Simulating Natural Selection

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[@PrimerBlobs]

If you're about to leave a comment saying that faster creatures aren't actually less efficient, read this first. I presented that part a bit strangely. At 2:14, I say moving quickly is less efficient, giving the example of a creature moving a unit distance in half the time, using twice the energy. Then, at 4:53, I show a formula for the energy cost per unit time, which depends on the square of the creature's speed. I gave distance per time, energy per time, and distance per energy at separate parts of the video, and that was confusing. So here's a more explicit summary. If we double a creature's speed... - its distance per time is doubled (the definition of speed) - its energy per time is quadrupled (because it depends on the square of speed) - its distance per energy is halved: (2x distance per time) / (4x energy per unit time) That last bullet is the "efficiency" from the video. With its starting energy for a day, a 2x-speed creature can only travel half the distance.

[@minebloxgx1780]

Hoho that s what I understood ! Great video and impressive simulation !

[@kanal2123a]

Isn't it obvious, great video!

[@griffinwirth2628]

I love how you got to change the amount of food DURING the simulation. Most other channels would have to reset the whole simulation. 10/10 will come back again 👍

[@dannygjk]

Hmmm I doubt that the energy/time should be the square of speed. That seems to me to be too high. I bet irl it's closer to being some function which uses the natural logarithmic function.

[@dannygjk]

@@AmmoGus1 Some function involving ln I didn't mean simply taking the ln of the size. We could probably find that info online rather than speculate about it. I bet scientists have done studies on the energy costs of various sizes etc. of animals.

[@noctobyte7447]

Man cut the food to a tenth, started a mass famine and said ‘Hm’ when they all died lmao

[@inakimendiberri2226]

Reminds me of the glorious motherland

[@ahuman9519]

*Hm*

[@machineman8920]

@@inakimendiberri2226 💀💀💀

[@xdiamond66programmer14]

3:48 - 4:17 is proof he is a comrade

[@mutedunknown2734]

*Stalin intensifies*

[@TH3mrBROWN]

I'd like to thank my larger human friends for not eating me.

[@jovycalawod2968]

O.O

[@dsheshin]

20% larger? This means my older brother had a chance... And tried sometimes

[@littlekittymyew1079]

XD

[@goldenguy3913]

run

[@mycajahrevels9516]

But are they 20% bigger?

[@tomk4t]

"We're living in a simulation!" - The Blobs probably

[@dantron2000]

Tru

[@PedroHenrique-cg4tu]

@@dantron2000 e

[@chipyopthemf9937]

Probably not considering that all the blobs know is survive

[@CaptainWise2016]

Oh no it’s west world

[@Ur-HarkonThePainSeeker]

"just like the simulations" -some clone in the clone wars-

[@alexpartain325]

In all seriousness, this should be shown in classrooms. It really does explain topics very very well providing a visual and being able to see it really helps rather than just reading it.

[@marksukhovsky7917]

Lmao my class is literally watching this video right now

[@ghosted_anarchist]

my professor linked us to this vid in his presentation lol

[@Blue_angel200]

Just finished watching this in class 😅

[@deliciousserotonin5205]

we now know the secret to immortality: just eat food every day

[@stells8518]

Move, I'm doge! .o. Guess I’m immortal

[@yumeyumedi]

i know this is a joke but i think you get the video wrong man i just say this because i thought they got it wrong, if you cant take it then leave lol, i didn’t even offense the original comment, you guys are so sensitive

[@TheAcid928]

@@yumeyumedi stfu

[@iamwill1088]

@@yumeyumedi no

[@BOT-ww3vb]

Doctors: Yes

[@KarakovAnuar]

I bet those blobs are like -dude, what's the meaning of life -I think we live in a simulation -what a stupid theory

[@ATERAH]

I edited my comment XD

[@BinguDingus]

bruh what if that's us

[@viniciuskurek3264]

I think in that all the time

[@ATERAH]

@@BinguDingus that would be scary

[@lennonb6094]

Radioactive Nightmarez exactly

[@loddydobbs3023]

me: hated school, dropped out of college, can’t stand learning also me: math man play god, must pull all nighter

[@ziyeren5509]

People think education Based socio-economical selection = doctrina & sciencia, if people are dumb enough to mix that up then humanity has no hope.

[@t-boi8327]

Humans are naturally curious but school kills that narural curiosity by making learning less fun and more difficult

[@thetoilet9911]

@@t-boi8327 yes

[@Lena-xy8id]

yeah I love researching stuff but hate school now

[@masterblaster2678]

@@t-boi8327 School's goal seems less like teaching valuable knowledge and more like preparing the student for a lifetime of hardships and constant working. Learning is made to be unnecessarily difficult and is limited to a time frame to make you a more "efficient" worker. Those who drop out of school don't drop out because they don't have the intellectual capacity, it's because they don't have the patience to deal with the bullshit schools keep putting them through. In reverse, it also means that those who have managed to graduate aren't smart by default. Some really dumb people graduate because they spend their entire lives studying, staying on top of projects and homeworks. School's just there to make the idea of wasting your entire life away working just to make ends meet seem a normal thing.

[@davidsc4680]

I'm a biologist and researcher in cell biology. I just discovered this channel and I have to say it is possibly the best way out there to quickly learn and understand how evolution works. Amazing modeling. Thanks!

[@greatbriton8425]

Natural selection, while essential for evolution, is not exclusively a part of the theory of evolution. It is the cutting out of members of a population who are less suited to the current ecological conditions. It does not indicate how the better suited members arrived. Take for example the pepper moth. When Britain had a cold climate and there was a lot of snow, the white moths survived better. But when the climate warmed again, the darker moths survived better. Both sets of genes were always present within the pepper month's genome. It was the crossing over of the chromosomes which allowed variant expression of those genes, not mutations adding genes. And the crossing over of chromosomes is an incredibly complicated and sophisticated mechanism, very compatible with creation.

[@davidsc4680]

@@greatbriton8425 Creation? Are you talking about creationism?

[@greatbriton8425]

@@davidsc4680 No, evolutionism

[@davidsc4680]

@@greatbriton8425 oh, ok. Then what you're saying is still natural selection. I don't get your point

[@davidsc4680]

@@dg7183 Not enough

[@Santuaa]

"Let's see what happens when we change the environment more explicitly. Let's go to ten food each day." -J. V. Stalin, 1932

[@allisond.46]

Stalin wasn’t doing computer simulations with blobs.

[@silent-hills]

Allison D. Yes, he wasn’t... the person was making a joke.

[@208jdog]

Wow... i can't believe that Junior Varsity Stalin really said that way back in 1932

[@liorkosoy8012]

Best comment in the history of comments

[@MrRulet550]

ironically, literally all blobs died in 3 days

[@TransitNerd]

Can we have a moment of silence for the blobs that never made it back home?

[@blurbleberrypie1610]

They were very good blobs...

[@uglyfense7754]

BlurbleBerryPie They might have been cannibals.

[@dallasamoa]

Ugly Fense lol

[@obamabinladen2206]

69th like . nice !

[@11x11_]

Unfortunately 70 now

[@jd-hs5lj]

“Which you might notice is similar to the formula for kinetic energy.” Funnily enough that wasn’t my first thought!

[@BurgoYT]

It was mine, seeing the square of the speed

[@monkey3229]

@@BurgoYT nerd

[@BurgoYT]

@@monkey3229 I know maths, it’s not very advanced

[@monkey3229]

@@BurgoYT 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 "I know maths" you get no game my grigger

[@sirstretchy7365]

@@monkey3229 bro you cant be talking with that goofy pfp and user 💀💀

[@clyde15]

This feels like a video God would watch when preparing for his Big Bang final.

[@jonathankennedy1963]

He's testing if his emergent complexity algorithms work before applying them to real creatures.

[@blast507.]

@@jonathankennedy1963 he's testing what-who and applying them to creatures?

[@jonathankennedy1963]

@@blast507. Learned this from a science vid once. Infinite complexity can be made using just simple rules, solving problems from the bottom up.

[@NitinKumar-qg4oz]

this comment will blow

[@jonathankennedy1963]

@@NitinKumar-qg4oz I sure hope so

[@theCodyReeder]

Well I'm just going to click that little red rectangular button and hope it shows me more like this.

[@siddharthnarayanan97]

Looks like me and Cody both got this video in recommend at the same time :p

[@cavemann_]

Same, also didn't expect you here, hi Cody.

[@Arthanax]

Agreed

[@eitanoidos6304]

this video is great, cody is great, everything is great

[@austinrebello]

Oh hi Cody, I didn’t expect you here

[@antoineringuette2923]

"The other day I came across somebody that more than 20% larger than me. It's a good thing I had better sense and better speed. That was scary. I guess I'm truly living on the edge!" - Blob

[@mikabugg]

Antoine Ringuette thank you very much for pretty much suming up the whole video for us 😂

[@cubingx3727]

Common sense! -Grandma

[@Hessonite_Dragon_Helen]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OH MY GOD IM DYING HAHAHAHAHAHA

[@mugge47]

that seems like something a blob would say during their ted talk

[@seedping]

They TRULY are living on the edge

[@Elidhion]

I'm an Evolutionary Biologist and man this is great popularization of science. Keep up the good work

[@warwickwallace2699]

This is an incredible video and a very well presented experiment, thank you for putting the time in to create this!

[@ddpnh8223]

I'm glad the KZbin algorithm is evolving and finally recommended me something good.

[@existenceisrelative]

I mean, maybe the _population_ of algorithms is evolving...

[@clakoclakson]

it is addapting to its enviroment

[@PeterSserwangaShow]

Lol.. Totally. This popped up on my recommends while I was looking for synthwave videos..

[@krishnaj2618]

*I'm glad the KZbin algorithm is -evolving- entering a new developemental stage

[@ckeilah]

Peter Sserwanga dude! I want some good synthwave videos. Please share! Do you know TheSynthFreq? She used to put out fantastic videos, then disappeared nine years ago. I always kind of hoped I’d run into her some day....

[@ironwoodkid9577]

TFW youtube recommends something interesting for a change

[@natherinz3650]

10.00 worth it

[@Sam-dt1kg]

Yo right

[@deltius]

when youtube reccomends you something thats smart other than "why ping pong balls are like my testicles"

[@thhhomas6322]

Iron Woodkid FACTS

[@darthdarthbinkss]

Ikr. It seems a bit better lately. I'm finding some cool ass videos

[@zer0doesstuff]

Your videos are amazing and I watch them in my free time! Your simulations are amazing because you integrate them so well into what you are talking about and I really admire that.

[@gote761]

Primer: Let's make this more realistic though! Also Primer: Each morning food just appears on the plane.

[@jhunnid7016]

“The creatures now compete more fiercely and are less efficient overall” - sounds very familiar...

[@shikuangli9690]

(?)

[@Naijiri.]

*C A P I T A L I S M*

[@dusk_dawn6672]

Yeah i knew these type of comments would appear. History has proven and keeps proving that Communism doesn't work and that when a country implements too much socialist programs the economy falters.

[@CaseyCorbett]

@@dusk_dawn6672 It isn't just Capitalism and Communism. There's a complete gradient scale, and not all capitalistic or communistic societies are created equal. Also I think the capitalism comment was a joke, while the humanity comment was the actual answer. Have you seen humanity? Do you know how much further we'd be if we put our funding and knowledge towards science rather than putting it towards war? We're all the same species, all more or less the same, living on Earth. Yet we've drawn fake lines in the sand and we've decided we want more and more and more, so we kill ourselves to take it from ourselves. While simultaneously destroying the Earth, the very thing which gives us Life. We destroy forests, create cheap yet non biodegradable materials which leach into our water, food, and us. And we hunt other animals into extinction for the thrill or money. We could've been so much more, but our greed and prejudice ruined it. At this point it's hopeless, we've divided ourselves so much that we're not even divided by place of birth anymore, we're divided by literally every possible thing. May it be skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, I could go on for hours. We are the press of a button away from nuclear armageddon, when instead we could've been a multi planetary species with no world hunger, educated populace, and little to no illness. But instead we put our resources into killing eachother, killing ourselves. We could have been so much more.

[@oncehoode3930]

@@CaseyCorbett bro you speak the truth.

[@tamircohen1512]

This video drastically exceeded my expectations. This is one of the highest quality, most informative and engaging videos I've seen in a long while. You have earned my like and subscription! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

[@gramptbeele1966]

If you're interested in this video topic, the channel called carykh has made a really cool series on his own evolution simulator. Very cool

[@tomatopotato4229]

This comment drastically exceeded my expectations. This is one of the highest quality, most informative and engaging comments I've seen in a long while. You have earned my like and this answer! Looking forward to seeing more of your comments.

[@MichaelRainabbaRichardson]

Additionally, great job at explaining the essence of ML and how RNNs relate without appearing to try. Are you using ML to do this, or just looping and animating (Unity/UE)?

[@BruckerHouse]

"earned" lmao

[@asherkandel5367]

Diddo to that, seems like someone who gets science and gets how people think. Good shit Primer guy

[@fortunato1957]

Extremely well done! The implementation with Blender is very impressive! Such high-quality content! These ten minutes of effort should be worthwhile in any classroom!

[@UnSimpleMortal]

This is easily my favorite Primer video, I came back often to see it again haha I love this experimentation, I would love to do some runs by myself on different environments, it looks so much fun!

[@EverSnaxolotl]

Holy shit please make this a downloadable "game"

[@katto1937]

It is in a way, you just need to install the files in the description and get blender - then you can add your own parameters, but that would be quite complicated for someone who hasn't programmed before.

[@debajyotimajumder472]

@@katto1937 can you show how to do it ?

[@eyeofthepyramid2596]

@@katto1937 you forgot about GPU

[@brandoniv5295]

@Red Dunkey shit make the game then bruh

[@neoflash8107]

BrandonIV lol pay me and I’ll make the game. Development isn’t free son

[@t.d.writer1589]

the blobs at the end of the second test: *_i am speed_*

[@lilaniloxi]

Oh look more sonics And more sonics And more sonics *AND KNUKLES*

[@woodyhulst]

Something something speedforce

[@agatkagrzyb653]

*_i have become f a s t_*

[@ITSMANATIME]

"The problem of being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness". "No matter how fast I run... I cannot run away from the pain..."

[@darrenanimatic9675]

*no, I AM SPEED* *And WEED*

[@yoshikagekira1436]

Why can’t my science teachers play things like this, this was incredibly interesting and had my attention entirely!

[@PAWsomeCATastrophe]

I'm not fully sure what i started to watch but it look beautiful :D I love how the colors change with the generations and the time laps just look so beautiful that way! You for sure explain all this very well and it seems as interesting type of simulator. And also the way its visualized look really good. Just looks so good.

[@lcdream4213]

what an interesting way to teach biology *gives death stares to education system*

[@thanhvinhnguyento7069]

"Yes, you. I'm looking at you "

[@gramptbeele1966]

But how else will we learn that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

[@SteelyEyedMissileDan]

I went to school in East Idaho, which falls right in the Mormon Corridor, or “Morridor.” I legitimately had multiple bio teachers present natural selection and creationism as equally likely and equally scientific theories.

[@mollyo2407]

Tim The Enchanter lol yikes i feel like that’s not legal but I live in nyc so that’s not a problem here thank god

[@SpencerBrewerOG]

@@gramptbeele1966 When my teacher said that I made sure to remember that moment forever, after all i wouldnt want to forgot the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

[@drycleanonly]

I just watched a video about little avocado people and natural selection. No regrets. Edit: Thanks for the likes boys

[@Diabhork]

I took 10 minutes

[@G-B-F123]

*Little Pears

[@emptycrate3050]

It’s no Regerts

[@kittyfoxcat7802]

And you all learned something

[@hata6290]

sean is that you?

[@shammirahman2999]

3:00 Autumn vibes 😌

[@katsukistarkugo8176]

Thanks for making this video. I'm currently using this for a science fair project,and it is turning out great so far.

[@kucinglaper5330]

No blob were harmed during the making of this video.

[@Gamespud94]

some blobs were driven to extinction however.

[@HudsonRebel]

Thousands have died actually

[@otallono]

@@HudsonRebel died = harmed?

[@milkpastasoup8960]

No video were harmed during the making of this blob

[@backstabboi4559]

thats if they arent sentient like humans cause that adds a lot of factors to it imagine giving each blob an advanced a.i damn and literally play god

[@thejesuschrist]

awesome!

[@jtktomb8598]

Thank you jesus

[@timchapel77]

You like: Awesome, i simulated something similar about 14 Billion years ago!

[@lladerat]

@@timchapel77 why do we think that in first years after big bang time has flown at the same rate as now? maybe time went so fast or so slow in first thousands or even millions of years that universe could be 1 billion or 1 trillion years old by our understanding of time.... meh... its all just meaningless really.

[@JorgetePanete]

@@timchapel77 jesuchristism says world is 6k years old

[@timangar9771]

@The main cause of warps in all of reality no really, I think the jews placed the beginning of time at around 3 thousand years BC. Which is... wrong, I guess.

[@tellmeaboutyourgame314]

Despite not being about real world biology this video so succinctly touches on so many evolutionary principles more efficiently than say your average Nat Geo documentary. Speciation, mass extinctions, convergence, even insular dwarfism at the very end there. Top tier learning tool, this video.

[@jessedepenbusch3481]

First video of yours I’ve ever watched, and as soon as it ended you got my subscribe bro, great content love it

[@drekaflugan]

Just remember kids, simulations are just a fragment of the complexity of reality, there are so many other variables to take into consideration, that it's hard to simulate them all. For example, I am small but I have an easy time eating larger people :)

[@nos2799]

I feel you! I am slow but I can outrun faster people...

[@ctoooc]

Wdym eat 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

[@YituTG]

r/cursedcomments

[@Danilego]

@@YituTG wow, posted 25 seconds ago! Also very true

[@airbendermac]

hot

[@spoookley]

Those blobs are heckin’ cute. 10/10

[@gladiatormarcellus2078]

I like the colors

[@simulacra7885]

you are biased you blob

[@Patrick3183]

No they’re not

[@gladiatormarcellus2078]

@@simulacra7885 I just realized that wtf

[@cameronc7403]

would recommend to a friend

[@shannonfick7170]

This video is beyond amazing! Like the amount of work that would have had to go into this simulation is astounding and you explain things so well! You have a new “blob”scriber here 😊

[@LLTheRuckus]

This is one of coolest things I have ever seen and I want to know how to use this. Please keep making videos on this simulator. Keep making them more and more in-depth. Longer videos. Maybe get a scientist guest speaker, behavioralists, genetics, psychology... etc. It's endless what you could do. You could basically create your own ecosystem. How big can the world get? This is so cool.

[@54m0h7]

Very nice simulation. A fine example of "Survival of the Fittest". People always get that wrong. "Fittest" is not strongest or fastest, it's 'that which fits best' in its environment.

[@xoxo5537]

Well technically some environments require the strongest and/or the fastest, although you're right, that's not always the case

[@milithdheerasekara6957]

@@xoxo5537 he never said that fittest is never strongest or fastest, he said that fittest is that which fits best. this includes strongest and/or fastest in some environments, his point is that its not always the strongest or fastest, although it may be in some situations.

[@xoxo5537]

@@milithdheerasekara6957 That's what I said

[@MalekitGJ]

@@milithdheerasekara6957 and in our case, was intellect Tools & tactics proved, by our own luck, to be more effective to hunt prey While agriculture & patrols, again by our own luck, to more safe to care for our younglings to grow

[@ZechsMerquise73]

Ones which are more responsive to change are just more likely to survive. Inefficient species can still survive in their environment. It depends on the availability of resources, and these kinds of games/simulations can cause by design very specific situations which aren't as dynamic as a real environment. It's more like "over a given period of time, a population which 'fits best' is more likely to reproduce". Likely. Not "does"... The ideas of strong, fast, and fit (especially fitness as one-directional) play into the sort of Creationist dialogue that what we see is "perfect". No, what we see works. What often changes the game, on the other hand, is when species become proficient at thriving and over-consumption without significantly depleting their available resources.

[@damaan1243]

Wow cute little blob bois Primer: Torture time

[@backstabboi4559]

thats if they arent sentient like humans cause that adds a lot of factors to it imagine giving each blob an advanced a.i damn and literally play god

[@deaugh985]

retard for life Imagine adding like character traits and structure building, battles, sentience, ect. Lets repeat world history

[@TRAVISTY2000]

@@deaugh985 that would be siick

[@Yakko-]

pickles

[@joolyyt376]

The best example of natural selection are Giraffes, over the years Giraffe’s necks have increased in length as the higher the Giraffes can reach the more food they can get. Meaning the shorter necked Giraffes had a lower survival rate. 🦒

[@fredneecher1746]

Neat hypothesis. Where's the evidence?

[@jordanjohansenmusic]

Incredible scientific work! Especially all the evidence

[@coryv6947]

Nah it’s to fight and get Giraffussy

[@salem-01]

This was a really interesting video! I usually have a bit of a hard time understanding the variables you use and stuff, but this one was quite simple!

[@WinterNox]

I, am happy for you

[@THExRISER]

This would make an excellent sandbox.

[@thebadmedic89]

THE RISER true

[@rilloff9710]

actually there is sandbox like that already, Species: Artifical Life, Real Evolution (its full name of this sandbox game)

[@tionebsrevne9374]

Maybe Cell lab on Android ?

[@TheRainHarvester]

Here's my version.

[@TheRainHarvester]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/nZKpfKSFd7mdb9k Here.

[@KSR3]

god thank my ancestors who gave up their lives for mine to waste it on the internet

[@Gaburierairuze]

God bless

[@tonitskikun9059]

they didn't really cared,they just did their thing

[@dope9555]

Keoh 8 where did you get that idea?

[@atyabtosif584]

and to think we are the pinnacle of evolution😂😂

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

Atyab Siddiqui most likely your not. The few STEM workers, researchers, and innovators of the world are.

[@560vasco]

This is my favourite video of yours, a 2nd episode of this would be great :)

[@Lerenthial]

Fantastic idea mate! Looking forward to seeing more content in this manner!!! ❤

[@eggsinabasket]

They should show this video in school. It's actually extremely well made and also very educational

[@silverlightsinaugust2756]

Iconicah oh I love this video so much! This video alone is getting these guys a subscription from me. I can’t believe how helpful of a visual aid this was. Evolution is a big deal for me, so communicating effectively is like an intellectual turn-on in a sense. If my son is a flat earther I won’t mind that much, but if he’s a creationist I’ll probably cry alone somewhere. So I agree 100%. This video, and possibly others of theirs, is not just educational, it’s fucking masterfully constructed.

[@WillayG]

I'm a teacher, not a science teacher but I'm going to show it to some of my students.

[@blendernoob8993]

@@WillayG Nice I wish my teacher would do that

[@WillayG]

@@blendernoob8993 Thanks. Maybe you could suggest it to your teacher. I love when my students suggest class material to me. It helps everyone be more interested and helps students have some control or say in what they're learning. Maybe he or she'd appreciate your input.

[@miniaturejayhawk8702]

@@silverlightsinaugust2756 HAH, my motger is a creationist, so i can't really take anything serious that she says! 😂😂😂

[@MrKalerender]

I'm so glad I rewatched this and discovered there's a simulation for students to involve themselves with now. I plan on having my class use this to more thoroughly explore natural selection next year!

[@SpeedKing..]

Yay

[@LeafeonTheCat]

I wish I was in your class

[@thalmoragent9344]

@@LeafeonTheCat Same 😅 I had good teachers, but this is definitely a cool teacher

[@haybean]

I saved your comment from being 666

[@ahaangupta]

@@LeafeonTheCat agree

[@anicecupofjam574]

Really interesting videos, glad to find this on recommended

[@tannerwalston9366]

This is a well put together video nice work!

[@NBazure]

Okay, i have 2 questions: How is this so entertaining?! Why can't school be like this?? :C

[@video.mp4709]

Just wait for college where you can pursue something you care about

[@that_one_duck9117]

a school where people become speedy blobs and dash around eating everything, and whenever they eat they have sex? seems like an AMAZING learning environment

[@that_one_duck9117]

(just to clarify, i understand that isnt what they meant)

[@thomashaigh6098]

When I taught natural selection to my class, they acted out this activity, only they were squirrels competing for hazelnut cards

[@stells8518]

A 1. Because the blobs are friggen cute A 2. Because schools (a lot of them) are pretty cheap, not all though

[@Tenne1988]

You should make a game out of this. The player could edit the traits en environment and see how different settings play out:O

[@spejic1]

Agent-based model systems have been used for a long time in biology, social sciences, and business. There has been lots of software written to do this kind of thing, but it isn't for fun usually. There have been a few games that use some of these principles, like Spore.

[@timburlingame5893]

I grew up playing "Evolve! Lite", an old dos game.

[@damon9484]

it wont be as fun if you do it on your own.. he knows what hes doing so he can explain what's going on.

[@Abhishek-iq9lo]

yeah ! this is an amazing idea. it'll be kind of a simulation. very nice

[@puyearprod.929]

@@timburlingame5893 Youre a child if you grew up playing anything Lite

[@IDMYM8]

I had put a like on this video. It's so good, all the math and graph looks painting to me.

[@bruhchacho3344]

how am I just now finding this channel? amazing channel, thank you sm for the content

[@makennashuter6606]

The one thing I have learned from these videos is NEVER BE GREEDY and NEVER HAVE BABIES. They are just more competition.

[@whatabouttheearth]

'Mutualism' is one of the primary reasons hyper social societies of animals like dogs, humans, chimps, etc evolve and thrive

[@makennashuter6606]

@@535ejayeshdusseja5 it was obviously a joke...

[@DaSilverBackz]

@@535ejayeshdusseja5 unless your joking can I use that dumbo part on you please?

[@ILiekFishes]

@@535ejayeshdusseja5 bruh

[@SpeedKing..]

@@makennashuter6606 my laugh will arrive in 4 to 6 working days

[@mrtomato8436]

Everything was going right until I saw cannibalism

[@AiswaranDevaraj]

I wouldn't say cannibalism imagine you are rich and your ties are big then it becomes a cannibalism attitude let's put it that way

[@Isachzu]

They do it to survive so in a way, they are their in prey and predator

[@breonawarren1507]

DVNOhelix Humans eating human flesh over a period time can cause neurological problems

[@CaseyCorbett]

Many species engage in cannibalism. These aren't Humans, yet many groups of Humans have also engaged in cannibalism for reasons of starvation, religion, to instill fear in rival groups, etc.

[@reinhartnata47]

Breona Warren barbaric tribes did it but they're fine though

[@lifeunderthestarstv]

Subbed! Brilliant idea for a channel! This shows great experiments

[@KurseSniping]

This was a really interesting and well put together video. Glad I found this even if i’m a couple years late

[@carl8428]

A 10 minute video taught me more than a 1 month biology unit

[@Smenchevieve]

@Issac Cohen Yeah that's what I was thinking.

[@TheSomeonewholoves]

Issac Cohen yup probably. Myself had a bad teacher. For two years class has learned nothing and everyone almost failed biology :)

[@TheScarlettQuill]

True that

[@theweirdsarr3734]

I think you mean my entire academic experience

[@RayceVR]

Peter griffin: HE SAID IT

[@UnPuntoCircular]

GREAT! is it possible to put some sort of web app with these so that people can play around?

[@Michal235]

That's what I wanted to ask for man, I'd love this

[@cortezcrowley4691]

I'd love that, too! But I think, you'd have to come up with some very intelligent design. 😉

[@SanxBile]

Bump

[@basantologist]

Amen

[@MatthewHoHiWorld]

agree

[@zacharynolan9553]

Fantastic evolution explainer with simulated examples. This needs to be in every bio class

[@zath3153]

Well explained and visualized, thank you!

[@that1guyjack269]

It’s kinda amazing how this guys whole career is off of blobs and I love it

[@dabbot1136]

Yup.

[@aleksandarmanojlovic4988]

They are adorable also

[@Kolus.Mapping]

no they are pears

[@cannonfodderangry6517]

Teacher: *talks about evolution* Me: You know I'm something of a scientist myself.

[@arthuradriano1]

now that's a reference!

[@insertname8889]

Pulls out "The expert" t shirt

[@theorasmussenbauer]

Me after that bobbybroccoli episode on the man who faked an element

[@MoonEater]

This is amazing! Well done!

[@Jeropa]

What a nice way to teach statistics! Thanks for this.

[@shoopoop21]

Could you use this to simulate the damage of invasive species? That would be really cool.

[@mikoajjaros3570]

Well, to really show the impact, he should create a multi-species environment first. This channel has a lot of potential and space to grow :)

[@neilcampbell7375]

or after several generations, spawn in 1-5 Max size creatures

[@josec544]

Josh Nonya y’all are packed together pretty good I wonder if inbreeding as occurred.

[@Trickorvr]

@@mikoajjaros3570 "potential " "space to grow" if your choice of words was intentional......Nice!

[@josec544]

Josh Nonya Europeans have inbred people. I mean look at the British teeth!

[@wheatandtares9764]

Everyone: Stay calm, don't panic over coronavirus. KZbin: Here is a video about natural selection! How reassuring!

[@raulphilipgoco403]

Wheat and Tares atleast the blobs are cute

[@foreverkenzie2397]

honestly though lets just try it out and see what happens

[@nutnut9277]

underrated comment hahahaha

[@foreverkenzie2397]

@tre i agree, its sad to think about but humans are no better than any other mammal and we need to be able to weed out weak genes and we have not allowed this.

[@colios137]

The natural selection have started in France with people who continue to go outside for nothing...

[@FoxerZ]

2:36 I love how this guy explained directional selection, stabilizing selection and disruptive selection is easy to understand terms.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

I think this experiment is awesome. I would love to see this experiment conducted with multiple species and a bigger environment that introduces things like disease, famine, and quite possibly new terrain.

[@kannabby]

I feel very educated right now, this was not what I was trying to achieve when going through KZbin but i want more

[@loganmerritt4939]

Don't feel too educated. Natural selection is used to prove evolutionary theory. The interesting thing about this video is that you never see a blob evolve into a cat. Even with 4.2 billion years it would never happen.

[@Mittens_McG]

🙄

[@Warionator]

@@loganmerritt4939 maybe an r/whoosh, but it's because he didn't code anything for that to happen. he only made things for sense, speed, and size. Its never going to do what's not in the code.

[@mayattv4986]

🤭🤣

[@ntactime_w3488]

thats all i use KZbin for

[@gabrielsantana1886]

That's what we are, a simulation inside an alien's computer that makes videos to KZbin.

[@aj7789]

Woah woah woah, Aliens wouldn’t be using this same dumb youtube bullshit. I bet if they could figure out how to simulate us to the degree of substance as our universe possesses, then they’d be able to make a much much better video sharing platform than youtube. I bet Space KZbin would be soooo much better. I wish we could have their Space KZbin.

[@prospero4060]

AJ Amusing. You say you wish we had this “Space KZbin” as if you actually believe that could be a possibility at all.

[@Beatsbasteln]

hope it's a live stream

[@gor5048]

Alien seeing you type this: oh no the specimens have figured it out!

[@echodec]

@@prospero4060 you say that as if you actually believe there could be no possibility at all

[@jacksontheprince1302]

Great Video! Another Idea for an upcoming video would be to add different kinds of food! (Like green food lets it survive, Red food lets it survive 2 days, yellow increases speed and e.c.t)

[@danaondrackova3431]

for some reason youtube gives me ideas as these videos and I really like to learn more about any interesting topic and I really like your explanations and show

[@acontic8203]

What if dead creatures will transform into food?

[@selobee4831]

Time for more experiments! lol

[@enderlegasov]

@@acontic8203 2nd time now.

[@RyanSavage_Banjo]

Michał Puchalski the increase in cannibalism may lead to a large surge in poor mental health or more violent blobs. In either case, eventually most of the population won’t even leave to get food and (obviously) die

[@acontic8203]

@@RyanSavage_Banjo but if there will be more species and every creature will eat only food from other species...

[@acontic8203]

Or divide creatures into herbivores and carnivores...

[@EdgyVidyaGeneral]

I could watch 10 hours of you messing with the values and introducing different traits

[@cakecreep2491]

C H O D E W R A N G L E R same

[@GilDionisio]

same, please.

[@eduardoiiihabon6524]

same

[@sincekabak]

MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

[@kcin1299]

true

[@LeonPessanha]

Dude, this video is amazing! It makes me miss my college time. Great job!

[@SuperSight]

Love this series, and the cool thing is that when you say “In future videos” I can watch them now as they already exists. Watched these a couple of times before. :) 7:18am NZST 7 September 2022

[@emmacox3219]

This man has just solved over population... everyone just needs to get faster

[@usuarionormal6778]

cannibalism solves overpopulation and world hunger

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

usuario normal but the best solution is to voluntarily not reproduce if you dont think your intelligent. Then the only humans left on earth will be intelligent humans that dont have to deal with dumb tribal idiots killing each other and intelligent people instead of helping people and progressing humanity.

[@usuarionormal6778]

@@deadpirateroberts9937 you didnt get the joke?

[@mikozish]

@@deadpirateroberts9937 Great idea! So start from Yourself :D

[@deadpirateroberts9937]

usuario normal Its not about just getting to joke or not im teling you an idea of mine *OUTSIDE* the joke. Im not required to tell you “oh funny i got the joke” im free to talk about how this can be talked about in a different way.

[@mela_pela]

This was an amazing video. Thank you.

[@kindlehaha]

why is this so absolutely amazing

[@Icecolo]

holy crap you need more subs this is really cool

[@nipunasudha]

*Can you simulate how would Thanos's Snap balance an imaginary world?*

[@amazingleomar6885]

I think it wouldn’t change anything. Since you reduce the population but not the resources, you never changed the carrying capacity so the remaining population is free to reproduce rapidly until it returns to the same level

[@awesomenova09]

do it! do it!

[@amazingleomar6885]

@Bug Batts but he didn’t do exactly as he says. In the movie only the heroes species are affected, you never see a plant disappear from Wakanda. Also all the heroes inanimate objects on their person, like their costumes, are destroyed as well. So half of all life might be what Thanos says but it isn’t what he does

[@panchocesar1]

How about that people can only have 2 kids. Make huge farms so food don't ran off People who kill for no reason gets kill and their body sell as meat so we can have that type of cannibalism ( That is what I get from what I been reading that others say ) How about that the earth has a law or something that the earth has to have no less than 1 three per every 4 human beings What do you people on the internet think about it?.

[@JD-wv1yi]

If anything this proves that thanos was wrong, if population couldn't sustain itself, say they had half the food, then the population would just reduce to a sustainable point again, killing off 50% of everyone when they had to be at a sustainable point to even get there makes no sense.

[@robllarim6403]

This experiment is so cool! Thanks for the video

[@elleofthewilds]

ngl i almost always watch these videos when im about to sleep. helps me wind down and you retain information better if you consume it soon before sleeping.

[@daniellandoe8069]

Being born into a rich family is the real life equivalent to spawning next to a minecraft village

[@edgepixel8467]

Daniel Landoe Being born into a rich family is equivalent to being born into a rich family

[@99batran]

Minecraft village on top of a underwater ruin on top of shipwrecks

[@edgepixel8467]

Abacus Noob? Sorry for not being impressed with deep insights about life using Minecraft comparisons. How old are you, triggeredboy?

[@moussesucree]

Dude I want a game like this with tons of parameters. Like a puzzle game: I have an environment, and i need to create the best creature.

[@thedudewiththeMG40]

Like Spore?

[@jamillimeter]

Like a God?

[@moussesucree]

@@thedudewiththeMG40 kind of, I don't like spore visuals so I never really tried it.

[@serajalhorani838]

Like Aires?

[@paulofernando7858]

Like Universe Sandbox, but with creatures

[@dosenbiiir]

Such an interesting experiment! Thank you for this Video

[@iamidiotsandwich3397]

Your vids are fascinating

[@handsomehobo1270]

Is because "survival of the fittest" isn't about the most physical fit creature surviving... It's about the best fitting creature to it's environment.

[@prodruc]

Handsome Hobo That ain’t it chief. Survival of the fittest is about whoever can pass on their genes. For example, Scrappy the Cat has many different diseases and is starving. He had 7 kids with an old hooker on the streets. All of the kids live. Kenny the Tiger is 7 foot, built like Hulk Hogan, and gets with all the mo fukin ladies bruh. He had 3 kids with his model wife and they all lived. Scrappy the Cat is technically more fit because he has more of his genes and traits existing than Kenny the Tiger does. So keep fukin bitches 👻

[@ingwiafraujaz3126]

That's what "fittest" means, ya dork.

[@handsomehobo1270]

Dude, it's like nobody even listens.

[@goldenageofdinosaurs7192]

Handsome Hobo You can have a mudskipper. It’s not as highly evolved as a rainbow trout in a river environment. But, if the river dries up, the trout is ducked. The mudskipper can breath air & will make it until it finds another stream, or the river runs again.

[@MidianVGC]

Actually it’s not survival of the fittest it’s survival of the okayest.

[@CommieG]

Damn, these are some high quality videos boi

[@phills6732]

Got me going crosseyed in a good way. I can't pretend to understand it all, but you do a great job!

[@mennymoto]

Oh, I love these simulations! I remember one where creatures with good metabolism but poor perception learned to hibernate, waiting for food to spawn close to the them.

[@doggoss3996]

Mom: What are you watching? Me: Blobs eating green balls

[@hypertion]

I would love to see these tests taken to extremes Long enough and big enough to see if ecological niches appear.

[@danielstarr8957]

He should add geological differences on the map and watch as different micro populations evolve into completely different species over time.

[@flamebird414]

@@danielstarr8957 i would also love to see the addition of another species or two that hunts the blobs. See how they adapt to that. Would they get faster? Would sense increase? Would they shrink? Etc.

[@charliedeegan1598]

Grey still plays makes Sims battle it out in absolutely ridiculous fights for their lives. (It's not at all scientific or factual but it's hilarious and very entertaining)

[@Coolkid99880]

It would be cool if everything evolved like the plants and blobs, soon there would be a entire ecosystem

[@someguynamedsteve203]

@@danielstarr8957 then all of it breaks down and watches them fight to the death for global dominance.

[@pianolover3711]

I LOVE THIS CHANNEL SM ITS SO MEE

[@Mura-yk8qp]

Amazing content🔥