Lecture 3 Our Ancestry with Sea Squirts

[@marcel70425]

fantastic lecture series, thank you so much

[@alanpereira2524]

I'm a biology student of the South Brasil, i am try to learn english, and your videos are very interesting and your explanation is not hard to understant, thanks!

[@mikesnyder1788]

Wow! All the way back to the Ediacaran period! That is some family lineage!

[@alejandrolopezvaca3156]

What is the ideal chordate ancestor?

[@IbanezV70CE]

I thought the retention of juvenile traits into adulthood was called neoteny.

[@sidarthur8706]

it's called being bone idle, grow up like everyone before you managed to do fine

[@aeropostale101nw]

It's the same thing if I'm not mistaken.

[@obenrob]

2:04 is this true? i have seen conflicting evidence about this

[@baconboi4482]

Are there jobs in paleontology? I was talking to a paleontologist who owns a store and he told there are no jobs in paleontology, since he couldn't get a job and only owned a store as a job. So I was thinking of going to do something else in my life instead of vertebrate paleontology.

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

Check out my blog post on this topic: www.benjamin-burger.org/are-there-any-jobs-in-paleontology/

[@alejandrolopezvaca3156]

what is molecular phylogeny ?

[@vinny184]

In simple terms it’s looking at DNA to reconstruct more accurate relationships between organisms than when you just look at morphological differences.

[@tobyaj2002]

I thought the title said sea squirrel. LOL

[@BenjaminBurgerScience]

That is funny!

[@lethargogpeterson4083]

So if humans spend enough time sitting in cubicles that we evolve to be sessile, we'll just be returning to our sea squirt roots? If so, honestly, half a billion years later, I'm still not ready to grow up.

[@jase123111]

Mr Burger... I can say that some people in my family sure look like these snot bags.

[@shelledreptile5626]

Jason Kinnear Haha 😂