What is Impossible in Evolution?

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Could humans ever evolve to have wings? Why don’t fish have propellers? Why don’t tigers have wheels? Why don’t zebras have laser turrets? These might all seem like stupid questions (and maybe they are!) but they can teach us a lot about how evolution actually works, and how it doesn’t work.
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  • @besmart
    @besmart3 жыл бұрын

    We’re aware some people are seeing glitches and artifacts on the video. We’ve reviewed and it’s not in the master video file! Seems to be a problem on KZread’s end with how they encode the videos (we aren’t the only channel affected), and we hope it’s fixed soon.

  • @RudeAlert

    @RudeAlert

    3 жыл бұрын

    THANK YOU for mentioning this! I was starting to freak out, wondering if it was my computer about to croak. Well, at least it's not just your channel, and this was a great video anyways, so who care about a few weird visual glitches. Keep up the good work.

  • @brokeandtired

    @brokeandtired

    3 жыл бұрын

    But evolution can evolve laser Zebras... It evolves humans who then can put lasers on Zebras.

  • @mixtlillness9825

    @mixtlillness9825

    3 жыл бұрын

    I see. So it’s not the drugs then.

  • @mixei4

    @mixei4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I've already started looking for a hidden message there.

  • @Goryus

    @Goryus

    3 жыл бұрын

    5-legged cats have actually been observed...maybe worth a correction.

  • @Happy-yf8bc
    @Happy-yf8bc3 жыл бұрын

    “Why is there no giraffe-sized chickens” Because they got wiped out by a space rock

  • @Eldritch-1

    @Eldritch-1

    3 жыл бұрын

    became KFC in the modern age.

  • @hydrolito

    @hydrolito

    3 жыл бұрын

    Some guy might think it is possible to clone them and figure out a way to do it that was plot of movie Death Birds.

  • @motazfawzi2504

    @motazfawzi2504

    3 жыл бұрын

    They are exclusive for the Skyrim DLC of the Universe.

  • @ygotsvlog3762

    @ygotsvlog3762

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Eldritch-1 they got cooked

  • @antz4thehour601

    @antz4thehour601

    3 жыл бұрын

    True

  • @so-ares
    @so-ares3 жыл бұрын

    "Nature is infinitely creative" - Keep creating crabs...

  • @KoneSkirata

    @KoneSkirata

    3 жыл бұрын

    I understood that reference!

  • @thewildcardperson

    @thewildcardperson

    3 жыл бұрын

    Nice

  • @gardenhead92

    @gardenhead92

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can’t argue with perfection

  • @kiryu4708

    @kiryu4708

    3 жыл бұрын

    Ya I got crabs

  • @kiryu4708

    @kiryu4708

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh wait not that kind... nvm

  • @breadloafbrad
    @breadloafbrad Жыл бұрын

    The hills and valleys representation of evolution is actually an incredible way of visualizing it

  • @vast634

    @vast634

    Жыл бұрын

    The same concept lies behind training artificial neural nets. Its an optimization problem, searching in the space of opportunities.

  • @clapdrix72

    @clapdrix72

    4 ай бұрын

    It's a useful framework for solving a lot of problems. Machine learning for one.

  • @Dad-rk8pi

    @Dad-rk8pi

    2 ай бұрын

    ​@@vast634Exactly, i was visualising gradient descent when he was talking about evolution

  • @steelbear2063

    @steelbear2063

    Ай бұрын

    Though there's something to be said about moving downwards. No it's not really downwards, but simplification is a thing also, where organisms lose some traits

  • @JakeEast68

    @JakeEast68

    Ай бұрын

    ​@@steelbear2063I was just thinking about the fact that if a species lost the need for something, they could "travel back down the hill" and possibly go up a new one

  • @MartijnMuller
    @MartijnMuller9 ай бұрын

    Some hairless ape: why don't we have giraffe-sized chickens? Dinosaurs: am I a joke to you?

  • @ishowslow5044

    @ishowslow5044

    Ай бұрын

    Elephant birds: Yes.

  • @AhmedAffraz
    @AhmedAffraz3 жыл бұрын

    "If humans could fly, we'd consider it exercise and never do it" - Ron Swanson

  • @jayav2877

    @jayav2877

    3 жыл бұрын

    I didn't know someone had said this before and honestly had a conversation about this last year.

  • @faustin289

    @faustin289

    3 жыл бұрын

    ... unless you could mate mid-flight.

  • @Unknown-tv3bi

    @Unknown-tv3bi

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@faustin289 That would take a lot of mating.

  • @sam_9228

    @sam_9228

    3 жыл бұрын

    I miss Parks and Rec lol

  • @InfinityOrNone

    @InfinityOrNone

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@faustin289 Flying is complicated enough as is, I doubt anyone would be able to pull it off mid-coitus. Take the Bald Eagle's mid-air mating; they don't do it while flying, they do it while _falling._

  • @vekkimheng8766
    @vekkimheng87662 жыл бұрын

    People : where's the laser zebras?! Evolution : crabs, take it or leave it.

  • @zeppelincraft1443

    @zeppelincraft1443

    2 жыл бұрын

    While crabs: We have microscopic vision that defines more than enough colors and we can make plasma out of our claws.

  • @kadmuspl830

    @kadmuspl830

    2 жыл бұрын

    insert "silence brand" meme

  • @anotherrandomguy8871

    @anotherrandomguy8871

    2 жыл бұрын

    Pistol shrimp who can fire heat bubbles out of their huge claw like a cannon: sup

  • @newmeta2668

    @newmeta2668

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anotherrandomguy8871 meanwhile mantis shrimp who can also create heat bubbles on impact with their club like arms: sup

  • @caseyhansen4467

    @caseyhansen4467

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmao I love that I understood the reference 😂

  • @gilgonzalez8985
    @gilgonzalez89855 ай бұрын

    “You don’t just get something because it’s cool” My financial decisions beg to differ.

  • @RanEdgar-ok3wk

    @RanEdgar-ok3wk

    27 күн бұрын

    🫵😨 no stop how dare save your money good sir/mis/they Don’t do itttttt😭😭

  • @csabalako1788
    @csabalako1788 Жыл бұрын

    Excuses, excuses... I want my zebras with laser turrets!

  • @blendersparticlesystem5220

    @blendersparticlesystem5220

    Жыл бұрын

    Everybody does

  • @crazydinosaur8945

    @crazydinosaur8945

    4 ай бұрын

    @@blendersparticlesystem5220 think Lions dont

  • @GabiN64

    @GabiN64

    3 ай бұрын

    ​@@crazydinosaur8945 they should evolve deflector shields then

  • @jellyfishno.22

    @jellyfishno.22

    2 ай бұрын

    Forget zebras, why don't I have laser turrets!?

  • @doktormcnasty

    @doktormcnasty

    14 күн бұрын

    @@jellyfishno.22 Zebras need them more than you do because of all the lions, crocodiles, wild dogs, & hyenas they have to content with.

  • @joshuasims5421
    @joshuasims54213 жыл бұрын

    Giraffe size chicken isn’t remotely impossible, that’s a T-rex

  • @toastiesburned9929

    @toastiesburned9929

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but they would have to switch back on a lot of genes that might have mutated away. Re-evolving giantism would probably be pretty hard for a domesticated species. At least without a special breeding program... 🤔

  • @spacesharkwriter6554

    @spacesharkwriter6554

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, the tyrannosaurus genus died a long time ago, trex was one of the last tyrannosaurs, t-rex was already on the decline, it was evolving into a bird, it was growing feathers and turning into a chicken, the atmosphere and the climate, it was more efficient to be a small bird, think about that the next time you eat chicken wings, 11 year old dinosaur genus out ✌🏻

  • @rogeriopenna9014

    @rogeriopenna9014

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Clifford_Banes Dino bones were just like bird bones. And no, duck bones are stronger than the more solid mammal bones with the same cross section. That's exactly the reason why dinosaurs could grow to larger sizes than mammals. With the same cross section, a dino bone is stronger and thus can support more mass than a mammal bone

  • @saturnianrings3920

    @saturnianrings3920

    3 жыл бұрын

    It’s CRISPR time.

  • @SirSpiro

    @SirSpiro

    3 жыл бұрын

    LMAO

  • @bubblebeamm
    @bubblebeamm3 жыл бұрын

    I dont even want wings man i just want the lumbar spine to be able to support us

  • @azhero09

    @azhero09

    3 жыл бұрын

    A truly underappreciated comment

  • @blazingtrs6348

    @blazingtrs6348

    3 жыл бұрын

    for that the people with back pain shouldn’t propagate

  • @azhero09

    @azhero09

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@blazingtrs6348 let's do it for science then

  • @zombkillrb

    @zombkillrb

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm telling y'all cybernetics is where it's at, I heard developers talk about how the only people who would use it would be those who need it like amputees but I'm not convinced that if it were really effecient that it wouldn't become used recreationally and complimentary like to eliminate the effects of carpal tunnel syndrome or others like it

  • @whatwhale5888

    @whatwhale5888

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zombkillrb oh for sure, I dont dount people will be recreationally augmenting themselves for medical reasons but also for fun. Personally im looking forward to eye implants. Like imagine being able to take pics or zoom or have night vision with your eyes

  • @weston407
    @weston407 Жыл бұрын

    I had the EXACT same experience with Return to Oz and the wheelers when I was a kid - the wheeler looking through the keyhole absolutely terrified me

  • @cherriewithrow4061

    @cherriewithrow4061

    11 ай бұрын

    *MOOOOOOAAAAAANNNNNN*

  • @cherriewithrow4061

    @cherriewithrow4061

    11 ай бұрын

    *GROOOAAANNN*

  • @cherriewithrow4061

    @cherriewithrow4061

    11 ай бұрын

    I do this for no reason

  • @marrrtin
    @marrrtin11 ай бұрын

    Worth mentioning that nature makes wheels, or at least rotors at the molecular scale, such as a flagellum, like a propellor for a protist, or the famous "waterwheel driven by protons", ATP Synthase.

  • @hoi-polloi1863

    @hoi-polloi1863

    21 күн бұрын

    Right, on the macro scale wheels get really hard because you have to be able to feed the "spinny bits" without having them attached to the circulatory system. At tiny scales all kinds of great stuff becomes practical!

  • @matheuroux5134
    @matheuroux51343 жыл бұрын

    If we all start actively pretending that large arms are super attractive, and seek mates with massive arms, that would be the first step towards a wing evolution.

  • @spiderpickle3255

    @spiderpickle3255

    3 жыл бұрын

    Human hands > wings Our hands are one of those extremely high evolutionary peaks, arguably a higher one than wings. Look into how our fingernails absolutely blow away claws and then consider what our dexterity has enabled us to build as a species.

  • @bsu5574

    @bsu5574

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spiderpickle3255 b..but...wings.... :((

  • @asiantom4935

    @asiantom4935

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@spiderpickle3255 ok but wings

  • @monad_tcp

    @monad_tcp

    3 жыл бұрын

    nah, the only thing we all know it will happen is that humans will get higher and higher

  • @chargemankent

    @chargemankent

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@monad_tcp Welp... I think that's enough weed today~

  • @shallowseller3893
    @shallowseller38932 жыл бұрын

    5 millions years later Laser Zebra: Well guess what.

  • @ChaseTSY

    @ChaseTSY

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @ChaseTSY

    @ChaseTSY

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lmfao

  • @therealgboi3895

    @therealgboi3895

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ChaseTSY Lmfao

  • @therealgboi3895

    @therealgboi3895

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ChaseTSY Lmfao

  • @wtfmarcello5547

    @wtfmarcello5547

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@therealgboi3895 Lmfao

  • @Mightydoggo
    @Mightydoggo8 ай бұрын

    I remember my grandparents having a Trabant. It was loud, stinky, had a tendency to fall apart and if you hit a cobblestone road, it would severely hamper your reproduction capabilities for a few days. Still the flexibility compared to the horse cart we often took to the market at weekends was superb. You also had no heater, so we used to put one of those propane gas canisters on the backseat with a heating unit on it. Oh and the doors stopped working towards the end, so we had to enter/leave through the window. Yeah... "Good" old times, eh? Nowadays even on the countryside every family has at least 2 cars, often more and you even see stuff like Teslas from time to time. Among a lot of tractors and the occasional horse/dog cart.

  • @TheSniff517
    @TheSniff51723 күн бұрын

    "We're still not gonna grow wings though." Me: Drinks Redbull

  • @juksleo6257
    @juksleo62573 жыл бұрын

    **Looks at the thumbnail** **looks at my pet Zebra** Me: "it's ok Gerald, don't listen to him, your lasers will grow in a few years"

  • @Lucian_Andries

    @Lucian_Andries

    3 жыл бұрын

    We love you just the way you are..... :)))))))))))))

  • @Artist_of_Imagination

    @Artist_of_Imagination

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait you have a pet zebra?!!

  • @NurseSnow2U

    @NurseSnow2U

    3 жыл бұрын

    🤣🤣🤣, it’s gonna be just fine Gerald.

  • @andrinjohn3449

    @andrinjohn3449

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Artist_of_Imagination toys may be 😂

  • @ronjayrose9706

    @ronjayrose9706

    3 жыл бұрын

    Stop lying to that poor zebra

  • @andyt1313
    @andyt13133 жыл бұрын

    I read this somewhere. Evolution isn’t about the “best” or even the “good”, it’s about the “good enough”

  • @altrag

    @altrag

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sort of but not really. If say, zebras evolved lasers to fight off all their predators they would definitely be "good enough", but there would still be competition for mates and food and the like so the entire species as a whole would continue to get "better" even though all of the pressures are all internal. It would be a much, much slower evolution than would be produced by external pressures, but it would still happen.

  • @nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife

    @nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@altrag maybe lions would evolve laser beams or ways to deflect the laser.

  • @menacetosociety9076

    @menacetosociety9076

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@nate7LP_my_dog_found_the_knife mirror lions 😳

  • @vedantjain5853

    @vedantjain5853

    3 жыл бұрын

    You probably heard it on KZread as I did too recently but can’t remember from which video

  • @matheussanthiago9685

    @matheussanthiago9685

    3 жыл бұрын

    evolution is the greatest C - student

  • @antigrav6004
    @antigrav60049 ай бұрын

    'when you're the best, why try harder?' - crabs

  • @KuyoCuteeTv
    @KuyoCuteeTv4 ай бұрын

    im a simple guy, i see zebra with laser, i click. this means there is a possibility of mermaids existing

  • @darkwowplayer
    @darkwowplayer2 жыл бұрын

    "Why haven't Zebras evolved laser turrets to fend off lions?" FINALLY, SOMEONE IS ASKING THE REAL QUESTIONS!

  • @brolydictcumberbatchmontou401

    @brolydictcumberbatchmontou401

    Жыл бұрын

    is an electrical eel not close enough to an equally doable evolutionary trait? I mean tasering crocodiles or lions sneaking up to you in the watering hole seems like a good savannah trait, why don't we see a lot of land animals develop this trait? Because it isn't all that useful on land, and takes a greater amount of food consumption to fuel the organs needed to generate the necessary stores of attack and in the Zebra's case why need it when you have a heard and one the most powerful hind kicks per square inch. A secondary defense system in an a mostly non aquatic life style doesn't evolve because it isn't efficient. Not when you already have useful defense systems.

  • @brolydictcumberbatchmontou401

    @brolydictcumberbatchmontou401

    Жыл бұрын

    And if I also add electric eels have developed this unique defense as an effective offense system as well. So it has double benefits for a predator. Not an herbivore in the long run on land.

  • @terrytheinsane

    @terrytheinsane

    Жыл бұрын

    It is because zebras don't need laser turrets, they use their stripes to hypnotize predators

  • @evalynnlindquist8111

    @evalynnlindquist8111

    Жыл бұрын

    I was more concerned about sharks with freakin Lazer beams on their heads

  • @santy214gamer5

    @santy214gamer5

    Жыл бұрын

    @@terrytheinsane I hope you where joking because that is the most incorrect statement I have heard in a long time

  • @miketacos9034
    @miketacos90343 жыл бұрын

    Birds: "If only we had hands instead of these useless wings, so we could build laser cannons."

  • @Galaxia7

    @Galaxia7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Said 50 % of New Zealand birds

  • @rowandunning6877

    @rowandunning6877

    3 жыл бұрын

    yeah, a lot of birds are fuckin' smart

  • @God-ch8lq

    @God-ch8lq

    3 жыл бұрын

    Haha crows go brrrr

  • @ExtantFrodo2

    @ExtantFrodo2

    3 жыл бұрын

    Building prosthetics for animals so they can be tool users... hmm.

  • @tres-2b299

    @tres-2b299

    2 жыл бұрын

    Birds: i wish we had hands Humans: i wish we had wings

  • @onimaruvt
    @onimaruvt11 ай бұрын

    the landscape graph was such a good visual representation

  • @Mikado8
    @Mikado8 Жыл бұрын

    It’s been a really long time since the last time i learned that many new things with so many really great explanations

  • @ewanbiesinger7667
    @ewanbiesinger76672 жыл бұрын

    A lovely way to sum this up would be to state that “evolution is lazy”. Evolution will solve a problem in the easiest way possible. And will never go out of its way to make a species superior.

  • @anunknownperson4018

    @anunknownperson4018

    2 жыл бұрын

    it will take years for species evolution to change, look at radiation it last till probably more than 24 yrs, maybe in the future humans or animals will resist radiation?

  • @ewanbiesinger7667

    @ewanbiesinger7667

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@anunknownperson4018 surely resistance to radiation is one of the things that is actively being worked on by evolution right now… However as you correctly stated, this will take years.

  • @patricknogueiraa

    @patricknogueiraa

    2 жыл бұрын

    Exactly, evolution has nothing to do with being superior, it is about being fit for your environment at the lowest cost. That's why not all animals end up big, predators or having high intelligence

  • @kilroy987

    @kilroy987

    2 жыл бұрын

    Evolution: Make owl ears asymmeterical so they can use sound to see, let this snail shed its body and grow a new one from just its head, make this walking stick look just like a leaf, and this beetle shoots hot chemicals from its butt.

  • @MultiMolly21

    @MultiMolly21

    2 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes it will. Right now, we are Nature's darlings because we're going to save the planet, once we get our ducks in a row that is. We needed the infinitely powerful Atomic Bomb, and for that She was willing to sacrifice trillions of us, but now that we have that, and the capacity to spot a meteor on its way to smash us, we can get civilized again and clean things up a bit. Remember, we're not done evolving; we're a work in progress. But we're also the Saints here, and all of Life on Earth is counting on us.

  • @Eralen00
    @Eralen003 жыл бұрын

    Europeans: "You don't use wheels? You know, those round thingies that spin on axles?" Mesoamericans: "Oh we put those on our toys for children"

  • @chandrasekarannatarajan3542

    @chandrasekarannatarajan3542

    3 жыл бұрын

    Then they sacrifice them

  • @RhodianColossus

    @RhodianColossus

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@chandrasekarannatarajan3542 there were people other than aztecs in the americas you know

  • @thememoryhole9355

    @thememoryhole9355

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'll bet the toys were copied from other cultures from wheeled societies, perhaps the Chinese.

  • @Sorrowdusk

    @Sorrowdusk

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@thememoryhole9355 they'd have to MEET the Chinese first

  • @thememoryhole9355

    @thememoryhole9355

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Sorrowdusk Yes. I'm suggesting the Chinese may have made it to the Americas, among others.

  • @oddinvestigator
    @oddinvestigator7 ай бұрын

    Best way I've seen someone explaining square cube law. The volume increases at a higuer rate in comparison to area. It's possible to create a relation between the increments, but impossible directly between volume and area, as the area/volume ratio doesn't exist since the units differ.

  • @livingcorpse5664
    @livingcorpse566410 ай бұрын

    No energy weapon evolution like lasers. Electric Eels: Am I joke to you?

  • @Tophat-Turtle

    @Tophat-Turtle

    9 ай бұрын

    That's electricity my guy, that's quite normal in the animal kingdom

  • @livingcorpse5664

    @livingcorpse5664

    9 ай бұрын

    @@Tophat-Turtle Woosh.

  • @Loth_kat
    @Loth_kat2 жыл бұрын

    Einstein: "You can't teach a fish to climb a tree." Mudskipper: *climbs tree Einstein: ....

  • @odeofdespair

    @odeofdespair

    2 жыл бұрын

    Funny, but you got the quote wrong. Its "If you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree it will live its whole life thinking its stupid." or something to that affect.

  • @Loth_kat

    @Loth_kat

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@odeofdespair ye but however stupid the fish thought it was, it finally climbed a tree

  • @sayakchoudhury9711

    @sayakchoudhury9711

    2 жыл бұрын

    There's a fish literally called Climbing Perch

  • @Loth_kat

    @Loth_kat

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ludnixvonbithoven2644 xD not exactly how he said it. It's just for jokes

  • @ligth3977

    @ligth3977

    2 жыл бұрын

    There are people with disabilities that did the almost impossible.

  • @ariedevs
    @ariedevs3 жыл бұрын

    Meanwhile in another multiverse zebrazooka just started their world war 9.

  • @thoticcusprime9309

    @thoticcusprime9309

    2 жыл бұрын

    nope

  • @chiefmaster2128

    @chiefmaster2128

    2 жыл бұрын

    Kamikaze butterfly's don't stand a chance

  • @MaskFaceStup1dP4nc4kes

    @MaskFaceStup1dP4nc4kes

    2 жыл бұрын

    it's funny to imagine these stuff happening in other realities.

  • @mega-_-1984

    @mega-_-1984

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@chiefmaster2128 nah they'll team up with lemon starfish and destroy zebrazookas

  • @OTDinosaurScrubs

    @OTDinosaurScrubs

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@mega-_-1984 but the rocket rhinos stay on top

  • @granolakitti8521
    @granolakitti8521 Жыл бұрын

    With the same logic that rattet snakes "rattle parts" work, animals should be able to grow wheels. And if muscles, or other movable tissue, os correctly positioned inside they would be able to roll

  • @adissentingopinion848

    @adissentingopinion848

    Жыл бұрын

    Yeah, but the snake could get more effective with but a single grain of substance rattling in their tail. At least it wouldn't hurt, and it is ultimately not vital to survival. If you're gonna roll with wheels they have to be complete and be repairable from damage. The bones in our legs can mend themselves because they're surrounded with static flesh and tons of blood.

  • @Ant3rn

    @Ant3rn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@adissentingopinion848evolution is ok with non-repairable parts. What’s about teeth or limbs? A lion without teeth is pretty dead in wild. I would say wheels are not effective enough without roads ( durability, flexibility, speed ) to compete with good old legs.

  • @SwordFastic

    @SwordFastic

    Жыл бұрын

    how will they move the wheels?

  • @Ant3rn

    @Ant3rn

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SwordFastic any way. Pushing, like on wheelchair, more close to a steam train. It’s no more complicated than our eye or brain.

  • @LineOfThy

    @LineOfThy

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SwordFastic pushing with other limbs

  • @SirNobleIZH
    @SirNobleIZH Жыл бұрын

    But I WANT MY LASER ZEBRA!!!

  • @saims.2402
    @saims.24023 жыл бұрын

    When I first learned about evolution, it was from Pokémon, I was 4 and I sat in a corner trying to evolve. Edit: I only believed evolution works like in Pokémon until I was 8 or 9.

  • @eternalblue4660

    @eternalblue4660

    3 жыл бұрын

    Well, did it work?

  • @saims.2402

    @saims.2402

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@eternalblue4660 I evolved into a bored teenager.

  • @amalirfan

    @amalirfan

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@saims.2402 now where you at, did you get to adulthood :D

  • @saims.2402

    @saims.2402

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@amalirfan now I’m evolved into a KZread commenting teenager

  • @rogeriopenna9014

    @rogeriopenna9014

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pokemon style evolution is EXACTLY how creationists think Evolution works, and use as a strawman to discredit it. "Why don´t we see apes turning into humans... like right now?". "Why no ducks turning into crocodiles?"

  • @danieljensen2626
    @danieljensen26263 жыл бұрын

    Zebras could use a small glowing red spot to attract mates, then use a low wattage laser to distract lions (think laser pointer and cat), and then eventually power up the laser into a defensive weapon.

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    3 жыл бұрын

    Now I really want to see the biological mechanism of a laser. I can almost imagine it right now. Energy storage and discharge like an electric eel, transparent structures abound, add in some bioluminescence and all it needs is cohesiveness light, which I'm sure evolution could figure out.

  • @michaelprice3031

    @michaelprice3031

    3 жыл бұрын

    They'd have to eat a lot though to maintain enough energy to operate it. Perhaps they would develop biological solar panels too?

  • @kindlin

    @kindlin

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelprice3031 It could come slowly from your metabolism, or more quickly if light sensitive skin cells started charging up those eel-like batteries.

  • @qwertyasdf9290

    @qwertyasdf9290

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@michaelprice3031 green zebras with chlorophyll

  • @rhiannanmcdermott6631

    @rhiannanmcdermott6631

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@kindlin bn43 ^ 7

  • @Somebody_VK
    @Somebody_VK Жыл бұрын

    Well, I suppose it's time to lock a zebra in a laser room for a couple million years.

  • @erivanjunior9368
    @erivanjunior936810 ай бұрын

    I actually was about to comment about the mulefas. Glad to see the reference and they actually look even weirder than I had imagined when I read the books.

  • @nobody5093
    @nobody50933 жыл бұрын

    when people say they want wings, i don't think anyone is thinking about turning their arms in to wings but having wings come out of their back.

  • @SunniMerlot

    @SunniMerlot

    3 жыл бұрын

    Exactly. Angel style

  • @notmyopinion4981

    @notmyopinion4981

    3 жыл бұрын

    i wish we could engineer those, but they apparently have to be huge, to support us and their own weight, cuz they also will be heavy, since we don't have much materials that are light enough and also efficient... so yeah... kinda a bummer

  • @nettewilson853

    @nettewilson853

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes

  • @nettewilson853

    @nettewilson853

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@notmyopinion4981 but we could be smaller and have lighter bones maybe???

  • @rymontgomery7546

    @rymontgomery7546

    3 жыл бұрын

    Seems even less likely

  • @maxwoo9695
    @maxwoo96952 жыл бұрын

    "thats why its impossible" 200000 years later, Zebras: whanna bet

  • @electronx5594

    @electronx5594

    2 жыл бұрын

    i doubt if its gonna still be a zebra

  • @rishikesh4117

    @rishikesh4117

    2 жыл бұрын

    Possible but not inside 200k years Dont give that nuub in the first reply likes

  • @maxwoo9695

    @maxwoo9695

    2 жыл бұрын

    @ً ruh roh reggy

  • @ph1l69

    @ph1l69

    2 жыл бұрын

    Sans

  • @maxwoo9695

    @maxwoo9695

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@ph1l69 ye

  • @justicemo9090
    @justicemo9090Күн бұрын

    This was actually great. Definitely worth a sub.

  • @FindTheFun
    @FindTheFun2 ай бұрын

    Local optima is actually a great way to think about addictions. It's difficult to quit your addictions because you have to go down a lesser peak to find you pathway to a higher one.

  • @lluma8153
    @lluma81533 жыл бұрын

    Looks at thumbnail “Hey Ferb, I know what we’re going to do today!”

  • @mseandimitriusk7636

    @mseandimitriusk7636

    3 жыл бұрын

    *muuuuuum

  • @beingrandomisfun6927

    @beingrandomisfun6927

    3 жыл бұрын

    LASER ZEBRAS!!

  • @kusaisama

    @kusaisama

    2 жыл бұрын

    @Funtime Florian Candace

  • @benijager1372

    @benijager1372

    2 жыл бұрын

    Some biomechanical zebra

  • @Carlo99yehey

    @Carlo99yehey

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@kusaisama dan

  • @sagealyxander
    @sagealyxander3 жыл бұрын

    i have a bachelors degree in biology and I was never taught about that "can only go uphill" thing in my four frickin years. thanks IOTBS lol

  • @thomasw4422

    @thomasw4422

    3 жыл бұрын

    We learnt about that while studying genetic/evolution based optimisation algorithms. If you up the mutation rate to very high levels, you can sorta. But you also risk losing any advantages. It's like the chance of superpowers vs cancer.

  • @Tyronejizz

    @Tyronejizz

    3 жыл бұрын

    Why is someone with a bachelor degree in bilogy watching a kids show?

  • @jacobrutzke691

    @jacobrutzke691

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Tyronejizz because its interesting and people like learning new things

  • @Tyronejizz

    @Tyronejizz

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jacobrutzke691 if he has a bachlor in biology he should already know why you can't evolve wings.

  • @jacobrutzke691

    @jacobrutzke691

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Tyronejizz so you can always learn new things and some times it's just fun to listen to something in the background

  • @dasstigma
    @dasstigma9 ай бұрын

    5:36 I need this as a poster!

  • @5driedgrams
    @5driedgrams3 ай бұрын

    4:40 "please leave" lol this is gold

  • @brian576
    @brian5763 жыл бұрын

    Very disappointing, they totally missed out on "sharks with frickin laser beams on their heads"

  • @besmart

    @besmart

    3 жыл бұрын

    Geneva Conventions forbid it

  • @ReprucssionsForever

    @ReprucssionsForever

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@besmart Mutate the gene in Geneva convention to GENE-VA-riation Convention....and give us the damn psychedelic octopus.......

  • @saturnianrings3920

    @saturnianrings3920

    3 жыл бұрын

    Get filthy rich. Get a team of Scientist to go wild with CRISPR and your in business.

  • @DneilB007

    @DneilB007

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@ReprucssionsForever No, not *that* Geneva Convention. Joe means the 1952 Geneva Copyright Convention. Dr. Evil Jr would demonetize the video.

  • @daisybuchanan8205

    @daisybuchanan8205

    3 жыл бұрын

    Dr Evil hhhhhhh

  • @matthewtheobald1231
    @matthewtheobald12312 жыл бұрын

    "Survival of the Fittest" should be renamed to "Survival of the Good Enough"

  • @ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108

    @ihopeicanchangethisnamelat7108

    2 жыл бұрын

    “Survival of the Somewhat Mediocre”

  • @Tururu134

    @Tururu134

    2 жыл бұрын

    Survival of the barely able to survive

  • @Yora21

    @Yora21

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@Tururu134 Literally the lowest bar imaginable.

  • @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471

    @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Survival of the 'I didn't due today'"

  • @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471

    @matthhiasbrownanonionchopp3471

    2 жыл бұрын

    "Survival of the 'I didn't due today'"

  • @jinhuaofficial1608
    @jinhuaofficial1608 Жыл бұрын

    The thumbnail got me lmao now I am here but this was an enjoyable video

  • @bhavyagupta8195
    @bhavyagupta819511 ай бұрын

    Wow! I didn't expected reference to "his dark material" here!

  • @Petteri82
    @Petteri823 жыл бұрын

    Fun fact: Even if you are in bad shape or perhaps overweight, you are automatically one of the best long distance runners on the planet. Unless you aren't human, in which case your reading this is impressive.

  • @somestranger175

    @somestranger175

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd disagree. A 350 pound fatball can't walk 50 feet, let alone a mile or so. The human respiratory system is pathetic, it can't support weight. I'm ~185lbs at 5'8 and I can't run at maximum speed for more than 0.5 mile

  • @reubensenft1522

    @reubensenft1522

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@somestranger175 long distance runner, not long distance sprinter

  • @MannIchFindKeinName

    @MannIchFindKeinName

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@somestranger175 Sorry, but i disagree based on facts. edition.cnn.com/2017/05/05/health/turning-points-mirna-valerio/index.html Its just one example, didnt find my original example, but there are plenty of indigenous runners that are fat for western standards, doing more kilometers a day than i move with bus in a whole week (jeah, work is pretty close

  • @georgedunn320

    @georgedunn320

    3 жыл бұрын

    Good points all. Perhaps the image of a sumotori keeping up with a pronghorn is a bit ludicrous. It might be better to express "long distance runner" as "endurance predator." Though most quadripeds would leave humans in the dust in short races, our ancestors excelled in chases lasting several days, our only real challengers being the canids, particularly _lupus_ and _lycaon._ Upright bipedality means more of the musculature can be devoted to mobility as gravity is resisted by the bones; naked skin provided superior thermoregulation in hot climates; an omnivorous diet meant no need to spend hours browsing or grazing to restore energy and those peculiar primate feet (once well-toughened) could tackle a wide variety of terrain.

  • @reiverdaemon

    @reiverdaemon

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@somestranger175 Olympic level sprinters can't even maintain top speed in the 100m. Humans are about efficiency(endurance) not raw speed or strength.

  • @abnorman541
    @abnorman5413 жыл бұрын

    I, for one, welcome our new evolutionary superior Laser Zebra overlords.

  • @davegoldspink5354

    @davegoldspink5354

    3 жыл бұрын

    😂🤣😂👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

  • @emmagoff

    @emmagoff

    3 жыл бұрын

    Better that Boris!

  • @Chimailai

    @Chimailai

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@emmagoff why do you have to get political?

  • @emmagoff

    @emmagoff

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Chimailai it was just a comment made in humour, as was the comment I replied to. Don't let yourself get offended because none was meant 🙏

  • @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832

    @darthjarjarbinkstherealsit6832

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes.

  • @subscribetovadorcreations
    @subscribetovadorcreations4 ай бұрын

    i'll prove every single of these wrong by evolving them on me

  • @Wix_Mitwirth
    @Wix_Mitwirth Жыл бұрын

    In your examples of odd-numbered limbed animals the extra is the tail. Is a tail a limb? It's part of the spine, the trunk, not a branch off of the trunk. Since it's usually added on beyond the pelvis I suppose it still counts as an appendage. What's the name of that thing on the top of corn stalks?

  • @ninjaslash52_98
    @ninjaslash52_98 Жыл бұрын

    I think the flying fish is one such example of evolution taking it up a notch

  • @yellowstikbot6347

    @yellowstikbot6347

    8 ай бұрын

    I get it

  • @theraefication

    @theraefication

    2 ай бұрын

    and electric eels

  • @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube
    @StopChangingUsernamesYouTube3 жыл бұрын

    Let's just stare at bacterial flagella for a few hours and appreciate the one biological motor that does exist.

  • @DoofusSupreme

    @DoofusSupreme

    3 жыл бұрын

    Maybe the one biological rotor? But I feel like you could call any muscle a biological motor, in a way. They just don't create rotational motion

  • @zethwanner6755

    @zethwanner6755

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@DoofusSupreme muscles are pistons

  • @DoofusSupreme

    @DoofusSupreme

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zethwanner6755 true

  • @joshualuntsford

    @joshualuntsford

    3 жыл бұрын

    Lol. My wife works for a lab in Colorado. She’s a lab scientist and she talks about bacterial flagella almost everyday. I have no idea wha she’s talking about

  • @patrickhowden1601

    @patrickhowden1601

    3 жыл бұрын

    Smart comment. This yt guy “Its ok to be smart” LoL, doesn’t know about the flagella, otherwise he would have mentioned it. But then he would have to explain how it came about, and I don’t think he’s so smart that he could do that.

  • @Herodotus77
    @Herodotus777 ай бұрын

    I love this channel so much.

  • @amiraljrah1584
    @amiraljrah1584 Жыл бұрын

    Loving this show

  • @asandax6
    @asandax63 жыл бұрын

    Humans: Why hasn't evolution made zebras with Lasers. Evolution: You idiot I evolved you so you can make those things, Have you forgotten You are part of me?

  • @pomtubes1205

    @pomtubes1205

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wait, so evolution is god now? How the turn tables.

  • @gamingcreatesworlddd2425

    @gamingcreatesworlddd2425

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pomtubes1205 evolution is adaptation generation after generation for many years

  • @pomtubes1205

    @pomtubes1205

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gamingcreatesworlddd2425 I believe the earth is a cube. I don't comprehend.

  • @pomtubes1205

    @pomtubes1205

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Sir Slimy No... how can it be a donut if you can't eat it?

  • @YokoX23

    @YokoX23

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pomtubes1205 actually you can eat it, just not the whole thing.... And it's better to eat the junk growing on the surface.

  • @RocketJo86
    @RocketJo862 жыл бұрын

    You totally forgot to mention one curcially important thing on fitness: Fitness isn't determined by your survival rate, but by your reproduction. So going for something like Laser Zebras, it would be possible that a Zebra lives long enough to mate and give birth with a specific trait that may or may not lead to a laser organ in the long term. As long as their offspring can succsessfully mate and give birth again, the trait can be spread, solidified and further evolve over time. That's basically the reason, why hammer toes (hallux valgus) exist in humans or why we haven't outbred cancer or chorea huntington. The genes that lead to those phenotypes do so a bit after our reproduction age. People with the genetic dispositon for cancer or chorea huntington, f.e., can successfully produce offspring, as the "diseases" occur in their higher years (mid-thirties onwards). Hallux Valgus, with is a condition in which your biggest toe moves inward in a painful process, which may leave you unable to walk, if not treated, begins mostly after the menopause (or around the same time in men, but I think it's more common in women, correct me, if I'm wrong). But the trait can pass on and actually is about to solidify in certain lineages, as it doesn't lower your reproduction rate. And in this case, one offspring (or a set of non-phenotypically coding genes or a heterozygotous inheritance like albinism f.e.) is all evolution needs in the long run. Strange hands, which can become wings, however, won't necessarily lower your survival rate (as humans tend to keep those alive, who are close to them. Especially when they are helpful in other ways), but I can guess it would lower their reproduction rate, because how many people would mate with someone with bat-hands? Or as my biology professor once put it: Humans love strawberries. If there where one person to have strawberry-shaped, -colored and -tasting ears, it would have major sucess finding mates. So there would be some children with strawberry-ears, who in turn would have big success in finding mates and some generations onward, strawberry-ears would be a perfectly normal trait in humans. Evolution isn't logical, it isn't goal-oriented, but pretty situational and sometimes astonishingly complex.

  • @npc4416

    @npc4416

    Жыл бұрын

    good point but sadly only a few will read this 😔

  • @spicemelange8895

    @spicemelange8895

    Жыл бұрын

    Yess, thank you for pointing this out bc it's a crucial factor in the development of wings. Not many ppl would be excited to mate with someone who has an early phenotype for batwings, regardless of how cool the concept that their great grand kids might be able to fly. Unfortunately (or fortunately depending on your perspective) higher degrees of consciousness gets in the way of the evolutionary process when it comes to selective breeding. Granted, many animals out there share our disposition against mating with others who look very different than us species wise but I get the strong impression that such hesitance is exacerbated the more sentient and self aware you become. Especially once you factor In human notions of traditionalism/ religion that would make such action a social taboo

  • @jclive2860

    @jclive2860

    Жыл бұрын

    Yep, being able to reproduce the most means that you’re the fittest. That’s literally what survival of the fittest means in biology. Im ashamed many people think it means the animal is simply the strongest or the smartest.

  • @shientioh4865

    @shientioh4865

    Жыл бұрын

    So what your saying is that we need to make cancer happen earlier to phase it out of our dna

  • @LoverboyTousey

    @LoverboyTousey

    Жыл бұрын

    No sex for plebs!!!!

  • @StanleyWallice
    @StanleyWallice Жыл бұрын

    definitly invigorated with usefull information after watching this one! 👍

  • @alexdurgan7629
    @alexdurgan7629 Жыл бұрын

    Very interesting, a bit more subtle but a zebra could evolve a defensive horn .like a rhino, also used for unearthing roots for food.

  • @GroundThing
    @GroundThing3 жыл бұрын

    "Are snakes one limbed animals?" Please no. I didn't want to think about that today, and now I can't get it out of my head.

  • @keithfaulkner6319

    @keithfaulkner6319

    3 жыл бұрын

    Boas, pythons, and pipe snakes have rear limbs. They're just tiny, but they're there.

  • @KryssLaBryn

    @KryssLaBryn

    3 жыл бұрын

    it's okay; tails aren't *limbs* (even when they're used for propulsion); they're mobile extensions of the spine.

  • @khumokwezimashapa2245

    @khumokwezimashapa2245

    3 жыл бұрын

    The snakes are the limbs

  • @skknireeker9073

    @skknireeker9073

    3 жыл бұрын

    Is a head a limb? No snakes have no limbs, just body/torso and head

  • @GradientExe

    @GradientExe

    3 жыл бұрын

    take five snakes and put them together now you have the snake king

  • @heronb.4965
    @heronb.49653 жыл бұрын

    I swear the moment you said "aren't dolphins three-limbed animals?" my brain broke

  • @pseudodao7040

    @pseudodao7040

    3 жыл бұрын

    If you inhale glue before bed, your brain will seal back while you sleep.

  • @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

    @stefansauvageonwhat-a-twis1369

    3 жыл бұрын

    Some have 5!

  • @MarlowPreston

    @MarlowPreston

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pseudodao7040 Warning, side effects may include but are not limited to, clogged sinuses, coughing, difficulty breathing, and death.

  • @pseudodao7040

    @pseudodao7040

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@MarlowPreston so inhaling glue leads to covid? Whaaaat?

  • @Kurayamiblack

    @Kurayamiblack

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pseudodao7040 So that's what China was doing... No wonder they tried to hide it, that's embarrassing

  • @robertortiz-wilson1588
    @robertortiz-wilson15889 ай бұрын

    I like the ways you explain.

  • @alexmoon273
    @alexmoon2739 ай бұрын

    I feel like this is different for us because we get to decide to a large extent which traits get passed on due to most people being able to reproduce regardless of potential harmful traits. Hell we literally did it with dogs, food, bacteria, etc.

  • @miss-jerk175
    @miss-jerk1752 жыл бұрын

    You know I've never thought about human made technology like cars or wheels being under evolutionary pressure before, but that's totally what happens huh? It's why we don't use flip phones or beepers anymore, they were out competed by smart phones. It's a pretty interesting way to think about it

  • @orinblank2056

    @orinblank2056

    2 жыл бұрын

    Yeah the market is subject to similar pressures as life is

  • @danan9061

    @danan9061

    2 жыл бұрын

    Well flip phone is back because we realized it was actually awesome and now iys better since its also a smartphone

  • @SlyNine

    @SlyNine

    Жыл бұрын

    Not exactly. They don't replicate, so in this context it wouldn't make sense.

  • @mohammadsaleh1998

    @mohammadsaleh1998

    Жыл бұрын

    @@SlyNine yeah but they can be replcated

  • @lucyandecember2843

    @lucyandecember2843

    Жыл бұрын

    o.o

  • @transientaardvark6231
    @transientaardvark6231 Жыл бұрын

    Another factor you didn't mention is "brittleness" (I think a term coined by Dawkins) - your hands and my hands are not exactly the same shape, but we both have hands that are ok as hands. A wheel cannot get very far from being perfectly circular before it is essentially useless - my collection of slightly warped bike wheels attests to that. So quite apart from the issue of damage-in-use, the peak that they sit on in evolutionary space has almost vertical sides - too steep to plausibly climb. All that said, there are microbes that use what may be called wheels or propellers, because the physics at small scale gives evolution a slightly different landscape to play on.

  • @castonyoung7514

    @castonyoung7514

    7 ай бұрын

    Everything you just said is made up. Never tested by any experiment, just like most evolutionary theories. I guess you're going to make me get into all the ways the virtual simulations are useless now huh. Well, long story short by the time computers came around everybody had already made up their mind when it came to whether or not evolution was true. The only experiments that evolutionists cared about, were done to test whether or not computers could be used to simulate evolution, which they can (although I think the first study/studies actually failed). However, cartoon physics can also be simulated on a computer, it means nothing. Most evolution simulations that are made, simply aren't even considered finished until they simulate evolution. Ergo it's impossible that one could be used to determine that evolution is impossible since all of the problems have either been lessened or stripped away (for instance, by making every possible piece of genetic code equate to a functional neural network wherein only one or two triggers are needed to survive). I've wanted to make my own evolution simulator to actually test whether or not evolution is possible for a long time, unfortunately, it's one of those projects that appears to be too hard to ever get around to.

  • @DeFaulty101
    @DeFaulty10119 күн бұрын

    TL;DR, I explain how evolution could actually produce lazer zebras (2nd paragraph if low on time or patience). I can appreciate that answering all questions pertaining to the abilities of evolution with the appropriate degree of nuance is no small task. This is why I have always found it useful to employ what I call 'conjecturifics' or 'conjecturific language;' language denoting an appropriate degree of uncertainty, such as "perhaps" when you are giving one two possible explanations where you have no inclinations, "I suspect" when it is your prefered explanation but not by a wide margin, 'I am confident' when it *is* prefered by a wide margin (ideally for good reason), etc. You actually did a pretty decent job of this, but I have an objection. When discussing the 'zebras acquiring lazer weapons' being impossible because of the transitionary stages being less fit, you assume the only path is one where components of the weapon would be acquired one at a time, and the weapon would only be useful upon completion. In reality, this is not the only path. There is the evolutionary path taken, for example, by the camera / eye. The eye started as a bit of light-sensitive brain tissue. This enabled early acquatic animals to determine when a predator was approaching, because a small amount of light was penetrating their outer layers - just as we can still see some of the light when we cover a flashlight with our hands - and this light was now being obscured. Over time, the tissue covering this light sensitive brain-matter was lost, leaving these early eyes exposed. Over time, that brain tissue specialized for photon detection exclusively. Over time, eyes changed shape into a chamber (from which the word "camera" is derrived) with a pinhole through which light from different point sources would be mapped to specific photon receptors. Over time, eyes developed shutters, or irises, to change the size of the pinhole, enabling animals to focus on things near or distant. Zebras could evolve bio-luminescence, as so many animals have, if their environment changed to grant them an advantage for doing so. This bioluminescence could evolve into stronger bursts of light if, for example, their environment consisted of a single source of nutrients which were stunned when struck with a burst of light. Competition between this predator zebra and this prey animal might result in the prey becoming resistant to increasingly strong bursts of light, and zebras producing increasingly powerful bursts of light. There. That is how evolution could actually produce lazer zebras. I very much doubt this will ever happen, but it is not 'impossible in evolution.'

  • @kirandeepchakraborty7921
    @kirandeepchakraborty7921 Жыл бұрын

    Wow... Nicely Explained ❤

  • @gljames24
    @gljames242 жыл бұрын

    Actually, from what I've heard, they've found out our eyes actually benefit from the nerves routing backwards. There are fiberoptic like filaments that filter out a lot of the blue light that tends to dominate on the land. In the ocean you don't want to reduce the amount light because you take all you can get.

  • @robhacklblumstein
    @robhacklblumstein3 жыл бұрын

    "Why are there no giraffe-sized chickens?" Before about 66 million years ago, there were.

  • @clobre_

    @clobre_

    3 жыл бұрын

    copied comment

  • @yourprayersmeannothing

    @yourprayersmeannothing

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clobre_ copied reply

  • @wither5673

    @wither5673

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@clobre_ no one cares.

  • @lotfi2631
    @lotfi263111 ай бұрын

    My very first look at this channel and i'm welcome with "why tigers don't have wheels and lasers" followed by "it's okay to be smart" Grandpa once told that smart people will never say that they're smart , he'll always be right

  • @eddyyt7466

    @eddyyt7466

    11 ай бұрын

    Your English is slightly broken and I can’t understand what you mean by this comment

  • @LineOfThy
    @LineOfThy Жыл бұрын

    mulefa are probably my favorite part of His Dark Materials. They look so different from us yet they blend so naturally.

  • @comedyfriendsenglish
    @comedyfriendsenglish3 жыл бұрын

    Dodos going extinct is the top 1 saddest death in anime

  • @valinorean4816

    @valinorean4816

    3 жыл бұрын

    no that's reserved for dinos and pterosaurs

  • @annedrieck7316

    @annedrieck7316

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@valinorean4816 also trilobites and sea reptiles

  • @valinorean4816

    @valinorean4816

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@annedrieck7316 and ammonites

  • @asiantom4935

    @asiantom4935

    3 жыл бұрын

    my dad went extinct

  • @raufanega7345

    @raufanega7345

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@asiantom4935 I'M SORRY FOR YOU

  • @dermenschistweilesglaubtda41
    @dermenschistweilesglaubtda413 жыл бұрын

    we just need to keep playing "the floor is lava" this will be the selection pressure that we have to adapt to AND WE WILL FLY

  • @zerospeed1498

    @zerospeed1498

    3 жыл бұрын

    @Smit Shilpatul facts

  • @bronbust4797

    @bronbust4797

    3 жыл бұрын

    We can just make a competitive sport for flying and only the hindret best people are allowed to mate. Just making evolution artificial.

  • @sapateirovalentin348

    @sapateirovalentin348

    3 жыл бұрын

    YAYYY EUGENISM ! WOOOOOOO!!!

  • @Vi-pv3xi

    @Vi-pv3xi

    3 жыл бұрын

    There is something called genetic engineering. It is much faster than evolution or artificial selection. Maybe we can reduce the density of human bones and reduce or eliminate fat tissue so that humans weight is decreased. And also maybe we can strengthen our chest muscle through genetic engineering. And then we don't need to genetic engineer the wings. Just put artificial wings on and then you are ready to fly. But remember kids the answer to "Is this ethical?" is "Yes".

  • @JustAlex96

    @JustAlex96

    3 жыл бұрын

    We would just go back to regular ole monkeys who are very good at climbing things :(

  • @Natu_Visu
    @Natu_Visu10 ай бұрын

    8:00 In certain cases, you *can* move downhill. If there are changes to the animal's habitat that make certain features useless, they can begin to de-evolve, or evolve into something else, as it is more efficient to not grow the unneeded features, or to turn them into something useful.

  • @IxiaClover
    @IxiaClover Жыл бұрын

    i reckon you could get natural wheels on an animal by some process where the wheel grows as hard dead skin such as nails, hair etc then because it's dead it falls off the axel, thus being able to turn on it... but you're right about it not necessarily being a useful trait especially as tarmac roads are hardly natural occurrences

  • @stefanospinelli9636
    @stefanospinelli96363 жыл бұрын

    Me and my homies: "why animals have no wheels???" The smart guy: "well, to start you should know that in Mesopotamia they used to have chariots..."

  • @Spacebar33

    @Spacebar33

    3 жыл бұрын

    Genuinely funny

  • @ClemensAlive
    @ClemensAlive3 жыл бұрын

    Ok, so why is my body evolving a fat belly for me? That's clearly a loss in fitness. :(

  • @bencui1045

    @bencui1045

    3 жыл бұрын

    Because evolution didn’t account for excess food. Weight loss programs or just living with some belly fat are deemed “good enough” for humans to survive.

  • @zukodude487987

    @zukodude487987

    3 жыл бұрын

    We evolved in a food scarce environment and we have only had an abundance of food for the last 100 years so we have not had enough time to adapt to this new age of abundance.

  • @jarzez

    @jarzez

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@zukodude487987 An important thing to note here is that we most likely never will adapt to it either. At least not naturally. Basically we have created a society which doesn't actually require the human race's fitness to increase. The trend would logically even be the opposite, a decrease instead. Because in the society we have created normally the "lower class" births a lot more children than the more successful "upper class" families. Therefore over time increasing the prevalence of genes that actually don't "succeed" as well in our society (career wise and such).

  • @pcmasterracetechgod5660

    @pcmasterracetechgod5660

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jarzez There is no need to adapt, if people used their brains that we've evolved so much, they wouldn't become obese and would work out, be healthy, and live longer lives. We already have evolved in terms of nutrition, it's people's own will and decisions that leads to obesity, not a flaw in evolution

  • @jarzez

    @jarzez

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@pcmasterracetechgod5660 Well, I dont necessarily disagree with you that people are overall not thinking about the health consequences enough. But you can easily argue that it is our current state of evolution that causes the majority of population to live unhealthy lives and make unhealthy decision. It's not like evolution and our decisions are unrelated, quite the opposite. Our brain is simply not evolved to naturally make healthy life choices in our current society. If it was, then we wouldnt have obesity for example.

  • @critic9
    @critic99 ай бұрын

    So this is how evo firecracker came out 👏 👏 I now know that goblins will soon start shooting lasers

  • @PokemonJacob-vi2li

    @PokemonJacob-vi2li

    3 ай бұрын

    What kind of clash Royale nerf miner-esque meme comment is this?

  • @ztoogemcducc6360
    @ztoogemcducc63603 ай бұрын

    I think I know how to solve the disconnected wheel issue. A lot of animals grow things that fall off or get discarded. For example species of deer shed their horns, sharks lose and regrow teeth, reptiles molt. A wheeled animal could be possible if the wheel starts as a connected growth but after a certain point falls off. The key is that the wheel is grown around a central structure so once it does detatch it can spin around that.

  • @dougthedonkey1805
    @dougthedonkey18053 жыл бұрын

    “You can’t evolve anything that reduces your fitness” Babirusa: hold my beer

  • @MrIrrationalSmith

    @MrIrrationalSmith

    3 жыл бұрын

    Type 1 diabetes: hold my insulin

  • @gorilladisco9108

    @gorilladisco9108

    3 жыл бұрын

    The fitness theory is flawed. Evolution is about ability to survive, not ability to excel. As long as a mutation does not kill before the mutant can breed, the evolution happens. Your babirusa example is one that refute that theory. Another example is the sickle cell mutation in Sub Saharan people. Both made the mutants less fit.

  • @dougthedonkey1805

    @dougthedonkey1805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gorilladisco9108 the sickle cell mutation is actually to combat malaria. As a recessive gene, it offers protection at the risk of your children possibly dying if your partner has the gene as well. Instead of nearly 100% of your children dying from malaria, about 25% will have both genes and die, about 50% will have one out of two and be malaria-resistant while also not displaying sickle cell anemia, and about 25% will not have any anemia genes and will likely die of malaria. I’m sure there’s more at play than just the Eighth Grade Punnet Square™, but this is a simplified version of what happens that gets the point across well enough

  • @gorilladisco9108

    @gorilladisco9108

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@dougthedonkey1805 It indeed made the mutant less fit than the normal version of the species.

  • @dougthedonkey1805

    @dougthedonkey1805

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gorilladisco9108 did you read what I said?

  • @MidnightSt
    @MidnightSt3 жыл бұрын

    People for evolution of human wings: give evolution a reason; Make floor actual lava!

  • @sumreensultana1860

    @sumreensultana1860

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or just Code it into our DNA

  • @Eldritch-1

    @Eldritch-1

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@sumreensultana1860 Crispr-9 is going to make it possible.. soon, all the old fools need to go die off first though.

  • @xRakanishu

    @xRakanishu

    3 жыл бұрын

    Then everyone dies because that's not how evolution works

  • @The_Blue_Otaku

    @The_Blue_Otaku

    3 жыл бұрын

    imagen if the next stage of humans evolved with monkey tails... what I'm just Saiyan ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @cerobalam

    @cerobalam

    3 жыл бұрын

    Or make a vehicle to counter lava.

  • @christopherchilton-smith6482
    @christopherchilton-smith64829 ай бұрын

    Would've loved to see an aside for how genetic drift can modify the path being taken on the fitness landscape.

  • @colpul2103
    @colpul21034 күн бұрын

    Talk to me in 50-100 years when we get this CRISPR thing fully sorted. Wings we will have.

  • @TheAutobotPower
    @TheAutobotPower3 жыл бұрын

    *Fish with propellers is impossible* 200 millions years in the future: Flish.

  • @NurseSnow2U

    @NurseSnow2U

    3 жыл бұрын

    Hmm...is your username coincidental?! Tell us what you know!!! 🤣🤣🤣

  • @BJCMXY

    @BJCMXY

    3 жыл бұрын

    Those are fish with wings...entirely different dynamic... "The Future is Wild" was a fun thought experiment.

  • @BJCMXY

    @BJCMXY

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@greenxmango8049 Technically they already exist, but they lack the genetic mutation accumulations to become what is outlined in that short series... also, if you're logging into things with the same email on multiple services, & don't have privacy settings that tell the various data loggers to ignore you, then obviously you're going to find a lot more "coincidental" things as it's financially appealing to those that employ the data loggers, since they get rewarded for snooping & suggesting. I know Firefox isn't the best browser out there in terms of resource management, but it certainly does a decent job of blocking those data loggers when surfing the internet. For the apps that you use, many have an opt-out section.

  • @korniminorni780

    @korniminorni780

    3 жыл бұрын

    actually laughed out loud

  • @Usual_User

    @Usual_User

    3 жыл бұрын

    Oh yes, of course.. the FLISH

  • @faesommers
    @faesommers3 жыл бұрын

    the phrase “forbidden phenotypes” is just so funny to me

  • @Malaima

    @Malaima

    3 жыл бұрын

    it is! it is like forbidden pleasures but in a deliciously quirky because naughty-intelligent way!

  • @smaakjeks

    @smaakjeks

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like a prog rock band

  • @yoboijerry5519

    @yoboijerry5519

    3 жыл бұрын

    Most of this vid is fake Christ is the answer, if there was evaluation how come there are still monkeys

  • @smaakjeks

    @smaakjeks

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yoboijerry5519 If Americans descended from British colonists, how come there are still British people?

  • @SuperDUD66

    @SuperDUD66

    3 жыл бұрын

    Sounds like the overpowered skins all of the anime cast is aiming for.

  • @brandonshelp4682
    @brandonshelp46829 ай бұрын

    This is super fun, because I'm trying to mentally justify how these things could evolve 😂

  • @devilsstrikegaming8695
    @devilsstrikegaming86953 ай бұрын

    1. Evolution can definitely give wings if mutation happen, it will surely be of membrane than feathers. 2. Evolution can also make fish propellors but it will likely be a muscular than of metal. 3. Evolution can definitely make 5 legged cat through mutation. 4. Giraffes size chicken is really possible, U already know them as Non avian Dinosaurs. 5. Wheel is possible in evolution but it will most likely be made of Keratin than living cells. 6. Zebra with lazers is possible in evolution as we all know luminosity is possible biologically cause we already have fireflies, but fighting lazers r not possible which includes very very high amount of metabolic rate.

  • @denaamisdaan
    @denaamisdaan3 жыл бұрын

    In Dutch we don’t say ‘Roly poly’, we say ‘Piss beds’ and I think that’s beautiful ❤️

  • @JVJF7

    @JVJF7

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pissy beds*

  • @panhandlesomen

    @panhandlesomen

    3 жыл бұрын

    Still bruh moment

  • @NurseSnow2U

    @NurseSnow2U

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yikes on bikes I love it.

  • @daviddavids2884

    @daviddavids2884

    3 жыл бұрын

    in american, i grew up calling them potato bugs (which is not, what a lot of other folks would call a potato bug; then, pill bug. now, wood louse. googletranslate

  • @reeyy0909

    @reeyy0909

    3 жыл бұрын

    P i s s b e d

  • @matias6449
    @matias64493 жыл бұрын

    "plant eating snakes" I thought he was talking about plants that eat snakes lol. that would be dope

  • @rolfs2165

    @rolfs2165

    3 жыл бұрын

    Pitcher plants can do that - if a snake happens to fall into them.

  • @Xelaria

    @Xelaria

    3 жыл бұрын

    The plant would not be a vegetarian then.

  • @MrKfleong

    @MrKfleong

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@Xelaria and there is some plants that are carnivorous, thank evolution

  • @gabor6259

    @gabor6259

    3 жыл бұрын

    Venus flytrap.

  • @misterskeleton_yt7854

    @misterskeleton_yt7854

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@gabor6259 a native organism of venus

  • @kamo7293
    @kamo7293 Жыл бұрын

    5:16 this is what I though of when I saw the video title and thumbnail. what kind of environment would be necessary for zebras to develop lasers?

  • @sarenarterius6217
    @sarenarterius62177 ай бұрын

    What is impossible in evolution? Nothing. You only need the correct evolution stone and a couple of good TM's.

  • @Sciencerely
    @Sciencerely3 жыл бұрын

    As a stem cell biologist, I think there are many crazy evolutionary processes which might seem impossible. We have ancient "viruses" in our DNA called transposons which can change their location, thereby destroying genes and contributing towards cancer. So naturally we have developed mechanisms to inactivate them (by modifying their DNA sequences). But our cells also use parts of transposons to control the activity of genes and also turn a lot of transposons on during our early development to form the embryo (I made a video about this). Of course, all of that is highly beneficial but also super crazy!

  • @funkyflames7430

    @funkyflames7430

    3 жыл бұрын

    “As a...” As a committed scholar to philosophy (I am not), I say that this is quite pointless to say. Sure, this may add credibility, but only if you provide proof that you are a stem cell biologist, and then why does this matter much to the vague clause that followed it? Additionally, a lot of people will say the same thing as you, but they won’t add this dependent clause, but the target audience will believe either way. Rather than stating your authority, simply provide sources and other ways to verify and explore your section of biology, as you did do - it can’t be taken to be condescending and helps readers verify information - because even scientists can screw up, accidentally, and can just be wrong, so removing this clause at the beginning removes this feeling of sovereignty over knowledge. I understand that you are, hopefully, soon to be a doctor and attempting to advertise your channel, but I would suggest just to be more direct.

  • @ragnell27

    @ragnell27

    3 жыл бұрын

    How did our cells evolve the ability to do that?

  • @zoeydeu2261

    @zoeydeu2261

    3 жыл бұрын

    @LifeLabLearner do transposons get activated by poor lifestyle choices? Or does their change in location happen randomly?

  • @dennoux6239

    @dennoux6239

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@funkyflames7430 you're overanalysing it lmaoo

  • @jx995

    @jx995

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@funkyflames7430 rough day?

  • @Velyurjoin
    @Velyurjoin7 ай бұрын

    "Can you smell what the rock is cooking" 💀💀💀

  • @weallstilldie

    @weallstilldie

    7 ай бұрын

    I don’t get it 🙃

  • @Velyurjoin

    @Velyurjoin

    7 ай бұрын

    Get out of my comment section@@weallstilldie

  • @clemensbock7434
    @clemensbock74349 ай бұрын

    As a German I am quite happy the Trabbi was featured!

  • @ryokajimosensei2780
    @ryokajimosensei27803 жыл бұрын

    Still waiting for a legit dragon to evolve itself to reality

  • @yachiyous9110

    @yachiyous9110

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'd say a flying reptile would be a good start, just add some snout, make it stand a bit upright and increase the size. Maybe add a skunk or bombardier beetle defense mechanism on its mouth for the fire breathing effect

  • @jackmcavaney6565

    @jackmcavaney6565

    3 жыл бұрын

    Aye yo we got draco lizards look them up they are sick as hell the lil homies got wings

  • @NurseSnow2U

    @NurseSnow2U

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jackmcavaney6565 they do be having wings though. But their size makes them sort of adorable. Multiply that by like x100 and shits gonna get really real, really fast 🤣

  • @maxthexpfarmer3957

    @maxthexpfarmer3957

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's very difficult for a genuinely large and strong animal to fly.

  • @rasmuswi

    @rasmuswi

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yachiyous9110 I'd say one of the real obstacles for true fire-breathing would be producing some adequate amounts of some combustible substance. Not impossible, but it would require lots of energy, so the animal would have to eat LOTS of food. That fire would basically have to help the animal to find lots of food to be viable.

  • @duderyandude9515
    @duderyandude95152 жыл бұрын

    1:49 I like the idea of a young Joe having nightmares wherein he sleep-talks and says “No wheelies! Biology doesn’t allow for members of the animal kingdom to have wheels. It’s scientifically impossible! Ah!”

  • @brodriguez11000

    @brodriguez11000

    2 жыл бұрын

    Bacteria rotate their flagella.

  • @maciekzieba8707

    @maciekzieba8707

    2 жыл бұрын

    Lol I dont have to "unroll" my arm I can keep swinging it in one direction

  • @Shadowbaneado

    @Shadowbaneado

    19 күн бұрын

    It isn't a wheel​@@brodriguez11000

  • @CMZneu
    @CMZneu3 ай бұрын

    16:36 There are fresh water corals, idk about whole reefs though(edit: sorry i was thinking sponges lol no fresh water corals sadly). Not snakes but i think there is a type of sharks that eats a whole bunch of seagrass or something like that with is pretty neat.

  • @lukewillett1151
    @lukewillett115122 күн бұрын

    "Absolute unit" to describe the alien elephant is so funny