Ideas about Evolution

Video playlists about Evolution

Theories of evolution

8 talks • 1h 39m

The enduring ideas, discoveries and observations that define and expand life as we know it.

The evolution of music

4 talks • 1h 7m

How did music transform into what it is today? A brief journey through time, sound and rhythm.

Get into your genes

6 talks • 1h 14m

Try on these talks about the traits that make you who you are.

Fascinating history

12 talks • 2h 53m

Be transported through the centuries with these talks for your inner (and outer) history buff.

Talks about Evolution

10:49

Carolyn Freiwald

The hidden history found in your teeth

Posted Feb 2021

12:51

Sarah Brosnan

Why monkeys (and humans) are wired for fairness

Posted Dec 2020

12:07

Menno Schilthuizen

How animals and plants are evolving in cities

Posted Aug 2020

15:27

Lara Durgavich

An evolutionary perspective on human health and disease

Posted Apr 2020

8:48

Lauren Sallan

A brief tour of the last 4 billion years (dinosaurs not included)

Posted Feb 2020

15:34

Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz

Your body was forged in the spectacular death of stars

Posted Dec 2019

16:09

Toby Kiers

Lessons from fungi on markets and economics

Posted Oct 2019

15:10

David Deutsch

After billions of years of monotony, the universe is waking up

Posted Oct 2019

9:30

Tara Djokic

This ancient rock is changing our theory on the origin of life

Posted Oct 2019

15:53

Ella Al-Shamahi

The fascinating (and dangerous) places scientists aren't exploring

Posted Jul 2019

14:42

Barbara J. King

Grief and love in the animal kingdom

Posted Jul 2019

13:06

Ryan Martin

Why we get mad — and why it's healthy

Posted Jun 2019

13:30

Roger Hanlon

The amazing brains and morphing skin of octopuses and other cephalopods

Posted May 2019

14:11

Lucy Cooke

Sloths! The strange life of the world's slowest mammal

Posted May 2019

11:23

Juliet Brophy

How a new species of ancestors is changing our theory of human evolution

Posted Mar 2019

5:41

Prosanta Chakrabarty

Four billion years of evolution in six minutes

Posted Jun 2018

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Exclusive articles about Evolution

Why does running give you a high? A look at the science

The runner’s high is often held up as a lure for reluctant exercisers, described in terms that can strain credulity. In 1855, Scottish philosopher Alexander Bain described the p...

Humans aren’t the only ones that help out their adult kids — here’s why animals do it too

Did you know that meerkats stay close to home, even as adults, so they can inherit territory when Mom dies? Or that North American red squirrel mothers gift real estate to their...

What can cavefish teach us about the world?

These weird-looking, isolated aquatic creatures probably won’t star in a Pixar film anytime soon, but by studying them, we can learn about our planet’s past and its future, says...