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Adaptation Adaptive Radiation Altruism Altruistic Punishment Australopithecus Common Ancestors Costly Signaling Creationism Cultural Evolution Descent of Man DNA Evolutionary Psychology Fitness Fitness Display Fossil Record Future Discounting Genetic Drift God of the Gaps Heredity Homo Erectus Intelligent Design Kinship Life Expectancy Life History Theory Migration Mitochondria Multi-level Selection Mutation Natural Selection Origins of Language Out of Africa Parental Investment Theory Philosophical Naturalism Primate Evolution Reciprocal Altruism Reproductive Strategies Scientific Method Sexual Dimorphism Sexual Selection Social Constructivism Sociobiology Statistics Status Competition Tree of Life Unity of Common Descent
Music Videos
Darwin battles his intellectual adversaries in breakdance and through Baba’s rhymes.
The tree of life connects all living things, and humans help to shape the branches through selective breeding and through culture.
Baba debates his religious cousins and his relativist sister around the family dinner table.
What does Darwin’s theory say about morality and the meaning of life? A cosmic vision of evolution and its legacy.
Showing off is a great way to attract mates; peacocks do it with feathers, while humans do it with clever words, fashion, and bling.
Afro-centricity belongs to the human species, not to any particular race. We are all African under the skin, even white boys like Baba.
Darwin’s version of “love thy neighbour” extends to the whole world, so can’t we all just get along?
From the perspective of evolution, we are here to serve our genes, not vice versa. Where does all this diversity come from? From DNA.
Keywords: Adaptation, Common Ancestors, DNA Replication, Double Helix, Fitness, Heritability, Mutation, Protein Synthesis.
Violent crime and teenage pregnancy can also be understood as products of evolution, a new view of gangsta rap.
A rapper writing lyrics is a lot like the process of evolution, which tries out multiple drafts, scratching out and revising to find out what works.