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Evolution, properly
How life got here — the theory everyone thinks they know, taught with the care it deserves.
8 lessons
~110 min total
Storytelling
What you'll learn
Understand why evolution is true, not a "theory" in the casual sense
Explain natural selection without hand-waving
Recognize the most common misconceptions in pop-science
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1
Before Darwin
How did people explain the diversity of life before 1859?
3 objectives
2
Darwin's idea, in three pieces
Variation, inheritance, differential survival — the whole theory.
3 objectives
3
Genes: the missing piece
Darwin had no mechanism for inheritance — Mendel filled that gap.
3 objectives
4
What "fitness" actually means
Not strength or speed — reproductive success in a specific environment.
3 objectives
5
How species split
Isolation, drift, and the slow accumulation of difference.
3 objectives
6
Kinds of selection
Natural selection alone does not explain peacock tails or altruism.
3 objectives
7
Shared plans: why all vertebrates look alike underneath
Homology, development, and the unity behind the diversity.
3 objectives
8
Getting evolution right
The mistakes that even smart pop-science routinely makes.
3 objectives
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