Our Lives Matter S1E15: The Stone Age + 50,000 Years
Archeology shows us that 50,000 years ago our ancestors had invented art, religion, music, and all the other patterns of behavior we have today. That means people 50,000 years ago…
Our Lives Matter S1E14: The Five Mental Traits of Evolutionary Psychology
Intelligence, for any animal species, starts with brains doing five basic things. All of animal behavior is the results of the interaction of those five mental functions. Everything people…
Our Lives Matter S1E13: The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology
Our story has led us from philosophy to math to physics to chemistry to biology to the origin of our species and the evolution of our intelligence. The next…
Our Lives Matter S1E12: Africa 7 Million Years Ago
Seven million years ago our ancestors were chimpanzees living in a forest in Africa. Then a drought caused a food shortage, and some of them walked into the grassland looking…
Our Lives Matter S1E11: Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles
How did we get from single celled organisms to all the diversity of life in the world today? If you focus on how many differences there are between one…
Our Lives Matter S1E10: A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology
There are a lot of steps in between the evolution of multicellular life and the evolution of the plants and animals as we think about them today. We can fill…
Our Lives Matter S1E09: The Evolution of Life
Genes are molecules. Evolution is caused by the replication, variation, and selection of genes. For life to begin on Earth, the geology of the Earth had to start a chemical…
Our Lives Matter S1E08: The Big Bang to the Periodic Table of the Elements
The Big Bang was a huge explosion of energy. Some of it condensed into matter. That set the universe in motion. It led to the formation of atoms. It also…
Our Lives Matter S1E07: A Philosophy of Four Mathematical Laws
Math is the metaphysics of science. Every scientific discovery is the discovery of a mathematical pattern in the world. To tell a mathematical story of the world that people…
Our Lives Matter S1E06: The Philosophical Foundation of Science
Science is a philosophy. The metaphysics are math. The epistemology is the five step process of observation, self consistency, universality, reproducibility, and debate. Those lead to hypotheses and theories. …