Antonio Damasio: How Our Brains Feel Emotion
[8:52] An emotion consists of a very well orchestrated set of alterations in the body. Its purpose is to make life more su…
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What is the Evidence for Evolution?
[11:21] Biologists teach that all living things on Earth are related. Is there any solid evidence to back this claim? Jo…
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Ancient DNA and Human Evolution: Neandertal and Denisovan Genomes and What They Tell Us
[16:37] In this talk Kay Prüfer (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology) explains that the analysis of h…
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Will Genetic Modification Create Perfect Humans?
[3:40] CRISPR is going to revolutionize human DNA. How does genetic modification even work? [Source: Life Noggin YouT…
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The science of skin color
[4:53] When ultraviolet sunlight hits our skin, it affects each of us differently. Depending on skin color, it’ll ta…
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Laurie Santos: Are Humans Naturally Polygamists?
[2:54] There are morphological indications that we’re somewhere between a species meant to pair bond and our po…
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Sequencing Ancient DNA
[8:42] UC Santa Cruz Scientists, Beth Shapiro and Ed Green use DNA sequencing to transcribe the history of ancient spec…
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How the choices you make can affect your genes
[5:02] Here’s a conundrum: Identical twins originate from the same DNA … so how can they turn out so different â…
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How Do Chameleons Change Color?
[5:41] New research shows chameleons actively tune nano-crystals to change their color. [Source: Veritasium YouT…
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The Neanderthal sculpture garden
[1:25] They are some of the oldest human constructions known, lost for almost two hundred thousand years, deep in a cave …
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