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How Did Humans Evolve? Crash Course Biology #19

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What’s a human? And how did we become humans, anyway?

A Lot About Axolotls

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Join Jessi and Squeaks as they learn about why axolotls have feathery gills and live in water, and how to protect their natural habitat.

Why Did It Take Us So Long?

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We've long known that animal pollination is an important way plants reproduce on land, but we're only JUST finding out animals also pollinate plants underwater.

The best pregnancy test used to be this frog ... no, really - Carly Anne York

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Dig into how African clawed frogs can help detect human pregnancy, and how their use in experiments had unintended consequences.

CRISPR's Next Advance Is Bigger Than You Think

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You've probably heard of CRISPR, the revolutionary technology that allows us to edit the DNA in living organisms.

Why Do Giraffes Have Long Necks?

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Why do giraffes have such long necks?

The World's Longest Beak

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The sword-billed hummingbird has exclusive access to food that other birds simply cannot reach, but having such a long bill does have its drawbacks.

Why So Many Ladybugs Don't Look Like Ladybugs

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Ladybugs are red with black spots, right? Well, not always. There's a lot of genetic and evolutionary reasons that they can be different colors with wacky patterns.

Do mosquitos actually bite some people more than others?

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Explore the science of what attracts mosquitos, and find out why mosquitos bite some people more than others.

Why Do We Have Bones?

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Why do we have skeletons inside of us, and what even are bones?

The WEIRD Way Monkeys Got to America

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Many of the greatest biological dispersal events in history likely happened because animals inadvertently traveled across the oceans on floating debris.

Sense-Abilities | Weird But True!

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Watch the full episode of Weird But True, Season 1 Episode 11, "Sense-Abilities"! Did you know that when you smell something, molecules of whatever you’re smelling are actually entering your nose?!

Why Can't I Grow More Teeth?

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How come sharks get to have endlessly regrowing teeth when humans only get one set our entire lives? And how come some other mammals get to cheat the system? From elephants to baboons, we'll learn why teeth don't grow back.

How Species Make and Break Friendships

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Community ecology is the study of interactions between different species of living things, and lets ecologists examine the effects of predator-prey relationships, parasites, and mutually beneficial interactions. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll examine the myriad interspecies interactions with examples, see how keystone species impact their environment and explore how communities rebuild when they are disrupted, through the lens of the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens.

The #1 way to strengthen your mind is to use your body | Wendy Suzuki

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Exercise gives your brain a “bubble bath of neurochemicals,” says Wendy Suzuki, a professor of neural science.

Blindness Isn't a Tragic Binary — It's a Rich Spectrum | Andrew Leland | TED

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When does vision loss become blindness? Writer, audio producer and editor Andrew Leland explains how his gradual loss of vision revealed a paradoxical truth about blindness -- and shows why it might have implications for how all of us see the world.

How Fish Get Away With Being Colourful

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Coral reef fish get away with being colourful thanks to a weird quirk of underwater optics.