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The change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection.

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Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth

Evolutionary Development: Chicken Teeth Hank introduces us to the relatively new field of evolutionary developmental biology, which compares the developmental processes of different organisms to determine their ancestral relationship, and to discover how those processes evolved. Also fruit flies with eyes on their legs and chickens with teeth! User: IAmDeK May 22, 2012 8:31 AM

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Animal Development: We're Just Tubes

Animal Development: We're Just Tubes CrashCourse Biology #16: which lures you with pie, then goes anus to mouth... Hank discusses the process by which organisms grow and develop, maintaining that, in the end, we're all just tubes. User: IAmDeK May 15, 2012 4:39 AM

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Five Fingers of Evolution

Five Fingers of Evolution How can a "thumbs up" sign help us remember five processes that impact evolution? The story of the Five Fingers of Evolution gives us a clever way of understanding change in gene pools over time. Lesson by Paul Andersen, animation by Alan Foreman (http://www.alanforemananimation.com) View the full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/five-fingers-of-evolution User: runarounddead May 9, 2012 9:18 PM

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Speciation: Of Ligers & Men

Speciation: Of Ligers & Men CrashCourse Biology #15 Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. User: IAmDeK May 8, 2012 12:46 AM

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CrashCourse: Natural Selection

CrashCourse: Natural Selection Biology #14: Hank guides us through the process of natural selection, the key mechanism of evolution. User: IAmDeK May 1, 2012 8:21 AM

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Pilot: Evolution

Pilot: Evolution The history of life condensed in a 90 second viral for a pen. From Boolab. User: IAmDeK Apr 30, 2012 12:13 PM

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Hate E-Mails With Richard Dawkins

Hate E-Mails With Richard Dawkins Richard Dawkins reads some of his hate mail. An excerpt from the video entitled "Richard Dawkins Answers Reddit Questions," which can be found on from the RichardDawkinsDotNet channel. ? http://www.youtube.com/user/richarddawkinsdotnet#p/u/6/vueDC69jRjE There is a link to this video on PZ Myers' Pharyngula blog: ? http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/11/episode_cxxxii_the_hate_mail_t.php And Stephen Fry seems to have retweeted this: ? http://twitter.com/StephenFry Also referred to on Jerry Coyne's blog, "Why Evolution Is True": ? https://whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/whos-more-hateful-atheists-or-goddies/ There is a copy of this video on Dumpert.nl: ? http://www.dumpert.nl/mediabase/1211601/3ad39201/hate_mails_with_richard_dawkins.html User: RabidMadness Apr 29, 2012 4:39 AM

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Hovind and Hadfield Come Together

Hovind and Hadfield Come Together (Not Like That!) I'm currently on assignment, and this video was made before I left Australia. Sorry, sources will have to wait until I get back home in a few weeks. User: spam_vigilante Apr 27, 2012 3:49 AM

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How Did We Get Here ? (BBC Documentary)

How Did We Get Here ? (BBC Documentary) Broadcast (2010) The question of our human origins is one of the most controversial science has wrestled with. This is the story of how scientists came to explain the beauty and diversity of life on earth, and reveal how its evolution is connected to the long and violent history of our planet. Featuring ocean adventurers, eccentric French aristocrats, mountain climbers, a secret Victorian publisher with 12 fingers, a ridiculed German meteorologist, and only a brief hint of Charles Darwin. User: spam_vigilante Apr 25, 2012 12:14 PM

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What Darwin Never Knew

What Darwin Never Knew Earth teems with a staggering variety of animals, including 9,000 kinds of birds, 28,000 types of fish and more than 350,000 species of beetles. What explains this explosion of living creatures, 1.4 million different species discovered so far, with perhaps another 50 million to go? The source of life's endless forms was a mystery until Charles Darwin's revolutionary idea of natural selection, which he showed could help explain the gradual development of life on Earth. But Darwin's radical insights raised as many questions as they answered. What actually drives evolution and turns one species into another? And how did we evolve? NOVA reveals answers to the riddles that Darwin couldn't explain. Breakthroughs in a brand new science nicknamed "evo devo" are linking the enigma of origins to another of nature's great mysteries, the development of an embryo. NOVA takes viewers on a journey from the Galapagos Islands to the Arctic and from the Cambrian explosion of animal forms half a billion years ago to the research labs of today. Here scientists are finally beginning to crack nature's biggest secrets at the genetic level. And, as "NOVA" shows, the results are confirming the brilliance of Darwin's insights while exposing clues to life's breathtaking diversity. User: Pantufas Apr 24, 2012 5:52 AM

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TEDTalks: Evolution In A Big City

TEDTalks: Evolution In A Big City Using newts, coyotes and mice, Jason Munshi-South shows how animals develop genetic differences in evolution, even within an urban city. (Launching a series on Awesome Nature) "Evolution in a Big City" was animated by the TED-Ed Animation Team (Jeremiah Dickey, Biljana Labovic, Celeste Lai, Kari Mulholland and Franz Palomares) User: RabidMadness Mar 19, 2012 5:44 AM

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Ted Talks: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence

Ted Talks: Jonathan Haidt: Religion, Evolution, and the Ecstasy of Self-Transcendence Psychologist Jonathan Haidt asks a simple, but difficult question: why do we search for self-transcendence? Why do we attempt to lose ourselves? In a tour through the science of evolution by group selection, he proposes a provocative answer. Mar 14, 2012 11:04 AM

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Today in History for Tuesday March 13

Today in History for Tuesday March 13 On this day in history: Uncle Sam cartoon debuts; Teaching of evolution outlawed in Tennessee; Deadly rampage at Scottish elementary school; Brigadoon opens on Broadway. (March 13) Mar 13, 2012 2:02 AM

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Golden Crocoduck nominees 2012 (Pt 1)

Golden Crocoduck nominees 2012 (Pt 1) Here are three nominees for the 2012 coveted Golden Crocoduck. Please don't ask how you can vote -- voting begins in October and details will be announced in a video at that time. All three videos shown here can be found in the nominees' playlist on my channel. 2:45 Fake skeletons shown at http://michaelsheiser.com/PaleoBabble/2010/02/giant-paleobabble/ 2:55 Fake skeleton from Worth 1000 3:08 Hindu Voice story from http://karsewak.blogspot.com.au/2007/03/bhimas-son-gadhotkach-like-skeleton.html 3:29 "Skeleton of Giant is Internet Hoax" - National Geographic, Dec 14 2007. 3:41 Worth1000 competition entry http://fx.worth1000.com/entries/18533/giants 4:39 http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/giants.htm 5:05 "Fossilized" giant described at http://www.archive.org/stream/cu31924092530546/cu31924092530546_djvu.txt 8:06 onwards -- "Type V Collagen Controls the Initiation of Collagen Fibril Assembly* Richard J. Wenstrup et al., Aug 2004 "Collagen fibril formation" Karl E. Kadler 1996 "Collagen fibril morphology and organization: Implications for force transmission in ligament and tendon" Paolo P. Provenzano 2005 "Extracellular Compartments in Tendon Morphogenesis: Collagen Fibril, Bundle, and Macroaggregate Formation" David E. Birk et al 1986 Clip of Jenna Bus from "Jenna Bush - Predator 2" on YouTube For those not familiar with cockney rhyming slang: Frog and toad = road Jimmy riddle = piddle (urination) Adam and Eve = believe Porky pie = lie User: spam_vigilante Mar 12, 2012 12:46 PM

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Hitchens: The True Core of the Jesus Myth

Hitchens: The True Core of the Jesus Myth Science & Reason on Facebook: http://tinyurl.com/ScienceReason The True Core Of The Jesus Myth - Christopher Hitchens @ FreedomFest (Part 1). User: spam_vigilante Feb 19, 2012 4:28 AM

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Crocoduck

Crocoduck Kirk Cameron, speaking at a debate on the existence of God at Calvary Baptist Church in Manhattan, May 5, 2007, cited the lack of a crocoduck as evidence against evolution.

Potholer54

Potholer54 Freelance print, radio, and television journalist Peter Hadfield, author of the YouTube "Made Easy" introductory science education series, annually awards the Golden Crocoduck to the most spectacular breach of the ninth commandment by a Creationist.

Charles Darwin

Charles Darwin An English naturalist who proposed and provided scientific evidence that all species of life have evolved over time from one or a few common ancestors through the process of natural selection.

Napoleon Dynamite

Napoleon Dynamite A 2004 independent film co-written and directed by Jared Hess and Jerusha Hess and stars Jon Heder as the title character. The film was Jared Hess's first full-length feature and is partially adapted from his earlier short film, Peluca.

Associated Press

Associated Press An American news cooperative owned by its contributing newspapers, radio and television stations, which both contribute stories to the AP and use material written by its staff journalists.

Devo

Devo An American New Wave group formed in Akron, Ohio in 1972. Devo's music mingle kitsch science fiction themes, deadpan surrealist humor, mordantly satirical social commentary, and unusual synthetic instrumentation and time signatures.

NOVA

NOVA A popular science television series from the USA produced by WGBH Boston. It can be seen on the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States, and in more than 100 other countries.

The F Word

The F Word As a transitive verb, it refers to the act of sexual intercourse. By extension it may be used to negatively characterize anything that can be dismissed, disdained, defiled, or destroyed. It is most frequently used as a mere intensifier.

Christopher Hitchens

Christopher Hitchens A British-American author, journalist and literary critic. He is known for his iconoclasm, atheism, antitheism and anti-monarchism.

Dinosaurs

Dinosaurs Vertebrate animals that dominated terrestrial ecosystems for over 160 million years, first appearing approximately 230 million years ago. At the end of the Cretaceous Period, 65 million years ago, a catastrophic extinction event ended their dominance.

Richard Dawkins

Richard Dawkins A British ethologist, evolutionary biologist, and popular science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for the Public Understanding of Science at Oxford University.

Monkeys and Primates

Monkeys and Primates Any member of the biological order Primates, the group that contains all the species commonly related to the lemurs, monkeys, and apes, with the latter category including humans (though not in the context of MilkandCookies).

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Jesus A teacher and prophet whose life and teachings form the basis of Christianity.

TEDTalks

TEDTalks An annual conference held in Monterey, California and semi-annually in other cities around the world. TED describes itself as a "group of remarkable people that gather to exchange ideas of incalculable value".

Dogs and Puppies

Dogs and Puppies A domestic subspecies of the wolf, a mammal of the Canidae family of the order Carnivora. The domestic dog has been and continues to be one of the most widely-kept working and companion animals in human history.

Australia

Australia A country in the southern hemisphere comprising the mainland of the world's smallest continent, the major island of Tasmania, and numerous other islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Evolution

Evolution The change in the inherited traits of a population of organisms from one generation to the next. These changes are caused by a combination of three main processes: variation, reproduction, and selection.

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BBC The British Broadcasting Corporation, which is usually known simply as the BBC, is the world's largest broadcasting corporation.

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New York The most populous city in the United States, and the state it is a part of.

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Cults and Religions A set of beliefs and practices generally held by a community, involving adherence to codified beliefs and rituals and study of ancestral or cultural traditions, writings, history, and mythology, as well as personal faith and mystic experience.

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Science A body of techniques for investigating phenomena and acquiring new knowledge -- as well as for correcting and integrating previous knowledge -- based on gathering observable, empirical, measurable evidence, subject to specific principles of reasoning.

Animals

Animals Multicellular organisms with typical characteristics such as capacity for locomotion, nonphotosynthetic metabolism, pronounced response to stimuli, restricted growth, and fixed bodily structures.

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News Current events, present-time news events concerning important people, places, things, and ideas.

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Music An art form consisting of sound and silence expressed through time. Elements of sound as used in music are pitch (including melody and harmony), rhythm (including tempo and meter), and sonic qualities of timbre, articulation, dynamics, and texture.

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Celebrities Widely-recognized or famous people who command a high degree of public and media attention.

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Humor

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Television Audiovisual media, including television, is the second most effective means of communication available to the psychological operator. These media are an excellent means of transmitting persuasive messages and eliciting a high degree of recall. -- US Army

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Video Clips The technology of electronically capturing, recording, processing, storing, transmitting, and reconstructing a sequence of still images representing scenes in motion.

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