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…
The Three First Principles of Evolutionary Psychology (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Charles Darwin’s discovery of evolution brought together centuries of observations scientists had made of living things into the science of biology. That was with The Origin…
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…
Africa 7 Million Years Ago (text)
ACT I Scene 1 7 million years ago, in southeastern Africa, there was a forest, where chimpanzees lived. They weren’t chimpanzees as we know them today. They were the ancestors…
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…
Plants and Worms to Fish, Amphibians, and Reptiles (text)
ACT I Scene 1 3,500,000,000 years ago there were single celled organisms floating in the ocean. There are a lot of steps between them and us. If you focus on…
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…
A Conceptual Detour of Evolutionary Biology (text)
ACT I Scene 1 Our story of the evolution of life has gotten up to multi-cellular life floating in the ocean. You know how many more steps there are…
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…