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Taught by Professor Indre Viskontas | 30 min | Categories: Science
Today, Charles Darwin's landmark theory of evolution is biology's fundamental organizing principle. So how did this revolutionary idea come about, and what were its roots? What scientific evidence proves the fundamental importance of evolution? What do antibiotics reveal about how the tireless tinkering of natural selection works in everyday life?
24 Lectures
1
The Miracle of Life
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of 34 min
2
The Organization of Life
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of 29 min
3
Evolution-The Tireless Tinkerer
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of 30 min
4
Other Mechanisms of Evolution
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of 31 min
5
DNA and Heritability
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of 30 min
6
Epigenetics, Mutations, and Gene Insertion
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of 31 min
7
The Illusion of Coherence-How We See
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of 29 min
8
Acoustic Perception Deconstructed
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of 30 min
9
Our Changing Brain
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of 29 min
10
Plasticity, Brain Training, and Beyond
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of 31 min
11
Magnetism and Its Magic
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of 28 min
12
Electrical Forces, Fields, and Circuits
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of 28 min
13
Thermodynamics-Heat, Energy, and Work
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of 29 min
14
Metabolism-Energy in the Cell
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of 31 min
15
Fluid Mechanics-Pressure, Buoyancy, Flow
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of 28 min
16
Navigation and Propulsion in Fluids
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of 30 min
17
The Big Bang That Didn't
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of 29 min
18
The Four Forces of Nature
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of 32 min
19
The Elements of Everything
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of 29 min
20
Looks like a Particle, Acts like a Wave
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of 30 min
21
Quanta, Uncertainty, and a Cat
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of 31 min
22
String Theory, Membranes, and the Multiverse
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of 31 min
23
Emergence-Simple Rules, Complex Systems
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of 31 min
24
Order out of Chaos
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of 32 min
