Cheats, Liars and Fornicators: The Hidden Face of Mother Nature - Professor Steve Jones

Many creatures manipulate their fellows, their partners, their enemies and even their friends in an attempt to gain advantage for themselves. www.gresham.ac.uk/lectures-an...
Professor Steve Jones (Department of Genetics, Evolution & Environment at University College London) will talk about the crafty ways of living creatures from orchids to ourselves, and about how, beneath every beauty, lies a beast.
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[@impossibleexperiments]

Jones is the kind of lecturer who could just throw away all his notes and slides on a whim and still entertain you with an never-ending train of interesting facts about evolution.

[@ericwilliams2122]

i could listen to this guy all day long.

[@grimawormtongue1949]

I like the way how he moves onto his next thought before finishing his sentence, so at the end of the sentence he repeats the same word quietly until he finds the right word to finish it with.

[@nikkia3d]

Another marvelously informative and witty presentation from Dr. Jones. Many thanks, Gresham College.

[@gazinggoat5869]

I always loved when a professor moonlighted as a stand-up comic.

[@nikkia3d]

Lots of chuckles, and much appreciated during trying times.

[@jamesbailey5008]

Love Steve Jones lectures

[@CareelBay]

He’s brilliant isn’t he

[@nathanroberson]

Fantastic. Please more

[@janewhite2331]

This was such an informative and amusing lecture from Professor Jones

[@moppleinga7025]

Superb lecture, dearest thanks! And you, Sir, are hilarious! xxx Great stuff x

[@Len124]

I'm gonna have to show this to my psychiatrist. I told her something in my head was telling me to crash my car and my sexy-ass cat was somehow in on it. Now who's mentally disturbed?

[@jacpratt8608]

all very provocative and entertaining and everyone concerned should be applauded however they do that there. Dr Steve Jones communicates this stuff better than anyone else I've ever heard since my 6th form biology teacher, but she would never have lasted if she'd gone into these details.

[@karldavis7392]

From the perspective of human men, a beautiful woman is one who is likely fertile. From the perspective of both human genders, a beautiful environment is one in which we can survive and multiply. What parasitism do we have in our own society? Food stamps. Some people work hard and have few children, while other people have more kids they can't support and vote for higher taxes, to get the more productive, less fertile, people to pay for them.

[@Namaerica]

Loved this lecture.

[@squareysquare3150]

That Lewis Carrol quote and accompanying illustration are wrongly attributed to "Alice in Wonderland" by Prof Jones and actually belong to "Alice through the Looking Glass" Sloppy Professor! (Or is it a test to see if anyone is paying attention? Ha!)

[@johnthekeane]

Prof. Jones actually mentioned both donald Trump and Boris Johnson...in the same breath. A bit "trigger happy" there, my U.S. freinds :)

[@jacpratt8608]

its endearing how he can go blank over a word like potato that he's supposed to be talking about then stream out a Latin name. A national TV audience would go crazy over him. He could set the college up for a century.

[@stoyanfurdzhev]

The hidden face announced in the title, is not much hidden after all. The hidden components of mother Nature are not generated quantities, for what concern both the physical und the metaphysical unities.

[@EyeLean5280]

FULL DISCLOSURE: I have wicked insomnia and can't watch stuff right now even if the title interests me... does he say that the impulse to rein in human cheating, lying, and promiscuity is also an effect of evolution? Because I'm wondering what species could survive very long if, instead of engaging in mutual aid, all its individuals were constantly fighting a war of all against all?

[@JCResDoc94]

54:00 Y mapping

[@markrowland1366]

For ten's of thousands of years, potatoes have sustained polonesians.

[@krzysztofkolodziejczyk4335]

woodest audience ever

[@leftyshawenuph4026]

I find it refreshing and relieving that real, intelligent, educated people are all realistic, and agree on how loathsome D. Trump is. It really is just the most ignorant and uneducated that are hypnotized.

[@JimmyKumbaya]

I enjoy many of the Gresham College lectures. That said, I live in the States, and it's surprising and disappointing that several of the lecturers feel obliged to share their opinions regarding the recent U.S. presidential election, specifically by directing derogatory comments toward its winner (and the States' duly elected head). I watch G.C. lectures because I want to learn about your experts' fields of expertise. You're not expert on U.S. politics, and without intentionally being rude, I'd enjoy it the more if you'd keep your opinions on U.S. politics to yourselves and instead focus on the lecture topics. Or do you invite comments regarding your government from U.S. citizens, however uninformed (and off-topic)? Said a bit differently: why would you want to start a lecture by immediately alienating half of your (potential) audience?

[@PifflePrattle]

In addition your country has the power to annihilate a significant portion of the human race. So having a potentially fascist government (you're not there yet, but the danger is real, is everybody's interest. Finally, it may not be very pc to say so but the bloody president is clearly unfit for the job. The fact that millions of Americans can't see that says something about the state of the country. I worry that the insanity present in the US is not confined to it. Being British, I worry that this nation will sleep walk its way into your madness. The last time the we had a head of state anywhere close as nutty as Donnie boy was King George 3rd. His insanity was intermittent, and without it the US may have QE2 as it's head of state. Ha!

[@RonJohn63]

_In addition your country has the power to annihilate a significant portion of the human race._ It's 2017, not 1985. _the bloody president is clearly unfit for the job._ This is a lecture on evolution, not political science.

[@RonJohn63]

Mark Martin Do you *really* think that the US is more likely to launch nukes in 2017 than it was in 1985?

[@RonJohn63]

***** _an inadequate ignoramus_ Whatever his temperament and whether or not it's suited to the Presidency of the US (I do *not* think that it is), *there are very few* -- if any -- ignoramus billionaires. Thus, for you to call him such manifests *your* gross stupidity.

[@RonJohn63]

Mark Martin “You Keep Using That Word, I Do Not Think It Means What You Think It Means”

[@williambabe3032]

This woke professors remarks ridiculing Trump haven’t worn well. He resembles King James I, “ the wisest fool in Christendom”’ , he must be one of the wisest fools in acadaemia.

[@whtalt92]

Are you sure it's not worn well? He's spent time in court losing exactly a case that is pertinent to this lecture.

[@louisxvii2137]

This video is HATE speech. I am so witnessing the preliminary formation of an emotional episode before I fully descend down into my PTSD black(lives matters) hole of worry and despair.

[@muffinspuffinsEE]

нαρργ моνие what you mean?

[@franciscussteiner5661]

Either the last appointment with your shrink went poorly, you didn't take the drugs he gave you, or you are too poor and can't afford medical care, not uncommon for a US-American.

[@nikkia3d]

It isn't necessary to be unkind is it?