Yesterday you had 60 thousand subscribers, today you have 117 thousand. Your channel is growing like a population of herbivores in an endless field of vegetation.
That is not the stupid Gene! That is actually the smart gene. You don't learn something from simply watching a video. You either watch it 3+ times or watch it once while taking notes to learn new things.
Richard Dawkins himself has stated multiple times in interviews that the title choice of his famous bestseller was not really clever because it led many people to judge the work by the title alone and infer that Dawkins was supporting a nihilistic view of evolution. Actually, a big portion of the book deals with game theory and the evolutionary basis for altruism. Perhaps a better title would have been "The gene centered view of evolution". By the way, this hypotesis seems to have been finally vindicated by the discovery of transposable elements and parasitic DNA
By the way, congratulations for your work! The quality of the animation is over the top! I really liked the simulation approach, I hope to see sometimes in the future a video about Volterra-Lotka equations and prey-predator dynamics
Ever since I started watching your videos, I always thought that they could (and should!) be used in classrooms everywhere. To the point, illustrative, without sidetracking, curiosity-sparking and ELI5-compatible. Then, 5:30. "What a bunch of d****, right?" - Welp, sorry teachers. You're on your own again.
This is valuable feedback, thank you. In the future when I want to be silly/irreverent in these videos, I’ll try to do it in a way that doesn’t make it harder for teachers to use them.
You hit something that is very rare until know: video animations that cover topics away from maths, physics etc. The combination of coding such videos and topics from biology is very good. Looking forward to see many more videos.
Gonna say it now you are going to blow up in the next few weeks, watched only one video but your subjects, animation and educational value is awesome! Definetely subscribed, love these kind of channels When I first wrote this comment 5 days ago you had 34k subs, now when I’m editing this you have 234k subs! Guess I was right :D
I’m only a 10 year old and I could under stand this, he is real good at explaining, I don’t under stand some words but I do under stand what he’s talking about
I think your videos touch some very interesting topics. I like to take a look at dog genetics and how breeding has been affecting our dogs, not only on health, but mostly their behavior. And how dog breeds from different countries/continents have different traits even though they are same 'breed'. And basically the most important thing is to see the parenting genealogy and their main traits, etc. But their genes usually hit a certain amount of dead end because the breeding for looks get things complicated. Having a video about how the english bulldog genes are doomed, would be very interesting.
As someone with a (dated) background in evolutionary biology, I knew of Dawkins' ideas, but never went into the details of it, or even read his book. Your succinct summary here really puts things into perspective! I'm looking forward to hearing more!
This video does a very good job at explaining the main points of the book. I've read it a couple of times long ago and i remember it has a lot more topics but all are based around these ideas. Great book by a great biologist, however i don't share his ideas on religion, even though I'm an atheist as well.
i feel like all of this math and the thinking process in each video is so hopeful. i feel like Primer wants to see the world flourish. its been a while since ive seen intelligence used for something as positive as this. I hope this channel becomes widespread but doesnt lose that trait.
Dude... I love this guy, man, if you are reading this, I love the way you explain the most complicated concepts in a simple phrase that gives you the main idea Also, I think this kind of knowledge should be given to the a lot of people, so as someone who doesn't speak English as a native language, I think it would be a good idea to translate your content to other languages as Spanish or French, I am just saying hahah
When you mentioned that reciprocal altruism should, in theory, be beaten out by strategies that take advantage of it and offer nothing in return, I couldn't help but be reminded of some repeated prisoner's dilemma algorithm competitions, wherein the most successful were those that employed reciprocal altruism until cheated.
I love this deep dive into how all this stuff works! I tried simulating gene-level kin selection once (simply using the actual genetic overlap as a weight for the fitness function to accumulate the fitness of each individual as a weighted sum of the fitness of *all* the individua). The algorithm was unfortunately very slow and I bet I could have made it faster, but it worked quite nicely. Doing something like that for an open, continuous simulation where the creatures don't actually have access to the DNA would probably be more difficult. Perhaps you could, like, add a certain trait dependence into the Genome, wherein, say, a the relative distance between two creature's colors (although I'd go with more than three dimensions. That would be harder to actually visualize of course) can trigger behavior changes such as "stay close", "follow", "stay away", "feed", "eat", "fight", "mate", .... If actually visualizing the presence of specific markers isn't so important, one very easy way to go might be to have each of them have a random bit string as ID/part of their genome, and the overlap in bits is the proximal similarity. Would be interesting to see if anything special develops then, or that stuff gets completely ignored.
The 'iterated prisoner's dilemma' video from 'This place' is fantastic for understanding how mutually beneficial and even self hurting beneficial can thrive.
I wonder what it would be like to run a 10k years simulations with hundreds of species,preys and predators in an environment the size of madagascar lets say, and watch what happens
On a more serious note the creatures will have to either grow sentience/brains able to act out of instinct or the predators will be predators and kill all herbivores then die inevitably.
You can get 1 emerald for 1 pumpkin of iron, effective in making your backyard farm a way to get op enchanted books. That being said, setting the villagers up does make your point.
1:22 mutations on one-parent organism (and also on every other) can happen when one string of DNA is multiplying into other, but mistake happens, they are so often that for example human (and most other organisms) have system that "repairs" DNA when mutation happens, tho it dont always work.
Really fantastic channel, congrats! I am guessing your future videos will talk about kin selection and multi-level selection, I can't wait! If I may suggest a topic that blew my mind when I learned about it: *the evolution of sexual reproduction*. It is a great example of how selection does not always occur at the level of individuals, but sometimes (rarely) also at higher levels (group or species). If a mutation gives rise to a female able to reproduce asexually (aka parthenogenesis), then her reproductive advantage (x2, no need to create males) means that her offsprings will quickly outcompete all other members of the species. However, after a few thousand years, the species will eventually die out, lacking the necessary diversity to adapt to change (such as parasites). So although the mutation is beneficial in the short term and at the individual & group level, it turns out to be catastrophic in the long run, at the species level. Species that happen to have mechanisms that prevent parthenogenesis are more likely to survive. Mammals are pretty good at this apparently, since there is no known parthenogenetic mammal species. Again, wonderful job, looking forward to your next videos!
Brother Gregor Mendel. He was a scientist and Augustinian friar. He taught physics, established the Austrian Meteorological Society, and eventually became abbot of the St. Thomas Monastery in addition to his famous pea plant experiment. Very cool guy.
I learned nothing from this or the other couple of videos I've seen of yours... To be fair, I am a biologist who wrote my thesis in genetics. I'm mostly here because these videos are really well made and I'm contemplating if I can steal them for the class room if I get that teaching position I'm hoping for, as I doubt I can do a better job explaining this myself. Great work mate.
4:20 the cheating strategy doesn't work because the number of cheaters will increase over generation and will be left with few individuals that help others.
At 4.18, in crops this trait is sometimes selected for. Because for crops yield/area is important. If you select on the biggest plant of a group of plants again and again you end up with a crop that competes with itself so hard that yield decreases. If you instead keep on selecting the societies with the biggest yield you end up with bigger and bigger groups of plants. This explains that the "selfish" genes increase the chance of a population dying out compared to another.
4:20 that’s probably the reason Betrayal elicits such a bile filled response. I’d predict that in social species, where the risk of a moocher leeching off of everyone else is incredibly high, there would generally be a trend towards treating cheaters with much greater hostility than what would technically fit the individual act of betrayal
( sorry for m'y english) i read on a Book that the best trait IS - try too cooperate- - atack if he atack - - bé selfish with if hes selfish ext... just do thé same as the other individu you meet, but Always start with try too cooperate, and you sée this système IS the best for surviving in a environnement with Random trait
To the guy who made this. I like your clips your extremely good at explaining the process of evolution..not everything is about genes matey..alot of things are based on attidude which is has nothing to do with inherited genes but develop with life experience..selfishness and selfenes is one of those things...being selfish tends to bring immediate reward but we suffer for it later being selfless can at times bring reward later but not always..
These are such great videos. The simulations and slowly building each argument helps paint the concepts the American education system expects you to retain after being bombarded with. My only criticism would be to go a bit slower on the equations parts, and break down how each variable interacts with each other more.
A much easier way of understanding genes is as if you were a cell/protein and you had a piece of paper with instructions, and you followed the instructions the best you could. This basically covers all the explanations of genes with how they can effect each other (conflicting information/ different pages telling you to continue from a different one) can have multiples give the same trait (each is just a piece of an instruction you need to put together)
This should be used in classrooms everywhere would I have understood this without this video NOPE these Re very informative enjoyable videos keep up the good work! ❤❤❤
Hey, great series of videos! Definitely great material for teaching! I'm going to recommend your videos to my peers if they need to teach evolution, I think that it is a great step-by-step exploration of some of its principles and shows to the young biologists who hate math that it is actually useful to think in mathematical terms and they should not dismiss it (I swear, even simple math is sometimes hard for some of the undergraduate students I encounter) I'd like to ask you about something, though: You clearly insist in this video that the gene is the unit of selection. I understand why you do it for educational purposes here and I know that you know that there are other aspects to selection and that the "selfish" gene is only part of the story. I have focused on neuro-ethology these past years so I'm not studying selection so much anymore and I'm fuzzy on the details of the different sub-theories, but there is an argument for the individuals being the units of selection, isn't there? Genes never exist on their own, only in association with others, in viable "packages". As you say, there are interactions between genes so that the same gene might result in a different version of a trait (to keep it simple like in your video) when associated with a different set of other genes. PLUS, wether a gene has a positive impact on fitness depends on the environment it and its associated "package" is placed in (I know, I'm jumping ahead of this particular video...). We could say that wether a gene is replicated or not depends if the creature survives or not, so either the whole "package" survives in that specific combination, or none of those copies survive. Now since creatures actually don't replicate, but combine their genes in their offspring, this is not really true on the population level, but it means that the gene can't be the ONLY unit of selection. The "package"/creature is too to some extent. What I want to say, is that it seems to me like that notion of a single "unit" of selection is a pretty big oversimplification and that, in reality, the selection happens on multiple levels at once: the gene, the individual, the social network, etc... I was just wondering what your take on this is and I think a sort of overview video towards the end of your series to explain that it is not as simple and that there are multiple, sometimes conflicting, selective forces at play, might be a really good thing. Cheers!
In simpler terms (if you're a programmer) Genes are like lines of code to a script which is DNA I feel mildly proud for explaining something rather complex in just a single sentence using code and scripts as part of an analogy ...Analogies are powerful...
I have no clue why the narrator is talking about jeans in this video. But I like it.
Wth are selfish jeans
Amine Aboutalib I think that was meant to be a joke...
@@grunklestanlee2774 i know?
@@grunklestanlee2774 woosh...?
@@aitusai lol ?
Yesterday you had 60 thousand subscribers, today you have 117 thousand. Your channel is growing like a population of herbivores in an endless field of vegetation.
Limited ultimately by lifetime movement speed.
192,000
Can everyone update the number of subscribers when they see this comment please
He found a way to double his subscription chance
197,000
*"In the long term, competition is **_only_** between Jeans"*
levis is the superior race
@@pokvarenagljiva8745 We have to take back the Jean motherland taken from us by the Wrangler.
Jean stealers!
"In the long term, competition is only between Beans"
I like shorts. They're comfy and easy to wear.
This guy is going to get big, I’m calling it now
Nova ywete called it
well, the algorithm put him on my feed today. I think he's getting there
@Nova ywete what, and sacrifice speed? no way.
Hes getting there... he was in my recomended
Yeah def
I have the stupid Gene I had to watch this 3 times to understand this video
That is not the stupid Gene! That is actually the smart gene. You don't learn something from simply watching a video. You either watch it 3+ times or watch it once while taking notes to learn new things.
@@natevanderw humble gene op
@@natevanderw that's supportive gene right there
goes for you too :D
@@meganathan98 chutiya hai kya
Richard Dawkins himself has stated multiple times in interviews that the title choice of his famous bestseller was not really clever because it led many people to judge the work by the title alone and infer that Dawkins was supporting a nihilistic view of evolution.
Actually, a big portion of the book deals with game theory and the evolutionary basis for altruism.
Perhaps a better title would have been "The gene centered view of evolution".
By the way, this hypotesis seems to have been finally vindicated by the discovery of transposable elements and parasitic DNA
I have read the newest edition and remember that comment in the new foreword. For this video, though, I wanted to take advantage of the popular meme.
By the way, congratulations for your work!
The quality of the animation is over the top!
I really liked the simulation approach, I hope to see sometimes in the future a video about Volterra-Lotka equations and prey-predator dynamics
How about: "The selfish gene and the altruistic animal"?
I don't think his book would have gained such notoriety without the "in your face" title.
_The Selfish Gene_ is incredibly more catchy and attention provoking than _The Gene-Centered View of Evolution._ The former is a perfect title.
Ever since I started watching your videos, I always thought that they could (and should!) be used in classrooms everywhere. To the point, illustrative, without sidetracking, curiosity-sparking and ELI5-compatible.
Then, 5:30. "What a bunch of d****, right?"
- Welp, sorry teachers. You're on your own again.
Pffft, its worth the profanity!
Exactly what I was thinking. This video would be awesome for highschool biology classes.
Yeah, was wondering where that comment came from, doesn't fit the tone of the videos
This is valuable feedback, thank you. In the future when I want to be silly/irreverent in these videos, I’ll try to do it in a way that doesn’t make it harder for teachers to use them.
Good thing he doesn't depend on a college to explain, neither do we to learn, with profanity and all.
You hit something that is very rare until know: video animations that cover topics away from maths, physics etc. The combination of coding such videos and topics from biology is very good. Looking forward to see many more videos.
2:09 - 2:27 I know this is an old meme, but I gotta. “Well, that escalated quickly...”
And... And... And.... AND. AND. AND!!!!!!!!!!!!
Gonna say it now you are going to blow up in the next few weeks, watched only one video but your subjects, animation and educational value is awesome! Definetely subscribed, love these kind of channels
When I first wrote this comment 5 days ago you had 34k subs, now when I’m editing this you have 234k subs! Guess I was right :D
just wait till that algorithm boost slides in
@@barisdafuq3518 It already has!
I'm thinking the same.
Just found his channel, already binging
Run a simulation on RUclips's algorithm and its similarities and differences to natural selection.
2:10 I was about to go full opposition before you explained how complicated genetics and epigenetics actually are
𝘛𝘩𝘦𝘺 𝘩𝘢𝘥 𝘶𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘧𝘪𝘳𝘴𝘵 𝘩𝘢𝘭𝘧, 𝘯𝘰𝘵 𝘨𝘰𝘯𝘯𝘢 𝘭𝘪𝘦
nerrrd
@@PADARM no he got confused and could not say anything
Alleles?
@@PADARM What's wrong with being a nerd
Thanks to this video, instead of saying "that guy's a selfish bastard", I can now say "That bastard has carrier-focused genes".
Perfect
Modern problems demand modern solutions
Yes
3blue1brown of biology !!!
Exept the pi's are replaced by blobs ...
Srinath J J oh my god??? and it’s just as good
even sounds like him.
Secretly him.
YES!
I’m only a 10 year old and I could under stand this, he is real good at explaining, I don’t under stand some words but I do under stand what he’s talking about
That's awesome Nico! I think it's great that you are trying to learn so much!
I learned more about genes in this 5 minute video than an entire year in science class
I think your videos touch some very interesting topics. I like to take a look at dog genetics and how breeding has been affecting our dogs, not only on health, but mostly their behavior. And how dog breeds from different countries/continents have different traits even though they are same 'breed'. And basically the most important thing is to see the parenting genealogy and their main traits, etc.
But their genes usually hit a certain amount of dead end because the breeding for looks get things complicated.
Having a video about how the english bulldog genes are doomed, would be very interesting.
0:57 NO! Green blob. NO!!!
NO! Dont try, you dont gonna fly, your arms are too tiny. Your are not a bird!
Bad blob. Bad!
People say I can be what I want to be! *Flaps arms harder and faster*
@@PastyMancerI CAN BE MORE THAN BEING ITSELF! *ascends to goku or something, idk*
As someone with a (dated) background in evolutionary biology, I knew of Dawkins' ideas, but never went into the details of it, or even read his book. Your succinct summary here really puts things into perspective! I'm looking forward to hearing more!
This video does a very good job at explaining the main points of the book. I've read it a couple of times long ago and i remember it has a lot more topics but all are based around these ideas. Great book by a great biologist, however i don't share his ideas on religion, even though I'm an atheist as well.
Christmas came early this year! Nice video as always
You killed it... Again!
This channel gonna blow up for sure!
I can tell this channel is going to be a new favorite of mine. Great video!!
4:15 these blobs had NO business being so cute
i feel like all of this math and the thinking process in each video is so hopeful. i feel like Primer wants to see the world flourish. its been a while since ive seen intelligence used for something as positive as this. I hope this channel becomes widespread but doesnt lose that trait.
Dude... I love this guy, man, if you are reading this, I love the way you explain the most complicated concepts in a simple phrase that gives you the main idea
Also, I think this kind of knowledge should be given to the a lot of people, so as someone who doesn't speak English as a native language, I think it would be a good idea to translate your content to other languages as Spanish or French, I am just saying hahah
When you mentioned that reciprocal altruism should, in theory, be beaten out by strategies that take advantage of it and offer nothing in return, I couldn't help but be reminded of some repeated prisoner's dilemma algorithm competitions, wherein the most successful were those that employed reciprocal altruism until cheated.
exactly, in fact those were also mentioned in Dawkins' book.
I wish you were about when I was studying game theory in Uni!
It’s amazing how many benefits Evolutionary Biology can have for other fields!
Alright, I've just fallen in love with your content! Lovely animation!
YOU come into MY house and call my genes SELFISH!?
Yeah the NERVE
I love your philosophy of uploading rarely, but when uploading, uploading the greatest Videos I have ever seen. Keep up the good work!
Found this channel today. It's awesome
You guys are the best thing in the world. It's almost 5AM rn and I'm learning about the selfish gene. Wowza's
I love this deep dive into how all this stuff works!
I tried simulating gene-level kin selection once (simply using the actual genetic overlap as a weight for the fitness function to accumulate the fitness of each individual as a weighted sum of the fitness of *all* the individua). The algorithm was unfortunately very slow and I bet I could have made it faster, but it worked quite nicely.
Doing something like that for an open, continuous simulation where the creatures don't actually have access to the DNA would probably be more difficult. Perhaps you could, like, add a certain trait dependence into the Genome, wherein, say, a the relative distance between two creature's colors (although I'd go with more than three dimensions. That would be harder to actually visualize of course) can trigger behavior changes such as "stay close", "follow", "stay away", "feed", "eat", "fight", "mate", ....
If actually visualizing the presence of specific markers isn't so important, one very easy way to go might be to have each of them have a random bit string as ID/part of their genome, and the overlap in bits is the proximal similarity. Would be interesting to see if anything special develops then, or that stuff gets completely ignored.
I have a tech class based on simulations like yours! You’ve helped me passed my classes, thank you!
Dopamine increased to maximum level !
this nigga
The 'iterated prisoner's dilemma' video from 'This place' is fantastic for understanding how mutually beneficial and even self hurting beneficial can thrive.
I wonder what it would be like to run a 10k years simulations with hundreds of species,preys and predators in an environment the size of madagascar lets say, and watch what happens
At the end, the predators which survived the whole period will argue that the earth is flat.
On a more serious note the creatures will have to either grow sentience/brains able to act out of instinct or the predators will be predators and kill all herbivores then die inevitably.
@Ciccioforchetta 88 or you could just go to madagascar and see for yourself.
Mega Blob!
what if that's what we are in, a simulation watched by aliens
Congrats on a million subs! I love every video. Even knowing so much of this is such a nice refresher and reinforcement!
4:19
Trading with villagers in a nutshell
Not after 1.14
You can get 1 emerald for 1 pumpkin of iron, effective in making your backyard farm a way to get op enchanted books. That being said, setting the villagers up does make your point.
Oh my god I nearly spit out my drink when he said that at the end. I was so not expecting that
1:22 mutations on one-parent organism (and also on every other) can happen when one string of DNA is multiplying into other, but mistake happens, they are so often that for example human (and most other organisms) have system that "repairs" DNA when mutation happens, tho it dont always work.
Learned so much from this video and others in the series. The owl music from Zelda is such a nice touch.. he always taught me lots as a kid!
Great video, can't wait for the next one!
Please persevere with your channel... you’re going to be big! This channel is informative & concise
*I’m more invested in these animated blobs lives than my own*
hahahaha
I've read Dawkins selfish gene book I've studied even more on this subject yet still I can't resist watching this
The best explanation for genetics.
This is the most subbed to channel per video and views but it makes sense since you make exellent videos
Really fantastic channel, congrats! I am guessing your future videos will talk about kin selection and multi-level selection, I can't wait! If I may suggest a topic that blew my mind when I learned about it: *the evolution of sexual reproduction*. It is a great example of how selection does not always occur at the level of individuals, but sometimes (rarely) also at higher levels (group or species). If a mutation gives rise to a female able to reproduce asexually (aka parthenogenesis), then her reproductive advantage (x2, no need to create males) means that her offsprings will quickly outcompete all other members of the species. However, after a few thousand years, the species will eventually die out, lacking the necessary diversity to adapt to change (such as parasites). So although the mutation is beneficial in the short term and at the individual & group level, it turns out to be catastrophic in the long run, at the species level. Species that happen to have mechanisms that prevent parthenogenesis are more likely to survive. Mammals are pretty good at this apparently, since there is no known parthenogenetic mammal species.
Again, wonderful job, looking forward to your next videos!
This channel better blow up! Behave is on my reading list - I love Sapolsky's lectures!
1:41 Primer: What is a Gene?
Me: Jeans are a type of pants.
Brother Gregor Mendel. He was a scientist and Augustinian friar. He taught physics, established the Austrian Meteorological Society, and eventually became abbot of the St. Thomas Monastery in addition to his famous pea plant experiment. Very cool guy.
Just discovering this channel ; Excellent !! Stunning Videos !
Hope you'll keep going :-)
Congrats from a french in Indonesia ...
Just discovered your videos, watched through them all. Commenting to aid the algorithm
you need to upload more and this channel will blow up
Love this!!! I wish I had this through high school. I wish you would keep doing this
1:56 I laughed so hard I had to pause the video. Great work, keep it up!
He be looking a bit like John Lennon
I don't know how your vids popped up on my recommended vids - but I'm stoked that they did :D
Love these. Can't wait for more blobs.
That music is very fitting from 2:04 - 2:28.
Its so familiar, but I can't remember where it's from or what it's called!!
I'm an altruist and I've never related so much to this in my life.
@Stardust did you even watch the video? Because it clearly says altruism can be extremely beneficial sometimes...
@Stardust
You're an immature fool
As a biology uni student i find these videos so entertaining!! I also love the tiny blob creatures s o much 😭😭
Cute blobs :)
I learned nothing from this or the other couple of videos I've seen of yours...
To be fair, I am a biologist who wrote my thesis in genetics. I'm mostly here because these videos are really well made and I'm contemplating if I can steal them for the class room if I get that teaching position I'm hoping for, as I doubt I can do a better job explaining this myself.
Great work mate.
This channel looks really promising. I'm looking forward for the next episodes!
"Give peas a chance." roflcopter (perfect engagement easteregg.)
Pardon?
Dude your videos are hecking awesome!
4:20 the cheating strategy doesn't work because the number of cheaters will increase over generation and will be left with few individuals that help others.
I'm so happy to have found your channel, please keep it up!
No Billy gene joke ? Meh :(
This video is great, a very accurate and interactive simplifications of the book from dawkins, You guys should read it, its a masterpiece.
4:33 basically simping
id simp for blue blob
He just hit 1 mil subs
At 4.18, in crops this trait is sometimes selected for. Because for crops yield/area is important. If you select on the biggest plant of a group of plants again and again you end up with a crop that competes with itself so hard that yield decreases. If you instead keep on selecting the societies with the biggest yield you end up with bigger and bigger groups of plants. This explains that the "selfish" genes increase the chance of a population dying out compared to another.
you need more subs
These are great for learning many different related topics. Thanks!
Can anyone explain this? My mind is blown rn
Here before 1m subs, you’re so close!!!
Also your videos teach me more than 2 semesters in school
JEANS are the unit of natural selection
*Trousers*
Great as always! Thank you for making these videos!
What did the biologist say to the other biologist who didn't wear pants?
*get some genes*
ba dum tss
I really like this series. I hope a new one comes out soon!!
People actually believe "selfish gene" means "selfish individuals"?
4:20 that’s probably the reason Betrayal elicits such a bile filled response. I’d predict that in social species, where the risk of a moocher leeching off of everyone else is incredibly high, there would generally be a trend towards treating cheaters with much greater hostility than what would technically fit the individual act of betrayal
4:05 'passivism' or *pacifism*??
I was wondering the same thing.
these are nice and easy to digest. also the visuals are cute; the blob critters are adorable. :3 u got urself a sub!
This video is absolutely fucking excellent. Loved 'give peas a chance' especially :)
( sorry for m'y english) i read on a Book that the best trait IS - try too cooperate-
- atack if he atack -
- bé selfish with if hes selfish ext... just do thé same as the other individu you meet, but Always start with try too cooperate, and you sée this système IS the best for surviving in a environnement with Random trait
I just love when the blobs start waving they're so cuuuteee
Gosh that quote from Robert Dawkin is so true for me.
To the guy who made this. I like your clips your extremely good at explaining the process of evolution..not everything is about genes matey..alot of things are based on attidude which is has nothing to do with inherited genes but develop with life experience..selfishness and selfenes is one of those things...being selfish tends to bring immediate reward but we suffer for it later being selfless can at times bring reward later but not always..
I took anthropology last year, a subject completely unrelated to my major. But it’s still so interesting!
whats your major
These are such great videos. The simulations and slowly building each argument helps paint the concepts the American education system expects you to retain after being bombarded with. My only criticism would be to go a bit slower on the equations parts, and break down how each variable interacts with each other more.
I learned more from your channel than in a couple school years
The music is great.
These vids are gonna be so useful when I homeschool!
Looking forward to more complex simulations.
A much easier way of understanding genes is as if you were a cell/protein and you had a piece of paper with instructions, and you followed the instructions the best you could. This basically covers all the explanations of genes with how they can effect each other (conflicting information/ different pages telling you to continue from a different one) can have multiples give the same trait (each is just a piece of an instruction you need to put together)
This should be used in classrooms everywhere would I have understood this without this video NOPE these Re very informative enjoyable videos keep up the good work! ❤❤❤
Hey, great series of videos! Definitely great material for teaching! I'm going to recommend your videos to my peers if they need to teach evolution, I think that it is a great step-by-step exploration of some of its principles and shows to the young biologists who hate math that it is actually useful to think in mathematical terms and they should not dismiss it (I swear, even simple math is sometimes hard for some of the undergraduate students I encounter)
I'd like to ask you about something, though:
You clearly insist in this video that the gene is the unit of selection. I understand why you do it for educational purposes here and I know that you know that there are other aspects to selection and that the "selfish" gene is only part of the story. I have focused on neuro-ethology these past years so I'm not studying selection so much anymore and I'm fuzzy on the details of the different sub-theories, but there is an argument for the individuals being the units of selection, isn't there? Genes never exist on their own, only in association with others, in viable "packages". As you say, there are interactions between genes so that the same gene might result in a different version of a trait (to keep it simple like in your video) when associated with a different set of other genes. PLUS, wether a gene has a positive impact on fitness depends on the environment it and its associated "package" is placed in (I know, I'm jumping ahead of this particular video...). We could say that wether a gene is replicated or not depends if the creature survives or not, so either the whole "package" survives in that specific combination, or none of those copies survive. Now since creatures actually don't replicate, but combine their genes in their offspring, this is not really true on the population level, but it means that the gene can't be the ONLY unit of selection. The "package"/creature is too to some extent. What I want to say, is that it seems to me like that notion of a single "unit" of selection is a pretty big oversimplification and that, in reality, the selection happens on multiple levels at once: the gene, the individual, the social network, etc...
I was just wondering what your take on this is and I think a sort of overview video towards the end of your series to explain that it is not as simple and that there are multiple, sometimes conflicting, selective forces at play, might be a really good thing. Cheers!
Good thing is that your videos support night mode
In simpler terms (if you're a programmer)
Genes are like lines of code to a script which is DNA
I feel mildly proud for explaining something rather complex in just a single sentence using code and scripts as part of an analogy
...Analogies are powerful...
Also is this guy about to break the record of fastest growing channel on youtube?