What is Natural Selection?

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Natural Selection is one of the main concepts found within the theory of evolution. It was discovered by Charles Darwin and Alfred Russel Wallace though Darwin championed the idea in his book "On the Origin of Species".
Natural selection can be defined as the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature in a consistent, orderly, non-random way.
When coupled with descent with modification, Natural Selection can cause a population to evolve for fitness within a given environment over multiple generations.
Natural Selection is an observable fact. By carefully observing populations of living things with short life cycles you can actually watch it happen.
Want to learn more? Check out our notes for this video. Included are links to three examples of natural selection witnessed by researchers. There are many more as well.
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can we just take a minute to appreciate the clean and entertaining illustrations and animation in this video? i just watched this for my class and I surprisingly didn't get bored

[@alitechy94]

just wanted to mention it! it literally stated clearly.

[@Treek6366]

Same

[@danielperitore3957]

yeah, this was a great video. Better than my teacher. lmao

[@allthingsyt1509]

If you can find any *dab*😂

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Big shouts to my science teacher for just giving us this vid

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@@ansnfbsknanssshshbsnsndnd5438 I’m actually here because of my science teacher and I go to a catholic school.

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[@RealSamuelGibson]

Who else had their teacher send them here for homework?

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Me

[@Harry-fq7dk]

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[@danielperitore3957]

me lol

[@strawberryduchess656]

Me. at least this one has pictures and a bit of animation, unlike the last one I just came from which was a dude basically just pointing at a really boring slideshow and talking about something.

[@mikeymousepgfamilymoney4146]

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[@1490063]

been always confused about the term "natural selection". finally I got it. nature selects who gets to survive and reproduce. Thank you so much.

[@blackwinter8903]

Not exactly.

[@blackwinter8903]

Nature is only adjusting the abilities of the organism that enters the world. If the new ability does not work in its current living enviornment, and gets killed. Then that gene/ability won't get passed down. However if it's survive and get's reproduced, the gene get's passed down. So if you survive and pass on your genes that made you survive until you grew old and died, good job I guess.

[@1490063]

hmm So nature selects which genes will be passed down. Isn't that the same as what I said?

[@blackwinter8903]

No, nature is only "giving" or "adjust" the living beings in nature. If a disease is caused by a specific gene, but that living being who has it were succesfully give an offspring, that gene will be carried by the offspring. Which means, the disease is still "alive". Natural selection should be seen as sort of as a referee. It evens where things are unbalanced. For example; if "Alpha Animal" has total control over resources that are needed to survive, "Animal Bravo" will mutate for the lack of "strength" it needs to stay alive. It either adapts by adopting a new habit or a mutation will happen in its DNA. Somewhere around, a change will be happen to make sure everything is in balance. That is what natural selections job, as far as I know.

[@1490063]

Oh I see! thank you so much for the detailed explanation.

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I think you need English language education.

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who else is watching this bc its an assignment in quarantine.....

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[@syd6073]

i have to do so many questions with it :(

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no

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[@toomanyfandoms117]

howdy fellow quarantine schoolchildren shoutout to mrs smith for assigning this, if you're reading this I watched it and all your loom videos on 1.5x speed while listening to foreigner and scrolling through tumblr on my phone. tbh i'm surprised i'm not failing your class. although we have one more assignment so that could still happen.

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my bio teacher really should use these videos. i actually understand this.

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I don't understand these because the manly and masculine voices turn me off

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[@pvbgoodman]

As a high school science teacher, I thought this was very well done--clear, concise, good use of graphics, and an authoritative, yet not condescending, tone. Great job!

[@mauricemenard2243]

Life adapts by keeping the useful gene while losing the useless genes but it never created a new one, this is not the reality in which we live. It is a fairy tale, contrary to observation and facts.

[@motherlandmars5999]

The theory of evolution is a dogma without any scientific evidence. It was introduced not for scientific reasons but for ideological reasons. There are no fossils that prove evolution. Millions of fossils prove no evolution. Living things did not appear by evolution but by the Cambrian explosion. And traces have been found that prove that people from the times when Darwinists claimed that people were half animals were fully human. There was no such thing as evolution. And countless studies in laboratories have failed to turn up any examples of beneficial mutations. Almighty Allah created living things not by evolution but by the Cambrian explosion. The functions of all organs, which Darwinists call obsolete organs in living things, have been revealed. In other words, there is no such thing as an expired organ in humans or other living things.

[@oscarbeck9161]

@@mauricemenard2243 That sounds like a creationist talkingpoint. How many different types of mutations do you know of?

[@matthewtheobald1231]

dude those poor green bugs just watched their two siblings and mother die right in front of them

[@brianalvarez6379]

Lmfao 😂 😂

[@eredior8674]

Nature is that wild!

[@canadian97]

Wait, how do you know it was their mother and not their father who got eaten ?

[@matthewtheobald1231]

I guess I don't XD

[@hindsight8522]

I thought it was the father and not the mother which got eaten. I would have the father was to heavy for chameleon to lift it like that but whooops

[@clandestineman6655]

I see 6 types of provoking comments here: -Funnies -Genuine questions -God did it! -How man come from rock??? -You stupid, Nature smart! -Why dog stay dog? WHY DOG STAY DOG???

[@wendigo017]

As somebody who believes in God I can only laugh at those retards saying he personally designed all of our species from the beginning. Religion is truly a poison of humanity due it's assertion of revelation as a form of knowledge of God.

[@aeebeecee3737]

God is exist that exist in natural selected human’s imagination and human behavior.

[@aeebeecee3737]

Human in the future find god: god, oh god! Is god. God: yeah my product, what’s up? Human: I’m wondering where did you come from? God answer: natural selection.

[@aeebeecee3737]

Q: How human comes from a rock? A: I never see a human comes from rock, so I don’t know... maybe it’s impossible.

[@aeebeecee3737]

Q: Why dog still dog? A: because human not continues cross-sex the wolf And no condition force dog to change itself in natural selection.

[@mmstrong13]

I am teaching high school Biology in Thailand (I am a native English speaker from the US) and these videos have GREATLY helped me. Thank you SO SO much for posting! :)

[@mr.potato5064]

I must know: Is suicide considered natural selection?

[@lucianmacandrew1001]

+Mr. Potato It could be, if the suicide is caused by something hereditable.

[@dianaguerra2797]

2 words...

[@dianaguerra2797]

I agree

[@HermanWillems]

Yes, because if suicide was dominant. Nobody would live. ;)

[@ChalkLitIScream]

Herman Willems me being a total nerd but, suicidal behaviour would be a whole bunch of genes as well as a shitty environment to live in.

[@anneldest]

I must be honest. This was assigned to me to watch and I didn't get bored. Very rare for a teacher to make us watch a video that doesn't make me fall asleep. Nice job. I hope my teacher uses more of your videos. New subscriber.

[@mauricemenard2243]

Life adapts by keeping the useful gene while losing the useless genes but it never created a new one, this is not the reality in which we live. It is a fairy tale, contrary to observation and facts.

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were all doing homework that their biology teacher gave them right now

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Yh I am😑

[@ConfidentlyGrim]

This explains natural selection extremely well.

[@JorgeGaro04]

good video all animals have alola form

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Why did i laugh at this

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Tortoise lays eggs and creates a whole new species. Me: sweet home Alabama

[@danielperitore3957]

lmao i didnt even realize that until you said it

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LMAO

[@肩幅プリンセス]

Thank you for this awesome video!! I’m a Japanese high school student. We watched this in our English class together!! It’s stated clearly so we could understand well :)

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ohayo

[@dotun7003]

They teach in English in Japan?

[@Drforeverok]

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[@Pokquib]

I am a biology teacher and I love your videos for my kids they are very simple and accurate and the kids enjoy the laughs! Please continue to make them so I can match them up with future units! Let me know how we can help!

[@MrChainsawAardvark]

Flip a coin, and your chance of getting heads or tails is basically 50-50. Flip 100 coins and chance of all of them landing heads up is 1/2 to the 100th power - you could be flipping for eons without getting an all heads result. But instead of restarting every time. reserve the ones that show the right result, and only re-flip the tails. 100 flip, 50 heads. 50 flip, 25 up, 25 flip 13 up, 12 flip, six up... In only 5 iterations, you're 97% of the way to the result. Genes and alleles are a lot more complicated than coins, but the experiment is being run billions of times over in parallel - each creature a new experiment, each generation a new flip, and the environment of predators and hazards the selection for the desirable trait.

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[@jopmakkar142]

Tldr I still don’t know

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Nah it's not 50/50 there's a chance of flipping it at the side

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who is here because of COVID-19?!

[@halfmoon1389]

Sadly

[@Fengmei0808]

@Autumn Everson LOL sameeee!!!

[@ruqeas3497]

THIS IS AMAZING! I have been confused about this whole concept of natural selection and Darwin for the past 4 week! THIS VIDEO SAVED MY LIFE. I UNDERSTAND IT WITH NO CONFUSIONS! THANK YOU SO MUCH AND MAY GOD BLESS YOU!! Please continue making these videos! Thank you!

[@tealafoster2334]

Not for homework I'm just a nerd who likes to know stuff

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Teala Foster im just an idiot who wants to know stuff

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Im here cause i didnt understand anything what my teacher teach us

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Same, ADHD sux:(

[@taiekvana]

was sent for homework, but i actually want to learn

[@tahahormozan]

That was fucking awsome brilliant explain specially when animal camoflage illustrated I felt some endorphin in my brain when you explained that so simple well done👍👌💎

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+taha hormozan calm down

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+taha hormozan You're not the only one, sir ! :)I just understood it thanks to their crew for this brilliant work ! :D

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i feel that too...

[@MartinFireExotics]

Am I the only one here just cuz I'm interested and love everything about nature? School didn't teach me crap. Iv learned more off youtube over the past 2 years then I ever learned all through preschool to 12 grade

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Not just you. I've learnt a lot off KZbin too. At a school parents evening my Dad pointed out to one of my teachers that if she could captivate me like Sir David Attenborough could I'd be a genius lol

[@HunHare]

Evolution is not a theory. It is a *process*. The only thing theoretical about evolution is how it occurs, and natural selection is one theory that explains evolution to a great degree. Please don't say that "natural selection is a part of the theory of evolution" because that's just not correct. Otherwise...nice video!

[@AshrafAnam]

Rod What is meant is something called *intelligent design* ..."You cannot get order and complexity from random chaos alone." The bodies and behaviors in nature is very complex and orderly. Just as the farmers selectively bred the best one, God selectively breeds the best in nature. They couldn't have originated from just probability (the randomness of decent).

[@zm_azathoth8797]

@@anarchoniaism so Christianity is not theory cause it not have scientific evidence that can be directly observe?

[@drg8687]

Dana Krempels evolution is a scientific theory that explains an observable fact about reality. There is no competing theory to evolution. A scientific theory is the pinnacle of science.

[@drg8687]

Rod the lizard didn’t eat random bugs, it ate the ones that did not have the correct colouring for the environment. There’s nothing random about that.

[@DrReginaldFinleySr]

The process is evolution is the theory (how it works). It is also a fact, however. Like gravity is a fact, how it works in gravitational theory.

[@nataliejohansen5332]

A big thanks to everyone who worked on this! Really amazing and usable, and important! You guys make such a good job!

[@mauricemenard2243]

Life adapts by keeping the useful gene while losing the useless genes but it never created a new one, this is not the reality in which we live. It is a fairy tale, contrary to observation and facts.

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Who is here because of quarantine and decided to scroll down to the comment section but forgot it was moved so you scroll back up and see the comments and click it and it ends up with just a bunch of people saying who’s here because of quarantine

[@Vijin321]

I like how it's the videos that cover topics that contradict or disprove biblical creation that have all of the dislikes.

[@jeremycapozzoli]

I have a test on this in a few days and this was really helpful. Thank you!

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Nice one. I'm an animator/cartoonist, and I work at a science museum (North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences). I'd be keen to learn more about what you're doing.

[@saviclements4575]

Thank you, this was very helpful. Thanks to this video I aced my science test.

[@aarivmathur4192]

1. They pick the best growing plant to produce more 2.the process by which random evolutionary changes are selected for by nature 3. Depending on their natural selection they can hide and blend in Thank me later :) btw idk if these answers are correct these are mine but if you don't care than here you go

[@joaogabriellucas1865]

In a way we can say that nature has some intelligence hardwired in itself (maybe the laws of physics). Many thanks for this video! I really enjoy the way of your presentations. Keep up the good work!

[@echelon2k8]

You'd be surprised how many creationists get this wrong.

[@con.troller4183]

Getting everything wrong is kind of their thing. I just wish they'd keep it to themselves.

[@mclaytv]

Amazing 2 videos. So much to learn it’s overwhelming. Came out of Christianity and took a liking to the brain and the cosmos, only reason I stayed away from learning more about evolution is never found someone that explained it in detail, simply. Thank you for this

[@butternuttt]

these are awesome educational videos that clearly and simplify complex concepts. thank you guys!

[@mauricemenard2243]

Life adapts by keeping the useful gene while losing the useless genes but it never created a new one, this is not the reality in which we live. It is a fairy tale, contrary to observation and facts.

[@mikibaii]

Honestly sad why I saw this JUST NOW 😔. It's really informative. I am actually aiming for biology. Wish me luck!

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[@RandallWilks]

*HOW EVOLUTION WORKS* It is helpful to understand that evolution is a molecular process. The random mutations that naturally occur during cell division and replication (mitosis and meiosis) are the raw material for the genetic variation we see in every population of organisms. Mutations are ongoing and continuous for every living species. Those mutations are subjected to a selection process that is performed by whatever environment the organisms find themselves. In this respect, evolution is an ongoing, continuous set of experiments. Those that work get perpetuated, those that don't, perish. It is as if the environment acted as an umpire who says "There are good mutations and there are bad mutations and there are neutral mutations, but they ain't nuthin' until I (the environment) calls 'em." That is Natural Selection. Neutral mutations just go along for the ride without producing immediate benefit (Genetic Drift). The result of those selection processes is organisms best suited for their current environment. Should that environment change, it would put the population under stress. If the population gene pool has sufficient genetic variation it increases the likelihood that at least some offspring should be able to survive and perpetuate the species (albeit one of slightly different genetic makeup). What you should understand is that genetic changes do not occur because of some 'need'. The mutations are RANDOM and get selected if they are USEFUL. That is a process and it is anything BUT random. Let's take the example of the Panda. Bears in general are omnivores, eating plant matter, but with a marked preference for meat when available. The preferred food of the Panda however, is bamboo leaves, which have such low nutritional value that they must eat almost continuously. The Panda would certainly be able to extract more nutrition with a four chambered stomach (as in ungulates and whales) or something akin to a cecal valve, but it has neither in its genetic toolbox. In feeding themselves, pandas are continuously stripping bamboo leaves from their stalks, a process that could be facilitated if they had a thumb. Bears however do not have thumbs, nor do they have genes for them in their genetic toolbox. Nor do new features simply spring into existence. However, if a slightly altered body component provides some benefit, natural selection will perpetuate it. Evolution results in incremental alterations to what is already there. As an analogy, imagine a robot gardener dragging a hose around various obstacles it encounters in a garden until it can go no further. Now an intelligent gardener could simply retrace his steps and take a different path, avoiding those obstacles. The robot gardener (evolution) is not an intelligent force and cannot do that. With a limited tool kit, it can only (figuratively) add more hose to get the job done. While a thumb would be quite useful to a panda for stripping leaves, evolution cannot rewind to produce one. Instead, it has taken "a piece of hose' (a wrist bone) and enlarged it to act as a stand in for a thumb. That is not an elegant solution and not a perfect one, but it gets the job done. Evolution is does not produce perfect solutions, but tweaks here and there to "get the job done". THAT is how evolution operates. Based in part on the fact that no tetrapods, (terrestrial vertebrates) exist in the fossil record prior to about 370 million years ago, the Theory of Evolution would predict that tetrapods evolved from fish. If that were the case, there should have existed at one time a fish with characteristics of both fish and tetrapods. In other words a Transitional Species. Until about 2005, there was little evidence for such a creature. There were however, a class of fish called Sarcopterygians or Lobe Finned Fishes, that dominated Devonian seas. What characterized those lobe finned fishes was that those fins were supported by external bones and muscles. Those bones, a single bone, connected to two bones connected to smaller bones, are analogous to the limb bones of all tetrapods, including humans. Most Sarcopterygian Fishes have long been extinct, but they are survived today by two species of coelacanth and six species of lungfish. Still, what was missing was a fossil showing characteristics of fish AND tetrapods. When Neil Shubin and his team decided to search for a fossil that filled the gap between the Lobe Finned Fishes that dominated Devonian Seas and the earliest tetrapod fossils represented by Ichthyostega and Acanthostega dated about 370 mya. Since those fossils were found in geologic deposits indicating a freshwater environment and if the Theory of Evolution is correct in its hypothesis that tetrapods evolved from fish, then transitional fossils should be found in similar deposits somewhat older in age. The problem was that geologic deposits of that age are exposed at few places on the earth's surface. Fortunately, a great deal of geologic exploration has been done throughout the world, financed often times by oil and mining interests. They selected an area in the Canadian Arctic, Ellesmere Island, as having the greatest likelihood of success. It took 4 years of searching during the short summers of that hostile environment but succeeded, returning in 2004 with 9 specimens of the fish they named Tiktaalik. It was exactly what one would expect a transitional fish-tetrapod to look like and was found in deposits dated 375 mya. If this was not the direct ancestor of tetrapods, it was something very much like it.This is a great example of using evolutionary theory as a predictive tool, The genetic variation within a population is referred to as a gene pool. Organisms can move freely within that population breeding with each other perpetuating any new mutations that work and eliminating those that are less than optimal.Each offspring will most resemble its parents, yet will vary slightly genetically because of unique mutations acquired during meiosis. Thus the genetic makeup of a population will change ever so slightly with each successive generation. Populations are not stable, they expand and contract with changing conditions. So long as there is sufficient genetic variation within a population there will be some members capable of surviving those conditions and perpetuating the species. The alternative is extinction. When populations expand and migrate to new territories, some portions of it will become genetically isolated from each other and no longer share a common gene pool. In such cases, each such sub population will carry a subset of the parent population, but subsequent mutations will be unique to each new population (the genotype) that will come to differentiate that population from others (Genetic Drift). To the extent that such populations encounter differing environmental conditions, that environment will exert different evolutionary pressures on that population. New mutations will have a much greater chance of coming to dominance within a smaller population than they would in the larger parent population where they would be one among the many. Over thousands of generations genetic differences accumulate in the different gene pools making interbreeding ever more difficult until at some point speciation can be said to have occurred. Because speciation is a process, rather than an event, it would be no more possible to pinpoint where speciation occurred than to identify where on the color spectrum orange becomes red.

[@asdfghasdfgh4334]

His voice is so damn calm that made me sleep while watching😭 now im late for my bio exam

[@RandallWilks]

Geology shows that fossils are of different ages. Paleontology shows a fossil sequence, the list of species represented changes through time. Taxonomy shows biological relationships among species. Evolution is the explanation that threads it all together. Creationism is the practice of squeezing one's eyes shut and wailing "Does not!"

[@RandallWilks]

You have a penchant for making assertions lacking supporting evidence. I have asked you repeatedly for any evidence, ANYTHING AT ALL, that would give any credence to your assertions of "supernatural force". And you remain strangely silent on the matter. It is however possible to prove God's existence. Proof of God is very simple. All it would take is a verifiable miracle. Miracle cures are too easy to fake; try a REAL miracle, the restoration of a missing limb. Reach out to some deserving Christian, a child would be best, and pray for that missing limb to be restored. If God is truly omnipotent, it is certainly possible. And Jesus has said on at least a dozen occasions that your prayers WILL be answered. So many times we have been told of people miraculously cured of cancer and other serious maladies, but not once has a limb been restored and the question must be asked WHY??? Does God hate amputees? Is it that no one has prayed hard enough? Perhaps God is really not omnipotent, but impotent. Perhaps Jesus lied and God's answer is "Fuck You". OR perhaps this religion thing is just a crock of shit.

[@zm_azathoth8797]

@@RandallWilks master! I see this Christian who so smart and I want to learn more from you!

[@MarkAnthonymark24ant]

post more videos

[@MarkAnthonymark24ant]

I guess this is just gonna go ignored

[@MShepherd88]

Mark Anthony FYI: they posted a new video 4 days ago about whether science can explain the creation of life on Earth. Also, I don't think Mr. Perry is trying to ignore your comment...they are just in need of donations right now to make more videos, and have started a kickstarter campaign to raise money.

[@StatedClearly]

Sorry for accidentally ignoring you Mark, I get many comments a day and can't read them all. We are running a kickstarter and it's going well. Check it out here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/statedclearly/defend-evolution-with-clear-friendly-instruction

[@meganmanor3808]

Natural Selection is something new to me. This video did a great job I thought of explaining everything. Natural Selection is non-randomly selecting which animal will be surviving and producing to make the best outcome.

[@TheKutia]

best explanation ever, great work!

[@lucasmatteis]

@Zhaoxin Li I don't agree with you.

[@TheEvolvedprimate]

"Stated clearly"... You should do more videos,.. These are great. :-D

[@timothybent7502]

Thank you so Much this has greatly helped on my 7th grade science final. You just got a new subscriber. :)

[@rawanahmead_620]

That's cool thank you 😊

[@laisdias973]

the farmer's wife looks so sad i hope she find happiness somehow..

[@shannonmurphy721]

Anyone else watching this video as a freshman in Highschool for class in quarantine?

[@RandallWilks]

Most people are appalled when someone murders or attempts to murder a child. Even more so when it is a parent attacking their own child. It is universally condemned. Almost. Tell a true believer the perpetrator was Abraham and their response is “Oh, that’s different. God ordered him to do it”. Oh REALLY? Does that sound at all like a rational response? And what kind of god would play a sick trick like that? Testing Abraham to see if he would do god’s will? Isn’t this god supposed to be omniscient and omnipotent? Wouldn’t he know beforehand? And what about “Thou shalt not kill”? Oh, excuse me, THAT didn’t come until LATER. O.K. so later, Moses gets the 10 commandments, and chief among them is that “Thou shalt not kill” commandment. Now, everyone probably feels that is a good commandment that needs to be observed except perhaps in war or self-defense. Well, according to the bible there are other exceptions: To those of you who see the bible as the inerrant word of god; you must be extremely busy, as true believers, putting to death adulterers (Deuteronomy 22:23-24, Leviticus 20:10);homosexuals (Leviticus 20:13), non virgins (Deuteronomy 22:20-21), and any of your neighbors foolish enough to mow their lawn on the Sabbath (Exodus 31:12-15,Exodus 35:1-3,Numbers 15:32-36). Your neighborhoods must be scenes of daily carnage. And using the bible as a source of morality? Here is a wonderful example of biblical morality: Numbers 31:14-18 14 Moses was angry with the officers of the army-the commanders of thousands and commanders of hundreds-who returned from the battle. 15 “Have you allowed all the women to live?” he asked them. 16 “They were the ones who followed Balaam’s advice and enticed the Israelites to be unfaithful to the Lord in the Peor incident, so that a plague struck the Lord’s people. 17 Now kill all the boys. And kill every woman who has slept with a man, 18 but save for yourselves every girl who has never slept with a man. 31:35 And thirty and two thousand persons in all, of women that had not known man by lying with him. By any standards, that is pretty horrific cold-blooded murder of thousands of women and children, followed by the rape of 32,000 young girls. Oh, and speaking of rape, surely that is one of the ‘Thou shalt nots’ of the ten commandments. NO??? Take a look at these REALLY important commandments (there are different versions within the bible). Thou shalt not: Worship other gods Work on the Sabbath (death penalty crime) Take the name of the lord in vain Make graven images Covet thy neighbor’s wife (ass, house, etc.) And, oh yes, ‘thou shalt not kill’ and ‘thou shalt not steal’ are in there somewhere. But rape? Not one word!!! How about elsewhere in the bible? Surely the bible must condemn it somewhere? Oh, yes, I found it. Deuteronomy 22:28-29 28 If a man happens to meet a virgin who is not pledged to be married and rapes her and they are discovered, 29 he shall pay her father fifty shekels[a] of silver. He must marry the young woman, for he has violated her. He can never divorce her as long as he lives. YESSS! There it is. Rape is a PROPERTY crime. The rapist has damaged the father’s PROPERTY and it is he that must be compensated. What justice for the victim of the rape? She has to marry her rapist. Surely she lived happily ever after, no? Here, as elsewhere in the bible, women have no say in their future. And slavery; you would think that the bible must take a firm stand against it. Think again. Exodus 21:20-21 20 “Anyone who beats their male or female slave with a rod must be punished if the slave dies as a direct result, 21 but they are not to be punished if the slave recovers after a day or two, since the slave is their property. These are NOT isolated instances, nor are they taken out of context; these themes are repeated over and over. They are not the actions of a just and loving god, nor do they have any semblance to morality. It is a sign of the irrationality of religion that the ‘faithful’ will ignore or shrug off the most horrific acts in their ‘book of truth’ This is how religion degrades the human mind and destroys the ability to reason.

[@elultimopujilense]

Its obvius you dont have a clue on anything more than an old book full of non-sense and fairy tales. Educate yourself, give it a try. Try to understand what evolution is about.

[@RandallWilks]

ForeignChaos What is obvious is that you never even read my post. Read it, THEN comment. I accept your sincerest apologies in advance.

[@elultimopujilense]

Randall Wilks Oh shit LOL. Sorry my friend, i replied to the worng comment. You actually had a nice point there, im gonna use your comment to debate other religious nuts.

[@RandallWilks]

I would like to point out that the above post is NOT an attack on Christianity; but if your world view depends on your acceptance of Old Testament accounts as sources of truth and morality, you need to think again.

[@vickyowen6035]

Randall Wilks but Abraham is not a murderer. Don't matter if he was a mad nutter or devoutly devoted to God . God stopped him .

[@abbas.9274]

Let's kick natural selection up a few notches

[@ziliath5237]

G Man you would benefit from watching this.

[@liquidsolidus1]

So nature selects the lucky animals who get to survive, how does that particularly advantageous mutation disseminate? Is it just that because they live, that mutation will live on through reproduction?

[@StatedClearly]

+Zain Chawdry you got it!

[@liquidsolidus1]

Thank you sir, you have earned yourself another subscriber!

[@JuanRamos-yw6me]

Zain Chawdry And another one here!

[@manojmani6370]

Zain Chawdry are you an atheist ?

[@gambart2002]

great explanation, thanks for amazing videos.

[@randomlyawesome]

My teacher showed us this in class and natural selection made so much more sense 👍🏼

[@StatedClearly]

+Randomly Awesome - I'm glad it was helpful!

[@lavenderteadreams]

I only have one question: In the video, you stated that the tortoises are the descendants of individuals that randomly floated to the island. That seems highly improbable. How would there be enough arriving at a frequent enough rate to produce a healthy population where inbreeding was not a concern?

[@XGamersGonnaGameX]

The Galapagos islands formed volcanically, they did not separate from the main mass of south america. Why does it seem so unlikely that animals would drift out there? I can easily picture that in my mind.

[@lavenderteadreams]

Thanks for the info about the islands being volcanic. Didn't know that. I didn't say impossible, merely improbable. Those are two very different words. An improbable thing is still entirely possible. It doesn't seem unlikely that some animals could drift there. It seems unlikely that enough members of the same species to form a healthy population could all drift there within a short enough span of time to breed with one another before dying. One or two here and there floating on some debris seems more than possible. I'm just confused as to how that could happen frequently enough to establish a population large enough that inbreeding would not be a significant issue.

[@EdwinLuciano]

This page talks about that issue: www.galapagos.org/about_galapagos/about-galapagos/history/species-arrival-and-evolution/

[@lavenderteadreams]

+Edwin Luciano Actually, that doesn't provide any new information not mentioned in the video. It does, however, seem to imply that the number of individuals necessary to form a healthy breeding population (known as the minimum viable population) may be significantly smaller in some species than in others. For example, I believe for humans that it is around 160 or so, but it could be possible that for tortoises that number is much smaller, for example 20 or 30. That is the real answer to my question, and I had to infer it on my own. This information should really be explicitly stated on their website if this is the case.

[@MichaelFortner1989]

It's worth noting that "minimum viable population" is a probabilistic concept. It's a number that answers a question of the form "what is the smallest population that I would expect to be alive in 100 years 90 out of 100 times, given what we know about various things like inbreeding, predation, reproduction, etc" there's a similar question for "5 out of 100 times" that could allow a higher rate of small rafting events to have the same outcome of one big viable one. A single population just has to beat the odds.

[@studyhistory2ctruth]

Nope this is all wrong thor did it

[@_markghu]

what are you talking about. THOR?

[@kartikeypanwar9622]

Odin- hold my bear

[@aeebeecee3737]

Science is not stand for truth, science easy be moved and collapsed inspect to wrong. So if natural selection be proved is wrong someday, that’s okay.

[@therobot1080]

Sarcasm

[@aeebeecee3737]

for the science there ain’t rights and truth to believe in the world but all is the stuff we can suspect, inspect, adjustable and editable by science methods, science doesn’t receive the description that can’t be disproved, if the description can’t be disproved then the description be invalid. Natural selection theory is the mother theory of biology not because it can interpret what and predict what will be next to every creature we found in the earth and also it can be disproved.

[@mymavi]

What nature the first cell had to use the natural selection?

[@kingthief9118]

What do you mean?

[@leobriccocola8141]

@@kingthief9118 Some poor phrased question about where the first cell came from.

[@garth2356]

This is the best video on KZbin to make a religious person understand what natural selection really is. That is tough!! Can't wait for more videos from this channel!

[@beanie.alt.acc.]

Who else is here because of "Biology Class"

[@sophiavega3990]

Sadly I am

[@AntXUnofficial]

you just gon make a dude wanna rap at the end

[@sydneycromwell3348]

I had such a hard time understanding this, all of the other videos made it way too complicated. this video made me understand things much better. thankyou :)

[@dereksheedy1180]

I'm not really good at these things, so don't be harsh, but... is natural selection the thing that makes evolution work and vice versa?

[@StatedClearly]

Evolution is simply change over time within a population. Natural Selection is what shapes that change, making evolution move in a direction that allows a creature to better survive and reproduce within its environment.

[@dereksheedy1180]

Stated Clearly Oh, I kinda understand now. Thanks for clearing things up! The video was rlly good btw X3

[@RandallWilks]

Derek Sheedy The two components of evolution are mutation and natural selection. Mutations are (usually) small changes in the letters that make up DNA. They can be insertions, deletions or substitutions. If those changes occur within a gene (a portion of DNA that makes a protein), they may have some effect on the organism. If the effect is bad, the organism is less likely to survive and reproduce. Factors affecting survival would be predators, food supply, climate, etc. If a mutation allows the organism to more effectively deal with those challenges, it is more likely to survive and reproduce. The first, mutation, is entirely random. The second, natural selection, is not.

[@RandallWilks]

“It is not the strongest or the most intelligent who will survive but those who can best manage change.” ― Charles Darwin

[@Zombiehunter360]

Derek Sheedy You should check out another channel as well called Thunderf00t, he's a scientist who is really good at explaining Evolution more simply. :)

[@goofygames_unreal3219]

answer this: What was the belief shared by most scientist till middle of 19 th century?

[@Bbgod221]

Just in case you're in a rush and need to get to the point 7:43

[@BigChessFan]

Imagine thinking that god made the earth instead of garfield

[@idkkk1862]

4:53 they look like dwight and angela :0

[@obax4899]

Who here got Told to do this For school

[@RandallWilks]

*HOW EVOLUTION WORKS* It is helpful to understand that evolution is a molecular process. The random mutations that naturally occur during cell division and replication (mitosis and meiosis) are the raw material for the genetic variation we see in every population of organisms. Mutations are ongoing and continuous for every living species. Mutations are essential to evolution; they are the raw material of genetic variation. Without mutation, evolution could not occur. WITH mutations, evolution is inevitable. [NOTE: My original essay had links to applicable illustrations and scientific studies, but KZbin keeps deleting it. My apologies for their absence here.] Those genetic variants are subjected to a selection process that is performed by whatever environment the organisms find themselves. In this respect, evolution is an ongoing, continuous set of natural experiments. Those that work get perpetuated, those that don't, perish. It is as if the environment acted as an umpire who says "There are good mutations and there are bad mutations and there are neutral mutations, but they ain't nuthin' until I (the environment) calls 'em." That is Natural Selection. Neutral mutations just go along for the ride producing neither immediate benefit nor harm (Genetic Drift). The result of those selection processes is organisms best suited for their current environment. Should that environment change, it would put the population under stress. If the population gene pool has sufficient genetic variation it increases the likelihood that at least some offspring should be able to survive and perpetuate the species (albeit one of slightly different genetic makeup). What everyone should understand is that genetic changes do not occur because of some 'need'. The mutations are RANDOM and get selected if they are USEFUL. That is a process called Natural Selection and it is anything BUT random. Let's take the example of the Panda. Bears in general are omnivores, eating plant matter, but with a marked preference for meat when available. The preferred food of the Panda however, is bamboo leaves, which have such low nutritional value that they must eat almost continuously. The Panda would certainly be able to extract more nutrition with a four chambered stomach (as in ungulates and whales) or something akin to a cecal valve that would slow the passage of food, but it has neither in its genetic toolbox. In feeding themselves, pandas are continuously stripping bamboo leaves from their stalks, a process that could be facilitated if they had a thumb. Bears however do not have thumbs, nor do they have genes for them in their genetic toolbox. Nor do new features simply spring into existence. However, if a slightly altered body component provides some benefit, natural selection will perpetuate it. Evolution is modification with descent and results in incremental alterations to what is already there. As an analogy, imagine a robot gardener dragging a hose around various obstacles it encounters in a garden until it can go no further. Now an intelligent gardener could simply retrace his steps and take a different path, avoiding those obstacles. The robot gardener (evolution) is not an intelligent force and cannot do that. With a limited tool kit, it can only (figuratively) add more hose to get the job done. While a thumb would be quite useful to a panda for stripping leaves, evolution cannot rewind to produce one. Instead, it has taken "a piece of hose' (a wrist bone) and enlarged it to act as a stand in for a thumb. That is not an elegant solution and not a perfect one, but it gets the job done. Evolution is does not produce perfect solutions, but tweaks here and there to get the job done". THAT is how evolution operates. The panda’s "thumb", developed over thousands of generations of holding things, is clearly an enlarged bone (the “radial sesamoid”) in the the paw of a bear. Based in part on the fact that no tetrapods, (terrestrial vertebrates) exist in the fossil record prior to about 370 million years ago, the Theory of Evolution would predict that tetrapods evolved from fish. If that were the case, there should have existed at one time a fish with characteristics of both fish and tetrapods. In other words a Transitional Species. Until about 2005, there was little evidence for such a creature. There were however, a class of fish called Sarcopterygians or Lobe Finned Fishes, that dominated Devonian seas. What characterized those lobe finned fishes was that those fins were supported by external bones and muscles. Those bones, a single bone, connected to two bones connected to smaller bones, are analogous to the limb bones of all tetrapods, including humans. Most Sarcopterygian Fishes have long been extinct, but they are survived today by two species of coelacanth and six species of lungfish. Still, what was missing was a fossil showing characteristics of fish AND tetrapods. When Neil Shubin and his team decided to search for a fossil that filled the gap between the Lobe Finned Fishes that dominated Devonian Seas and the earliest tetrapod fossils represented by Ichthyostega and Acanthostega dated about 370 mya. Since those fossils were found in geologic deposits indicating a freshwater environment and if the Theory of Evolution is correct in its hypothesis that tetrapods evolved from fish, then transitional fossils should be found in similar deposits somewhat older in age. The problem was that geologic deposits of that age are exposed at few places on the earth's surface. Fortunately, a great deal of geologic exploration has been done throughout the world, financed often times by oil and mining interests. They selected an area in the Canadian Arctic, Ellesmere Island, as having the greatest likelihood of success. It took 4 years of searching during the short summers of that hostile environment but succeeded, returning in 2004 with 9 specimens of the fish they named Tiktaalik. It was exactly what one would expect a transitional fish-tetrapod to look like and was found in deposits dated 375 mya. If this was not the direct ancestor of tetrapods, it was something very much like it.This is a great example of using evolutionary theory as a predictive tool. Btw, biointeractive(dot)org is a great source of information for all of science. If anyone has an interest in expanding their knowledge of science they should use it. The genetic variation within a population is referred to as a gene pool. Organisms can move freely within that population breeding with each other, perpetuating any new mutations that work and eliminating those that are less than optimal. Each offspring will most resemble its parents, yet will vary slightly genetically because of unique mutations acquired during meiosis. Thus the genetic makeup of a population will change ever so slightly with each successive generation. Populations are not stable, they expand and contract with changing conditions. So long as there is sufficient genetic variation within a population there will be some members capable of surviving those conditions and perpetuating the species. The alternative is extinction. When populations expand and migrate to new territories, some portions of it will become genetically isolated from each other and no longer share a common gene pool. In such cases, each such sub population will carry a subset of the parent population genome, but subsequent mutations will be unique to each new population (the genotype) that will come to differentiate that population from others (Genetic Drift). To the extent that such populations encounter differing environmental conditions, that environment will exert different evolutionary pressures on that population. New mutations will have a much greater chance of coming to dominance within a smaller population than they would in the larger parent population where they would be one among the many. Over thousands of generations genetic differences accumulate in the different gene pools making interbreeding ever more difficult until at some point speciation can be said to have occurred. Because speciation is a process, rather than an event, it would be no more possible to pinpoint where speciation occurred than to identify where on the color spectrum orange becomes red.

[@ironseb6316]

Those farmers are looking into my soul...

[@SteelCurrent]

Ironseb OK

[@masol3726]

I was born with my ring and index finger being webbed to each other. Like duck.

[@mechasatsu6214]

chances are, if you make love of your opposite sex with the same uniqueness, it is more likely that your baby will have that too, but i bit different. either enhanced of eliminated.

[@masol3726]

Jhaedi Avila Yes, that seems like a good thing because my child might be able to swim faster and pass on his "Webbed fingers" genes to his children and so on.

[@masol3726]

Mark Anthony Bulaon No its just a genetic mutation that caused my index and middle to have an extended skin joint.

[@masol3726]

andre jones No, i can't turn into human from a duck. Its just a genetic random mutation i think so.

[@martingrof1685]

You have no idea what your'e talking about, its very funny.

[@phxtonash]

Humans have tail bones wisdom teeth and curved backs

[@LittleBraveWarriorIsBest]

+phxtonash Yup and its believed that will go away one day

[@LosloTypical]

Although I do believe we evolved from primates, the primates we evolved from were ape like, but didn't have tails.

[@alejrandom6592]

@@LosloTypical they lost them

[@katyaaa866]

PhxtoNash and a soul!!

[@navyaverma7254]

Thanku soooooooooo much you have just cleared by two years doubt

[@FireCalvinMaster]

"GOD DID IT"

[@SiSi-oi2or]

Tank u, someone wo understands

[@FireCalvinMaster]

Wesley Snaggletooth The quotation marks meant that they were not my words, I meant it to be taken sarcastically. Sorry.

[@SiSi-oi2or]

God bless you all

[@huntermcclurg6169]

Wesley Snaggletooth I am an atheist, but I disagree when you say God has been proven not to exist. We have not, and probably cannot, prove or disprove his existence, although we can come to conclusions based off of what we DO know on whether the existence is plausible or not.

[@perplexedcreature3329]

Hunter McClurg Well said mate...

[@SpeckInTheUniverseMihirSemwal]

I live to tell the tale, nature selected me for my superiority, yahooo, I am the best....

[@x42brown]

Have you descendants? Until you have the selection hasn't been made.

[@daniellclary]

But how does the turtle survive till it gets the neck to reach those cactus? Unless they where short to begin with.

[@KohuGaly]

There are three possibilities: a) the hights of the cacti and turtle necks co-evolved in an "arms-race" b) a turtle with short neck can still eat cacti, albeit less efficiently than turtle with marginally longer neck. c) the turtle originally evolved longer neck for different reason and it happened to be useful in this scenario too, further amplifying the effect.

[@RandallWilks]

HOLY SHIT Andre, who was the idiot that explained evolution to you? You need to hunt that sucker down and kick the shit out of him for making you look so stupid.

[@RandallWilks]

If you cannot understand that evolution is not one animal turning into another, then you are incapable of understanding the complexities of evolution. Go to school and get an education.

[@KohuGaly]

andre jones I think you are very close-minded. If you what to rely only on things that you yourself saw, then how do you know for example that moon has other side... hell how do you even know that neptune exists. Or how do you know your body is capable of dying - it certainly haven't died before...

[@daniellclary]

Your examples does not really support your opinion due to your examples has actual current documentations and photographs and has been observed by others. evolution or significant survival of the fittest on a grand scale was not observed or documented.

[@chrisevans473]

Your explanation is so clear sir Thank you

[@rajveerbhardwaj8470]

I ain’t here for homework I’m just watching it out of curiosity anyone else with me ?

[@viruchamp]

Ditto !! I was reading a psychology book just for fun and veered off to this topic ..lol Got to admit the videos are so informative and entertaining.

[@firefox4743]

Same binge watching Newton, Einstein, Darwin ,Michael Faraday ...and reading Tesla ,Carl Gustav Jung all randomly selected lol

[@rajveerbhardwaj8470]

fire fox I see

[@rajveerbhardwaj8470]

Virat Sharma gotta agree with you there bro Stated Clearly always gives good content and have you watched their video “Where Do new viruses 🦠 come from” if not then you should it’s an excellent video

[@viruchamp]

@@rajveerbhardwaj8470 I presume you're from India. And if so, I'm glad that the country is going to do well with knowledge seekers like you . As the saying goes, knowledge is power. Best wishes!

[@MonsieurFeshe]

anyone else here to win an argument???? lol

[@User5973]

Are all of the comments initiated by creationist trolls?

[@billyca7028]

glad i found this video

[@olivia-fi7ms]

THANK THIS JUST SAVED MY GRADE!

[@Mravenger5]

the real question is what was exactly the first living organism on the whole planet and where did it come from ???? and how it did evolve into millions of different living organisms and what about the universe ansd who causes the big bang theory to happen and if it happend by itself !!!! where did this huge giant thing came from besides the million of other glaxies around us where did they come from ????? .....

[@wooe]

*the real question is what was exactly the first living organism on the whole planet and where did it come from ?* No one know exactly what the first life form was yet. It's not sure we ever will know since that form of life don't leave traces the same way more advanced and bigger forms of life do. But we know that it arouse through a process that we call abiogenesis. *and how it did evolve into millions of different living organisms* What do you mean by how? Evolution is the process. *what about the universe ansd who causes the big bang theory to happen and if it happend by itself !!!! where did this huge giant thing came from besides the million of other glaxies around us where did they come from ?????* There is no "who" involved here. Before the big bang all energy in the universe were condensed in to one small singularity. At one point this singularity started to expand, that is what we call the big bang. Explaining the big bang and also how galaxies form is quite big subjects. But if you are interested you can read more about them here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang and here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galaxy The Galaxy article got one part named Formation that you'll find interesting.

[@TheGreenDyedSheepMC]

Hoops590 Oh, well. If you say so

[@RandallWilks]

Hoops seems to think his assertions constitute fact. Not today, not yesterday, not ever.

[@eobias]

The thing with science is it's ok to say we don't know certain areas yet and we're trying to find out, if you think it's wrong prove us wrong in fact they like to be proven wrong, it doesn't profess to know all

[@ArunSeshadriDoctor]

my friend yesterday medicine was a black magic ........people thought you get sick because of evil spirit and/or curse today we cure evil spirit and curse with antibiotics yesterday we had another thought about disease so as god origin of life today

[@letsstartawarsaidmaggieoneday]

Eric Harris

[@alexminto5335]

Why does England have so many famous Charles’ Charles Dickens Charles Darwin Charles Shakespeare

[@somespecies]

You forgot Prince Charles

[@alexminto5335]

Some Specie not important

[@cheese763]

“Charles Shakespeare” -i

[@cheese763]

It’s not ‘William Shakespeare’ it’s ‘Charles’ Shakespeare now

[@sophiejung8866]

I had to read text Book over and over yet didn’t understand. Other video also failed to have me understand the concept of natural selection. I finally now get it by watching your video. Thank you so much!!! Better than my professor and text Book:::

[@RandallWilks]

Hi Sophie, I just posted a couple of my essays above. Let me know if you find them helpful.

[@TassiaNathalia]

Love it. Keep up the good work!

[@katdfinns]

finally, I get it. Thank you.

[@davidg8522]

Wonderful illustrations and analysis! Kudos to you Jon and the many others who helped make this video!

[@tonyclarke24]

Is it that hard to say Jesus Christ created everything? 🤷🏽‍♀️

[@picturepainter]

Not for Sunday school teachers. They've said it to kids every week for generations. It's why the myth still persists today in some parts of the world.

[@richardblazer8070]

No, but just because something is easier to understand doesn’t mean it is correct.

[@miri8851]

Yes magic is very hard to argue for.

[@joshua_prime3743]

The weak shall perish

[@Alireza_farhoudi]

No strong shall perish.

[@RandallWilks]

*Here's how creationist logic fails:* Let’s assume that you, with no prior knowledge of amphibians, were to discover a pool of water with a large number of tadpoles. You take them home and place them in an aquarium. Upon examination you determine that they have no limbs but do have a tail that is used for propulsion and gills for extracting oxygen from the water. You might then reasonably assume that either they were fish or something akin to fish. Lets further assume that for whatever reason, your attention was diverted for a couple of weeks. Upon again seeing the aquarium, you are surprised to find not tadpoles, but frogs. This would no doubt come as a great surprise. Since the aquarium was covered, there was no way the tadpoles could have escaped, nor any way the frogs could have entered. Two possibilities exist; either the tadpoles had somehow transitioned into frogs, or that some form of magic had occurred. Now, someone might argue that since intervening stages were not observed, no transition is possible. The conclusion for such people would be that it must have been magic. The incredulity of such people would be understandable. The change in morphology was HUGE; lungs developed, gills shrank, limbs developed and the tail absorbed. To the uninitiated, tadpoles and frogs would appear to be different KINDS of animals, yet they are products of the same genome. The tadpoles and the frogs had identical genes, but different genes were expressed (activated) at different times and durations. Now, this is metamorphosis, not evolution, but it does demonstrate that genes, under epigenetic control can dramatically effect different morphology and organ function. That is something creationists claim is impossible.

[@sabrinasabrina5912]

Okay you’re right,but since the development of a tadpole becoming a frog is still happening how come the development of an ape becoming human has stopped?

[@therobot1080]

@@sabrinasabrina5912 bc humans are in one branch of evolution and other primates on other branches

[@threebythestreet]

@@sabrinasabrina5912 A tadpole becoming frog is metamorphosis. That is different than evolution.

[@andisoshal3715]

Thank you. This is an easily digestible summary of Natural Selection. It's very important that ideas, theories and indeed facts are made accessible to simpletons like me. By putting this into simple, bite-sized and understandable terms, you've helped in reaching the masses, most of whom (like me) are not super intelligent or academic, but who have a mind and want to use it, given the information to hand. Well done!

[@bgoodfella7413]

When the Buddha taught "ALL iS ONE", he seen that we came from common descent and are inter-related. :)

[@bgoodfella7413]

***** Yeah, imho I think so. Yet I 'd say that Buddhism is more related to the science of Psychology than evolution or cosmology, etc. Buddha taught to study one's own thoughts and meditate to clear the mind. It is kind of a self psychotherapy in which the Buddha is alluded to as "the doctor" and his teachings are "the medicine". Also Buddhism puts reason and analysis alongside faith on an equal setting. One should not forego investigation before believing anything. And supernaturalism of any kind is to be skeptical of yet open to the possibility. Thanks, peace

[@tadstrange1465]

google’s too advanced Well, it depends on what branch of Buddhism were speaking of.

[@klc2834]

POV: You're here because of biology class

[@matthewchu2286]

yep

[@late8641]

You have the best teachers. I'm here out of personal interest.

[@milordfan1134]

I'm here for my personal interest

[@iclubseals6232]

Like the seals I've clubbed. They were too stupid and slow to run away.

[@Anonymous-gs9cu]

+I Club Seals omg thats terrible :((((

[@R3tr0v1ru5]

+I Club Seals You don't understand Natural Selection. But that was a funny comment.

[@JK_2998]

Its the seals fault for not developing the ability to escape you.

[@emptycrate3050]

I Club Seals I shall Avenge the seals 😭😈😈 Animals attack 🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐘🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐗🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐺🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐶🐯🐯🐯🐯🐯🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅🐅🐃🐃🐃🐃🐃🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐂🐲🐲🐲🐲🐲🐫🐫🐊🐊🐊🐊

[@ladistar]

This is horrible but I admit I laughed lol