PickVidsBest Evolution & genetics Videos
The 57 Evolution & genetics videos here were recommended by different people across different months. Choose by who it is for: 5 introductory, 10 intermediate, 41 for a general viewer, and 1 for someone who wants the harder derivation. Most of them are an explainer. What they share is that one picture or analogy is used to supply a missing concept. Channels you will keep seeing include Veritasium, The Royal Institution, TED.
Ken Stanley: Discovery Without Objectives
A 92-minute RMIT University seminar in which Ken Stanley argues that setting an objective can block achieving it.
How to Slow Aging (and even reverse it)
Veritasium presents David Sinclair's information theory of aging, which says aging is a loss of epigenetic information, and the evidence that aging can be slowed or reversed.
Evolved Virtual Creatures (1994)
A restored 1994 video of Karl Sims' research on evolved virtual creatures, where simulated block creatures are bred through artificial evolution to swim, walk, follow and compete.
Cynthia Kenyon: Experiments that hint of longer lives
TED talk by biochemist Cynthia Kenyon on how a simple genetic mutation can double the lifespan of the worm C.
BBC Planet Earth - Birds of Paradise mating dance
A short BBC Planet Earth clip from the Pole to Pole episode showing the courtship displays of birds of paradise.
Polyworld: Using Evolution to Design Artificial Intelligence
A 2007 Google Tech Talk introducing Polyworld, an artificial life simulator used to evolve artificial intelligence by designing worlds rather than minds.
Why is Life the Way it Is? with Nick Lane
Nick Lane's Royal Institution lecture on the origin of life and why it is the way it is.
Rhonda Patrick: Nutrigenomics, Epigenetics, and Stress Tolerance
Rhonda Patrick gives an IHMC talk on how genetic variation affects micronutrient absorption and metabolism, and how diet changes gene expression.
The Longest-Running Evolution Experiment
Veritasium visits Richard Lenski's lab to explain the decades-long E.