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16:56
Robert Wright
The evolution of compassion
Posted
Oct 2008
4:07
Alex Gendler
Myths and misconceptions about evolution
Posted
Jul 2013
5:15
Menno Schilthuizen
The evolution of animal genitalia
Posted
Apr 2017
4:44
Edsel Salvaña
The dangerous evolution of HIV
Posted
Jan 2018
17:21
Harvey Fineberg
Are we ready for neo-evolution?
Posted
Apr 2011
4:28
Joshua Harvey
The evolution of the human eye
Posted
Jan 2015
3:01
A.J. Jacobs
The evolution of the coffee cup lid
Posted
Feb 2020
5:41
Prosanta Chakrabarty
Four billion years of evolution in six minutes
Posted
Jun 2018
18:16
Jonathan Haidt
Religion, evolution, and the ecstasy of self-transcendence
Posted
Mar 2012
5:25
Laurence Hurst
Is human evolution speeding up or slowing down?
Posted
Sep 2020
10:06
Emma Hart
Self-assembling robots and the potential of artificial evolution
Posted
Mar 2022
3:53
Vance Kite
Urbanization and the evolution of cities across 10,000 years
Posted
Sep 2013
16:48
Juan Enriquez
Will our kids be a different species?
Posted
Jun 2012
28:10
Tim Birkhead
The early birdwatchers
Posted
Sep 2010
6:05
Lauren Sallan
How to win at evolution and survive a mass extinction
Posted
Oct 2017
17:13
Elaine Morgan
I believe we evolved from aquatic apes
Posted
Jul 2009
3:12
Carl Zimmer
How did feathers evolve?
Posted
May 2013
17:27
Ocean Ramsey
Why the world needs sharks
Posted
Jul 2019
20:00
Kevin Kelly
How technology evolves
Posted
Nov 2006
57:37
Richard Dawkins
Growing up in the universe
Posted
Jan 2010
10:40
Jeremy Rifkin
The empathic civilization
Posted
Aug 2010
11:23
Juliet Brophy
How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution
Posted
Mar 2019
19:11
Robert Wright
Progress is not a zero-sum game
Posted
Jan 2007
9:11
Nora Brown
"East Virginia" / "John Brown's Dream"
Posted
Mar 2019
17:51
Gregory Stock
To upgrade is human
Posted
Apr 2009
23:27
Helen Fisher
Why we love, why we cheat
Posted
Sep 2006
13:45
Pilobolus
A dance of "Symbiosis"
Posted
Feb 2007
13:31
Suzana Herculano-Houzel
What is so special about the human brain?
Posted
Nov 2013
17:01
Svante Pääbo
DNA clues to our inner neanderthal
Posted
Aug 2011
17:08
Yuval Noah Harari
What explains the rise of humans?
Posted
Jul 2015
11:23
James Keblas
How one city became a music capital
Posted
Aug 2019
16:30
Beau Lotto
Optical illusions show how we see
Posted
Oct 2009
24:45
Dan Dennett
Let's teach religion — all religion — in schools
Posted
Jul 2006
1h 27m
Douglas Adams
Parrots, the universe and everything
Posted
Mar 2010
19:10
Danny Hillis
Back to the future (of 1994)
Posted
Feb 2012
15:55
Michael Dickinson
How a fly flies
Posted
Feb 2013
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