thank you

Great talk, thank you so much! I hope that the host got to see our beautiful otters in Singapore. We love them so much and I have seen them several times.

Great extension to the knowledge I obtained by reading about Wallace. Thanks for the interesting lecture...would love a detailed lecture on Asa Gray, Joseph Hooker or Thomas Henry Huxley. So many interesting characters in Darwin's circle.

Brilliant thank you

A fascinating talk - what amazing plants! Thank you

Truly inspiring talk with a dynamic and passionate speaker! Please keep up the good work with conservation and research related to this extraordinary plant.

I wish one day I could see Rafflesia, I wanted to.

I could listen to Dr Erica all day. Marvellous!

Its weird how strongly they hold to their timeline when soft tissue has been dino bones....not fossil.

Fantastic talk - thank you very much! And well done re. the technical/visuals point of view: the image was very clear throughout the presentation, and so it was a pleasure to be able to see the blocks and the printed images!

It occurred to me that if Consciousness is externial instead of internal then the honey bee should should have an interface similar to the one that humans have, and all other sentient animals have. Go find it kids!

My grandfather was born in 1875, I was born in 1940 - He ha an apary with a wooden fence around it. I was 3, I went into the apary. Everyone was afraid I would be stung to death. The bees were on me but no stings. After that he would let me go in with him when he was doing maintenance. A bee lit on my face and put a drop on honey on my lip. This also happened to me as an adult with my own bee hives. My question is how did the bee know where to give me a kiss? RobertCMize

My crested gecko does this when I feed him worms lol

@49:56 ...say what? No way, Mixed flocks in neotropical forests are very diverse in colors/patterns. That's what makes it so fun. I witnessed this first hand on a rain forest tram in Costa Rica.

God I love scientists, the commitment and the devotion they show in their work, and the difference it makes in our world, are incredible. The joy and energy this presenter shows in talking about her work is inimitable and wonderful.

What if the Earth is creating the alien, ghost, and fairy phenomenon??? A closed mind will never find any answers.

I have read this amazing book.

I am currently reading through this wonderful book of Costa

Very enjoyable and informative insights into the naming of plants - Thanks. - One thing that does frustrate me sometimes is the renaming of plants for no apparent reason eg Leptospermum scoparium ( manuka) and Leptospermum ericiodes (kanuka) now called Kunzea ericoides - These two plants are very similar so I'm not sure what the need was to change the genus. Eugenia is another one.