How Two Microbes Changed History

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    What if I told you that, more than two billion years ago, some tiny living thing started to live inside another living thing … and never left? And now, the descendants of both of those things are in you?
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  • @Napsteraspx
    @Napsteraspx 6 лет назад +548

    I needed a video this clear on the subject back in middle school. lol

    • @nishbrown
      @nishbrown 6 лет назад +14

      I would have settled for the internet, at all.
      I find it hard to believe that any student these days, could not learn.
      All of the information is a million times more accessible than it was 25+ years ago.

    • @NonDelusional74611
      @NonDelusional74611 6 лет назад +9

      Silly student. That’s not what school is for.

    • @sMASHsound
      @sMASHsound 5 лет назад +4

      Most of us did, man.

    • @sMASHsound
      @sMASHsound 5 лет назад

      Most of us did, man.

    • @LisaBeergutHolst
      @LisaBeergutHolst 4 года назад +10

      @@NonDelusional74611 Exactly. School is where we all get assigned our places in the social hierarchy. Any learning of subject matter is incidental and most often quickly forgotten.

  • @KenKopin
    @KenKopin 6 лет назад +642

    The Answer was inside us, all along.

  • @jivejunior8753
    @jivejunior8753 6 лет назад +375

    I would be very pleased if you did an episode on the evolution of insect flight. Basically every explanation I've heard so far is: "Once upon a time, some insects popped onto land and grew wings. The end." But this channel is such a high-quality gem, so I thought y'all could make it clear for all of us! Thanks!

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 6 лет назад +27

      From what I've heard, beetles first developed outer shells that would open and shut, either to make noise for mating purposes or to allow them to mate without having an exposed soft body, and a membrane between the two halves eventually developed into a wing. For other insects, I'm not really sure.

    • @Dragrath1
      @Dragrath1 6 лет назад +21

      Beetles and their relatives the other metamorphic insects only appeared very late in the earths history during the Mesozoic era. Flight itself evolved much much earlier (by at least the Devonian according to what Iv'e read) and those fossils are quite complex and specialized indicating they may have appeared quite a bit earlier. It was only after the Great dying, the only mass extinction to severely affect insects that the metamorphic insects were able to spread and diversify into the familiar forms like beetles wasps bees and butterflies which seem to have coevolved with the flowering plants.

    • @greensteve9307
      @greensteve9307 6 лет назад +2

      Ditto!

    • @harrisonvc9175
      @harrisonvc9175 5 лет назад +4

      They did

    • @kitkat2976
      @kitkat2976 4 года назад +1

      Jive Junior dd

  • @yharles
    @yharles 6 лет назад +181

    I just finished reading The Story of Earth: The First 4.5 Billion Years that you recommended on the livestream, thank you it was such a great book!

    • @Linkous12
      @Linkous12 6 лет назад +9

      Richard Dawkins' The Ancestor's Tale is really good too.

    • @magnuspeacock5857
      @magnuspeacock5857 5 лет назад +4

      And Unweaving the rainbow by Dawkins

    • @fahimaalfarabi1646
      @fahimaalfarabi1646 2 года назад

      Was looking for a book like this. Thanks for mentioning!

  • @99bits46
    @99bits46 6 лет назад +452

    So if our ancestor cell had sucked in chloroplasts, we would we some badass solar panels today.
    such a shame

    • @Suzaku455
      @Suzaku455 6 лет назад +44

      Salman Memehood if sea slug has told us anything it's not too late
      en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elysia_chlorotica

    • @L._.A-06
      @L._.A-06 6 лет назад +34

      Not really it is really inefficient to be “solar panels” plants grow slow because sun barely gives them enough energy to grow

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 5 лет назад +51

      Salman Memehood Except movements would make the "solar panel" inneficient, therefore we would have evolved into... Well, plants

    • @dundee6402
      @dundee6402 5 лет назад +10

      Salman Memehood Also it sounds like an extremely bad idea where you would have to spend half your day at sun because otherwise you wouldn't get enough energy. Let alone at night and overcast days where you would be extremely sluggish because our fast metabolisms need a huge ammount energy

    • @avinashsethu2499
      @avinashsethu2499 5 лет назад +2

      But we didn't able to move

  • @asiburger
    @asiburger 6 лет назад +15

    I remember learning this in Biology classes. It was awfully unstructured and carried little to no explanation on how things got together, what the differences are broken down to a simple level and just without alot of info around it.
    This right here should be mandatory footage for any school, since it is so comprehensive and easy to actually UNDERSTAND, rather than just learn a set ammount of random facts, without giving their meaning in the big picture. It was just so distant from any relationship with real life.

  • @takeakiuemura3614
    @takeakiuemura3614 6 лет назад +34

    My brain can't comprehend this concept because it's so significant

    • @tomokinariyuki185
      @tomokinariyuki185 5 лет назад

      安保徹も面白いですよ

    • @plant5875
      @plant5875 4 года назад +5

      cell exist mitochondria exist
      cell eat mitochondria
      mitochondrion produce energy
      cell is happy

  • @KarlBunker
    @KarlBunker 6 лет назад +132

    Wow; there's no giant stompin' dinosaurs in this episode, but the story it tells is amazing and awesome.

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 5 лет назад +3

      But there was a dinosaur in it.

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 2 года назад +1

      Actually there is - they're the descendants of this symbiosis just as we are.

    • @VOMITQUEEN
      @VOMITQUEEN Год назад +1

      Tbh I think that dinosaurs are overrated sometimes, I feel like the earlier of prehistoric eons tend to be much more fascinating. At least to me! We all know about dinosaurs, but I personally want to learn about much more ancient type of creatures and how they came about instead.

  • @thexalon
    @thexalon 3 года назад +8

    I got to hear a guest lecture by Lynn Margulis at my alma mater in the early 2000's. She was brilliant and extremely clear about explaining all of this to an audience of mostly non-biologists.

  • @binky2819
    @binky2819 6 лет назад +667

    Sometimes I wonder if life is actually common in the universe, but it's just too rare for something like these 2 microbes fusing to happen. What if there's bacterial life all over the universe? Or maybe complex life is also common, but it's also all too rare for it to become intelligent. A lot of very specific things over a long period of time had to happen here on Earth in order for a group of tetrapods to become a self aware, planet dominating species (us). And a lot more specific things had to happen for tetrapods to even evolve in the first place.

    • @ariochiv
      @ariochiv 6 лет назад +152

      Considering that microbes existed on Earth for some 4 billion years, and more complex life only arouse a little more than 500 million years ago, and intelligence only arose a few million years ago, it seems reasonable to infer that even if microbial life is common throughout the universe, complex life and especially intelligent life are much more rare.

    • @rewer
      @rewer 6 лет назад +62

      I believe alien life that we discover would be in form of bacteria or virus

    • @VVabsa
      @VVabsa 6 лет назад +64

      binky2819 the universe itself is alot older than our solar system and planets. Life might more common than you think, but intelligent? When we look at the stars millions of lightyears away, we're looking too early at them or way too late to see them. I mean, the light we see from those galaxies shined propably a few million of not billion years ago.

    • @juzoli
      @juzoli 6 лет назад +74

      binky2819 This fusion has happened 3+ times just on the Earth alone. It doesn’t seem like a bottleneck towards complex life.

    • @mikeo759
      @mikeo759 6 лет назад +48

      In a numbers game, it's "great filters" like these that lead me to believe that multi-solar system species do not exist in our galaxy, but may still exist in the universe. Most likely not within our reach to interact with.

  • @moldytaters4190
    @moldytaters4190 6 лет назад +583

    I've learned more from one video on this channel than I have learned in school in 12 years.

    • @FelipeKana1
      @FelipeKana1 6 лет назад +19

      Kason Zechiel sorry to say, but most school kids I teach for wouldn't understand this video at all

    • @moldytaters4190
      @moldytaters4190 6 лет назад +3

      Captain Raz Well dang.

    • @cadenrolland5250
      @cadenrolland5250 6 лет назад +21

      Schools are not primarily concerned with teaching. If they were the boards of education, the Central Offices, and the whole educations system would be formed and run by teachers. Instead these powerful positions that actually call the shots go to bureaucrats, politicians, and business leaders, who then tell teachers what, when, and to a greater and greater degree, how to teach. Teaching a very nuanced sacred scientific art that is pretty much ruined by bureaucrats, politicians, and business leaders. If you learned the basics well, you need to consider yourself lucky.

    • @officialsuperficial626
      @officialsuperficial626 6 лет назад +5

      I learned this material my 14th year of school in Physiology. You probably will to, kinda spoils some fun science videos though :/
      The info you learn is fascinating af

    • @moldytaters4190
      @moldytaters4190 6 лет назад +1

      Ben Jay I love the basics, I was in advanced Science and Math 6th-12th grade. I only struggled with English. My school system is screwed up, because the way the teachers are allowed to teach just doesn't help the students.

  • @sakshi2471997
    @sakshi2471997 6 лет назад +28

    This is one of my most favourite stories of evolution. Absolutely love it!

  • @bevobexley4087
    @bevobexley4087 6 лет назад +40

    I love the awareness of the current internets, "as you may know from the internet, the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell" lol!

    • @cinquine1
      @cinquine1 6 лет назад +1

      You could have just said you don't like memes...

  • @patricksarama4963
    @patricksarama4963 3 года назад +6

    *meanwhile 2 billion years ago while 2 cells were replicating...*
    Cell 1: “see you later alligator”
    Cell 2: “In a while crocodile”
    *2 billion years later...*
    Crocodile: “I told you we’d see each other again”
    Alligator: “Nice”

  • @Neontronique
    @Neontronique 6 лет назад +151

    This was another amazing watch. This is the video I would loved to have watched at school, rather than the crap I had to watch.

    • @Psalm1101
      @Psalm1101 4 года назад

      We cant make life in the lab what is the mechanism for this transfer and how symbioss is the answer we dont know to say this happened or this probably happened because this is what we have know is not s iemce protolife has not beenmade in the lab with computers bringing thelipids carbhydrates fatty acids in the lab has not been done not even proteins watch james tour

    • @robertpryor7225
      @robertpryor7225 3 года назад

      I had to watch books, which are very boring

  • @ovicephalus5938
    @ovicephalus5938 6 лет назад +21

    Suggestions:
    Discussing relationships of major dinosaur groups? (Still controversial)
    How are arthropods and similar creatures related to other organisms and their superficial convergence with chordates? (Honestly kind of disturbing)
    Evolution of theromregualtion in synapsids?
    Evolution of thermoregulation in archosaurs?
    How plants fungi and animals are related and possible transitional forms? (I don't know if there are any)
    How sexual reproduction appeared?
    The confusing beaks we see all over the place in maniraptorans and ornithomimids?

  • @keerthichandra376
    @keerthichandra376 4 года назад +19

    Nothing short of a gripping adventure thriller this one, kudos to the eontologists, the research team, the writing and production team and the presenter. You guys put together fantastic shorts about the ever so huge history of our beautiful planet. Always eager to see what you guys present next!

  • @jayce7646
    @jayce7646 6 лет назад +9

    I knew what this was about, I had no idea the amount of depth she would go into. You’ve *earned* this thumbs up.

  • @joeys4289
    @joeys4289 6 лет назад +179

    Finally a new video, FINALLY. I'd like to add that this is by far my favorite youtube channel, ever. I would watch this channel 24/7 and would choose it to be the only channel I would watch if given an ultimatum by aliens. Basically you guys rock ok. Now onto watching the video lol.

    • @dipakyadav7473
      @dipakyadav7473 6 лет назад +4

      Agreed! And this is my favorite video of this channel.

    • @TheIncredibleJumpman
      @TheIncredibleJumpman 6 лет назад +3

      If you like this channel, you should check out the channel "Isaac Arthur". He's more focused on space themes but everything he talks about is very enlightening/interesting.

    • @KingSquidicus
      @KingSquidicus 6 лет назад +3

      Have you tried watching SciShow? That's another really great channel(s) (technically there are three. SciShow, SciShow Space, and SciShow Psych)

    • @thefirstsin
      @thefirstsin 2 года назад +1

      True

  • @4675636b596f755954
    @4675636b596f755954 6 лет назад +16

    PBS Eons makes me wish I could 'like' whole channels.

  • @sriramthodla3104
    @sriramthodla3104 6 лет назад +16

    PBS Eons is amazing - very addictive even for a 40-year-old lifelong learner. She is especially good.

  • @rafaelalodio5116
    @rafaelalodio5116 6 лет назад +7

    PBS Eons is one of my favorites chanels on RUclips, because you always make great content.

  • @leptyga
    @leptyga 6 лет назад +38

    Off topic: you guys have the best music of any edu-tube I know of. Who is responsible for this beautiful background?

    • @wyllomygreene7700
      @wyllomygreene7700 6 лет назад +3

      David Christensen The credits list APM under the heading 'Music' - and there is a RUclips channel called APM Music. Haven't time to delve myself tho

    • @thomtimm5537
      @thomtimm5537 6 лет назад +4

      I disagree. The music in this video just annoys me. I don't know why but it distracts me from the content. Maybe it is just too loud.

    • @a.modestproposal2038
      @a.modestproposal2038 5 лет назад +1

      It has a teasing “surprise” backbeat that poisons focus on the speaker. What sadist engineered the audio for this segment? Unwatchable.

  • @azrielmoha6877
    @azrielmoha6877 6 лет назад +17

    I just finished a biology exam with this very subject. Should've watched this video first

  • @rebelbeammasterx8472
    @rebelbeammasterx8472 6 лет назад +4

    Woah, green algae is like a "metaeukaryote." A cell within a cell within a cell, or a cell turducken, I guess you could call it "Perfect Cell."

  • @doubleirishdutchsandwich4740
    @doubleirishdutchsandwich4740 6 лет назад +3

    This is one of the best videos I have seen. You provide background information, then explain the idea, then you explain the empirical evidence for the idea. Beautiful

  • @idadelucia7779
    @idadelucia7779 4 года назад +2

    I'm in my 40s and these videos are more interesting than what I saw at school in the 80s.

  • @kevincable4099
    @kevincable4099 6 лет назад +28

    Very thorough and well done video! Can't wait to share with my HS biology students since we have discussed this recently.

    • @curiousfirely
      @curiousfirely 6 лет назад +2

      Kevin Cable I was thinking the same thing!

    • @Immorpher
      @Immorpher 6 лет назад +1

      Kudos for keeping the passion alive!

  • @ArturoStojanoff
    @ArturoStojanoff 6 лет назад +10

    Damn, I love this woman's voice. It's just so relaxing, it makes understanding stuff easier.

  • @sent4dc
    @sent4dc 6 лет назад +30

    Wow, you guys are my favorite channel. I knew that mitochondria was a "swallowed up" procaryote, but I didn't realize that it could've happened 3 times in the evolutionary history. Wow!

  • @julioequinones
    @julioequinones 6 лет назад +29

    This was a fantastic awesome super cool tremendous brilliant video!!!

  • @martijnbouman8874
    @martijnbouman8874 6 лет назад +2

    A small correction: the eukariotic cell did not originate from a small bacteria living inside a larger bacteria, but from a bacteria living inside an Archea cell. Bacteria and Archea are both classified as prokaryotes, but are completely differently build.

  • @KOTEBANAROT
    @KOTEBANAROT 6 лет назад +4

    im just... in absolute awe that we are here. WE are here. thinking, feeling, asking questions. this is unbelievable.

  • @philippe2072
    @philippe2072 6 лет назад +44

    Could you do an episode on Terror birds or azhdarchidae ? It would be interesting, these subjects are missing on yt

    • @eons
      @eons  6 лет назад +15

      Be sure to check back next week, Philippe! (BdeP)

    • @liliaaaaaaaa
      @liliaaaaaaaa 3 года назад +1

      Azdarchidae and the pterosaurs are my favourite birds. ✌

  • @phil0rms
    @phil0rms 6 лет назад +1

    This video was particularly great.
    Thanks for your work, PBS Eons.

  • @jiaqiniu2872
    @jiaqiniu2872 Год назад +1

    Her voice is so soothing. She's my favorite narrator

  • @lylecosmopolite
    @lylecosmopolite 3 года назад +4

    Carl Woese, who discovered archae, was one of the greatest biologists of all time.

  • @GenghisVern
    @GenghisVern 6 лет назад +50

    this was a very useful summary, thank you

  • @Bifocal_Burrito
    @Bifocal_Burrito 6 лет назад +2

    Only found this channel a day ago, already enjoying all the videos.
    Great stuff keep it up!

  • @endofcentury7077
    @endofcentury7077 3 года назад +2

    "Can you hear it? Your mitochondria are calling out to you!"

  • @alysaronda9372
    @alysaronda9372 6 лет назад +4

    Woohoo! Super interesting video. Thanks for keeping the content coming!

  • @omarmartinezolvera8405
    @omarmartinezolvera8405 5 лет назад +4

    this kind of videos always make me wanna cry lol everything is so simple, yet so amazing and perfect. Apparently "random" things that happened and changed the course of everything, it's just, how? why? and I just get flooded with existential questions until I click on the next video and I forget about it lol

  • @mXrtin100
    @mXrtin100 6 лет назад +2

    I love this channel ❤ makes all those tedious biology lectures back in school relatable

  • @thetool96
    @thetool96 4 года назад +1

    These videos on ancient life are simply awesome. Definitely Eons is my favorite channel.

  • @feynstein1004
    @feynstein1004 6 лет назад +3

    I find it fascinating that the first eukaryotic cells gained enough of an advantage over prokaryotes that they managed to survive to date but not enough to drive the prokaryotes to extinction.

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 6 лет назад +3

      Want another fascinating thought? We consider ourselves top dog, but there are more bacteria in your gut then there are humans on the entire planet. We are basically walking bacteria cities! And when you get sick, that's the city being invaded, and when you get better, that's them winning the bacterial war!

    • @KeegoonBarnacle
      @KeegoonBarnacle 6 лет назад

      Throttle Kitty But they don't have the gift of consciousness.

    • @modolief
      @modolief 6 лет назад +1

      And ... the prokaryotic (bacterial) cells in your gut outnumber the eukaryotic (human DNA carrying) cells in your body *ten to one*

    • @feynstein1004
      @feynstein1004 6 лет назад

      +Throttle Kitty That doesn't seem very fascinating tbh

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 6 лет назад

      Consciousness could be considered a curse as much as a gift.

  • @renocence
    @renocence 6 лет назад +13

    Life can be so badass; sometimes.

  • @MrDlinch
    @MrDlinch 6 лет назад +1

    This is so beautiful, thank you for helping to understand connection between all living things.

  • @ChipZilla69
    @ChipZilla69 5 лет назад +1

    Longer videos please. Thumbs up

  • @catherine_404
    @catherine_404 6 лет назад +4

    It's not like I didn't know most of this information, still, it's a great pleasure to see it all so neatly packed.

  • @GaryStark
    @GaryStark 6 лет назад +5

    What an incredible story!

  • @fberron
    @fberron 3 года назад +1

    Lynn Margulis and Carl Woes are my héroes. Excellent video

  • @viral_suppressor4154
    @viral_suppressor4154 2 года назад +1

    "You are also more physically complex than a procaryote, I mean, I haven't met you but I assume you are..."
    Her level of sass is over 9000...
    lol

  • @christopheb9221
    @christopheb9221 6 лет назад +6

    This makes me wonder if genetic editing of mitochondria could benefit us

  • @briandang6766
    @briandang6766 6 лет назад +12

    This is some deep stuff

  • @tehguitarque
    @tehguitarque 6 лет назад +1

    I always loved learning about this theory in basic biology classes and beyond. Yet it was still fun to learn about it again here, and with some extra details and nice visuals!

  • @itchylove756
    @itchylove756 5 лет назад +1

    Gosh, you're contagious, once I started watching you vids, I got stuck watching more and more. But that's good. Thanks.

  • @FalbertForester
    @FalbertForester 6 лет назад +7

    Thank you for including references - something most videos overlook.

  • @Prelude610
    @Prelude610 6 лет назад +10

    Question for another episode - how is knowledge, instinctive behavior type knowledge, passed along from generation to generation? Genetics sounds fine for the inheritance of structural characteristics, but does it also account for behavioral characteristics?

    • @ThrottleKitty
      @ThrottleKitty 6 лет назад +1

      In short, yes, probably. We think so? There is evidence traumatic events can actually affect your DNA, and stress disorders can even be passed from mothers to children. We aren't 100% sure how it works, but DNA seems to store "The expectation of particular events" somehow. I wish I could tell you more.

    • @Prelude610
      @Prelude610 6 лет назад

      Thanks. I've heard versions of that, like how two generations after a starvation period offspring have a greater chance of being obese. I could definitely see something like that being passed along genetically. I'm really curious how more complex behaviors get passed along.

    • @lexalina132
      @lexalina132 6 лет назад

      Oooh, that’s an interesting question! OoO makes you wonder!

    • @solalflechelles1216
      @solalflechelles1216 5 лет назад

      @@Prelude610 It's a very complex question, but basically, the neural networks in our brain come "pre-wired", that is, part of the layout of our brain is genetically encoded. That means that some behaviours do not need to be learned, because they are already present in our neural networks. A very simple example of such a behaviour is the stretch reflex, but theoretically more complex behaviours could be coded as well. It's very difficult to study though, because brain development, which explains how neurons form the first connections between themselves, is extremely complex.
      Of course, even if part of our brain's network is genetically encoded, the large majority isn't: there are about 1000 trillions synapses in our brain, which is way more information than our DNA could ever code for!

  • @barnabasszabolcs8708
    @barnabasszabolcs8708 4 года назад +2

    Awesome content! (all of the series!) I didn't like biology classes but in this form... it's so exciting that I started to make a personal deep time line:))) mapping out things you talk about... this video, it makes so much sense, yet it must have been so surprising to discover when they did! Ah we live in awesome times thanksss!

  • @mericusta1988
    @mericusta1988 4 месяца назад

    Perfectly balanced introduction, told in great order and with passion. Thanks

  • @guillermojrboy3292
    @guillermojrboy3292 6 лет назад +10

    Speaking of gut bacteria, how do newborns get theirs?

    • @olbap4683
      @olbap4683 6 лет назад +7

      From mother and environnement.

    • @negative.infinity
      @negative.infinity 5 лет назад +4

      I remember some article or video which said this comes from their mother breastfeeding them. For the longest time, people were puzzled by this because we cannot digest the breast milk ourselves. Then they realized that these gut bacteria can. The breast milk wasn't feeding us, it was feeding these bacteria and helping them to get established.

    • @regular-joe
      @regular-joe 4 года назад +3

      Also, from exposure while moving through the birth canal. Infants born by cesarean section are severely lacking in beneficial gut microbes and it can affect them their whole life.

  • @ProfessorPolitics
    @ProfessorPolitics 6 лет назад +29

    I remember hearing recently that there's a third branch, archaea, that are different from eukaryotes and prokaryotes. What's the difference between archaea and prokaryotes?

    • @EvolBob1
      @EvolBob1 6 лет назад +6

      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archaea

    • @MaestroRigale
      @MaestroRigale 6 лет назад +6

      Archaea are prokaryotes, but are very distinct from bacteria. Eukaryotes include Animals, Plants, Fungi, and... uh... I can’t remember the others, I think the kingdoms have changed since I took biology. Protists? 😂😂😂

    • @shelleysteva2251
      @shelleysteva2251 6 лет назад +12

      Their cell wall is made of different chemicals than bacteria. Most live in places that are too hot, too cold, too salty etc. For other species

    • @vampyricon7026
      @vampyricon7026 6 лет назад +7

      Prokaryotes include bacteria and archaea. Archaea include archaea.

    • @ProfessorPolitics
      @ProfessorPolitics 6 лет назад +1

      Thanks to everyone who's responded! This is definitely helping resolve my confusion.

  • @tirusew
    @tirusew 4 года назад +2

    I really really love your style. You make everything interesting and understandable

  • @akashlinadey1128
    @akashlinadey1128 6 лет назад +1

    Finally, a new one! And with a very fascinating topic. Thank You. :)

  • @Dragrath1
    @Dragrath1 6 лет назад +9

    A tantalizing part of the picture towards the origin of Eukaryotes might might involve the anaerobic Archaea only known via their DNA in organic samples that carry key genes for complex membranes otherwise unique to our nuclear genomes. Those are probably the best analogs for what the larger Archaean cell was probably like before combining with a bacteria that would become mitochondria .
    I wonder if the deadly threat of oxygen to anaerobes is what drove our Archaean ancestors to team up with aerobic bacteria giving little bacteria a nice place to hide from hungry microbes (or perhaps by chance one lunch managed to survive) which allowed the Archaean cells to venture out into the oxygenated world previously off limits an thrive.
    Has there been any new research on those "Asgardian" Archaea discovered only via DNA? Observing them alive might be what we need to finally come to understand how this happened.

    • @SC-zq6cu
      @SC-zq6cu 4 года назад +1

      Oxygen only became abundant after plant life appeared. According to what this video said this event happened thrice and the first plants appeared out of the second event. So, surviving oxygeneted atmosphere couldn't have been the reason for this, at least not for the first two events. I think this was mostly accidental but the pairs and triplets quickly flourished because of the additional energy benefits given by the "guests" that was unavailable to the loners.

  • @greensteve9307
    @greensteve9307 6 лет назад +3

    Great vid!

  • @rembertoadambelcourt7586
    @rembertoadambelcourt7586 6 лет назад +1

    This is absolutely amazing! Thank you very much for this video!

  • @thenavig8r956
    @thenavig8r956 4 года назад +1

    Wow, most excellent explaination to date.
    Love your humor.
    David

  • @suricatakat6476
    @suricatakat6476 6 лет назад +4

    Excellent episode. Um, however the music seemed to be drowning you out, which makes it a strain to concentrate on what you're saying. Just thought I'd mention it...

  • @maggsgorilla
    @maggsgorilla 6 лет назад +4

    I love this channel. Please keep up the great work. I would like to understand more about evolutionary detail. I.E. it seems to me strange that early parts of evolutionary change provide no real benefit. I mean how did we get to eyes and wings and beaks a bit at a time. the first changes dont seem to offer much. Its not like avian dinosaurs could just suddenly fly, but the first mutation toward feathered wings seems irrelevant. I love your show

    • @mnomadvfx
      @mnomadvfx 2 года назад

      " mean how did we get to eyes and wings and beaks a bit at a time. the first changes dont seem to offer much"
      The problem you are facing in understanding that outcome is that evolution of a new beneficial trait is all too often depicted as a strictly linear process in most media.
      Linear as in one germline develops one mutation, and then another, and then another with every few generations until it gets a significantly new trait.
      The reality is likely that a mix of positive (or negative) mutations met as multiple blood/germlines converged over time.
      Some mutations may have even been a negative to their originator on their own, but when mixed with mutations from convergent germlines may have provided a key component to a beneficial phenotypical trait.
      Another possibility is transgenic events where a virus picks up genetic material from one species or individual host cell and transmits that genetic material to a future host - we are always transcripting DNA to RNA to code for protein production so this could mix with viral RNA as it is replicating in a host cell.

  • @user-or7ji5hv8y
    @user-or7ji5hv8y 5 лет назад +2

    These are really quality content. To the point and entertaining and instructive.

  • @modolief
    @modolief 6 лет назад +2

    6:34 -- Fascinating! That yet a third type of eukaryote arose only about 450 million years ago, beyond the first occurrence of endosymbiosis giving rise to mitochondria, and the second, giving rise to chloroplasts. I hadn't known about this group before!

    • @TheRedKnight101
      @TheRedKnight101 6 лет назад +1

      That is referred to as secondary endosymbiosis as the Stramenopiles (groups including brown alagae, diatoms, and Plasmodium (malaria)) took the chloroplasts from red algae and there are even cases of tertiary endosymbiosis in dinnoflagellates. Even euglena is believed to have to taken it's chloroplast from green algae.

    • @modolief
      @modolief 6 лет назад

      Wow, fantastic info, thanks!!!

  • @perrysanders2899
    @perrysanders2899 6 лет назад +4

    I would like to know when did amphibians develop

  • @peterzimmermann7452
    @peterzimmermann7452 6 лет назад +9

    Endosymbiotic theory!

  • @sueanoimm
    @sueanoimm 6 лет назад +1

    Beautiful footage and beautiful narration!

  • @carlw72
    @carlw72 5 лет назад

    We ABSOLUTELY LOVE PBS Eons!! Thank you so much for all the work you good folks put into it. Would you guy put the speakers name up on the screen a couple times during the video so we know who we’re listening to and a link to the behind the scenes crew as well? Thank you again!

  • @Atchitchi
    @Atchitchi 6 лет назад +7

    Perfect timing for this video, i was trying to explain something i read ( www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(17)31504-0 ) to someone and had to use mitocondria as a kind of analogy... btw, how about a video about virus :D

  • @golgarisoul
    @golgarisoul 6 лет назад +5

    I would like some chloroplasts in my cells.

    • @Imadurazno
      @Imadurazno 6 лет назад +2

      Cypher Caliban One chloroplast please ☝️

    • @danielkorladis7869
      @danielkorladis7869 6 лет назад +2

      But I hear that it isn't easy, being green.

  • @UlaisisP
    @UlaisisP 6 лет назад +1

    I'm so glad you did this episode, I asked for it and I got it (I`m not saying you did it for me, but who knows, maybe you read my comment and it started something). I think this is the greatest event in our life history (I only knew two events, and now I know it happened three times. You did a good job on this topic.

  • @LilyMyLolita
    @LilyMyLolita 6 лет назад +1

    This is is the most brilliant biology story I've listened to in my recent memory!

  • @Suprsim
    @Suprsim 6 лет назад +3

    Sweet video

  • @perrysanders2899
    @perrysanders2899 6 лет назад +9

    Love this channel. Keep up the vids. Endosymbiosis!!!! I am guessing it is the mitochondria and chloroplast because i learned that in APBio

  • @batsrcuter
    @batsrcuter 6 лет назад +1

    Thank you! Not sure if it was the request I made two weeks ago for this topic but well done. Will be adding it to my history of earth prezi for next year.

  • @MrFildur
    @MrFildur 2 года назад

    Perfect! Will show this for my students.

  • @AliHSyed
    @AliHSyed 6 лет назад +7

    WoohO!! Eons!

  • @Wickedali1127
    @Wickedali1127 6 лет назад +5

    Prokaryote is an outdated term. The distinction between prokaryote and eukaryotes as you describe is rather arbitrary. It is better to sort by domain, bacteria, archaea, and eukarya.
    B.S in Microbiology

  • @MaryAnnNytowl
    @MaryAnnNytowl 2 года назад

    I really love these videos that peer into the deep past that you do! As darkly as that glass is that we peer through, the amount we can figure out is astonishing - and fascinating!

  • @lucashouse9117
    @lucashouse9117 21 день назад

    Longer videos would be amazing!

  • @adamjass7258
    @adamjass7258 6 лет назад +5

    please do a video about the Cambrian explosion

  • @lefthandofdog
    @lefthandofdog 6 лет назад +4

    I love the show, guys, but I really gotta be honest about something. In that one transition slide where it zooms in on the dinosaur, it zooms right into the dino's butt.

  • @ThereIsNoGodOnlyUs
    @ThereIsNoGodOnlyUs 5 лет назад +1

    This channel is seriously amazing.

  • @TharrisNogaud
    @TharrisNogaud 5 лет назад +1

    Yes! Well done! Beautifully presented it is an elegant saga in which we all continue to play a role in Life's continual Evolution!

  • @firstcynic92
    @firstcynic92 6 лет назад +3

    Quick question after seeing the first 20 sec of the video...
    Will you say "The Powerhouse Of The Cell" during the rest of this?

  • @hansrudi5551
    @hansrudi5551 6 лет назад +4

    i've heard that today no new coal is produced, could you explain why?

    • @scottk3034
      @scottk3034 6 лет назад

      Isn't peat one of the first steps on the journey to coal?

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC 6 лет назад +6

      Most coal came from plants between the point where they started producing lignin (the glue that holds plants cells together allowing large plants), and the time when fungi evolved a method of eating it. During that time wood basically didn't biodegrade, leading to large deposits.

    • @modolief
      @modolief 6 лет назад +3

      When it was new on the scene, dead wood didn't decay. Ok. So ... will there at some point be critters that eat plastic?

    • @CorwynGC
      @CorwynGC 6 лет назад +4

      Yes. That time is now.
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria

    • @bo_392
      @bo_392 6 лет назад +1

      see their other video, "History's Most Powerful Plants".

  • @Sollace
    @Sollace 4 года назад +2

    1:31 "or a cheap microscope"
    Well damn, girl. You not pulling any punches, are you/

  • @raffianmoin1358
    @raffianmoin1358 3 года назад +2

    bacterium 2: mom,i'm gonna sleep over my friend bacterium 1's house.
    ...........
    Multicelled organisms.

  • @kellyedwards4686
    @kellyedwards4686 6 лет назад +38

    Did you just assume my genetic makeup?

    • @pifdemestre7066
      @pifdemestre7066 6 лет назад +6

      Yes, they try to get back their procaryotes viewers at the end, but it is clear they have their own favorites.

    • @glowingfish
      @glowingfish 5 лет назад

      I might not actually have fully functioning eukaryotic DNA. Not a joke. Recessive gene in my family. :/

  • @petersamps
    @petersamps 6 лет назад +86

    ZERO dislikes? I guess I got here before the creationists...

    • @contramuffin5814
      @contramuffin5814 6 лет назад +24

      14 minutes later: 2 dislikes. Guess I wasn't so lucky to avoid those pesky creationists

    • @Trex-or6cd
      @Trex-or6cd 6 лет назад +12

      ContraMuffin yeah me two I wonder what creatonist are even doing watching science videos? Do they just want a fight? Is that it?

    • @SuperSalazar94
      @SuperSalazar94 6 лет назад

      Lol. Funny guy.

    • @Trex-or6cd
      @Trex-or6cd 6 лет назад +1

      SuperSalazar94 what's so funny?

    • @dwightk.schrute6743
      @dwightk.schrute6743 6 лет назад +1

      6 dislikes now.

  • @kwjames87
    @kwjames87 6 лет назад +2

    All of these have been really good, but this one was really really good.

  • @davecreelman
    @davecreelman Год назад

    Such a neat episode, many thanks.