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Keturi milijardai metų evoliucijos per šešias minutes

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Prosanta Chakrabarty |

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• April 2018

Ar žmogus išsivystė iš beždžionių ar iš žuvų? Šia informatyvia kalba TED narys ichtiologas Prosanta Chakrabarty išsklaido kai kuriuos įsišaknijusius mitus apie evoliuciją, skatindamas mus prisiminti, kad esame tik maža sudėtingo, keturis milijardus metų trunkančio proceso dalis, o ne galutinis taškas. „Mes nesame evoliucijos tikslas“, sako Chakrabarty. „Įsivaizduokite mus kaip jaunus lapelius ant seno, milžiniško gyvybės medžio, nematomomis šakomis susietus ne tik vieni su kitais, bet ir su savo išnykusiais giminaičiais ir evoliuciniais protėviais.“

Ar žmogus išsivystė iš beždžionių ar iš žuvų? Šia informatyvia kalba TED narys ichtiologas Prosanta Chakrabarty išsklaido kai kuriuos įsišaknijusius mitus apie evoliuciją, skatindamas mus prisiminti, kad esame tik maža sudėtingo, keturis milijardus metų trunkančio proceso dalis, o ne galutinis taškas. „Mes nesame evoliucijos tikslas“, sako Chakrabarty. „Įsivaizduokite mus kaip jaunus lapelius ant seno, milžiniško gyvybės medžio, nematomomis šakomis susietus ne tik vieni su kitais, bet ir su savo išnykusiais giminaičiais ir evoliuciniais protėviais.“

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Prosanta Chakrabarty studies fish to help explain the evolution of human beings and our planet.

Douglas J. Futuyma | Sinauer Associates, Inc., 2013 | Book

Evolution, Third Edition

There are many college textbooks on evolution. This one by Doug Futuyma is my favorite, and the one I structure my classes on. For an academic, well-argued, and clearly presented view of the topic, one needs to look no further.

Christopher D. Lynn (ed.) et al | Palgrave Macmillan | Book

Evolution Education in the American South: Culture, Politics, and Resources in and Around Alabama

This insightful book goes through a number of topics related to teaching evolution in the US and provides insights into how some teachers in the South deal with these issues. I wrote a chapter in this book called “Teaching Louisiana Students About Evolution by Comparing the Anatomy of Fishes and Humans," which is largely the inspiration for this TED Talk.

PBS, 2014 | Watch

Your Inner Fish

Neil Shubin, one of the most accomplished and multi-talented evolutionary biologists alive (from human anatomy and fish paleontology to genomics and science communication), wrote an easy-to-read book explaining human anatomy as a product of our fishy origins — which has now been turned into an even better PBS series

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This talk was presented at an official TED conference. TED's editors chose to feature it for you.

Learn more about Prosanta Chakrabarty's research and how to support his work on evolution and the Tree of Life.