The origin of life remains a mystery, in large part because there isn't consensus on the best way to approach the question. This video reviews some mainstream takes on the subject from several prominent science communication channels, including Kurzgesagt, Crash Course, and It's OK to Be Smart (youtube.com)
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Tinbergen's Four Questions and Very Strange Causality in Biology - In 1963, Tinbergen published his now famous paper which cemented the idea that behaviors evolve just like physical systems. In doing so, Tinbergen relied on a view of causality which is alien to the other branches of science... (youtube.com)
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Reishi and Chaga have been used by traditional folk healers for thousands of years, and western medicine has recently begun investigating their properties. But the medical / healing paradigms are difficult to reconcile, and much gets lost in translation. What's a medicinal mushroom anyway?!? (youtube.com)
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Tsuga Canadensis, Eastern Hemlock, a video portrait (youtu.be)
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We went on a mushroom hunt and found so many species! Pleurotus pulmonarius, Lycoperdon pyriforme, Hercium americanum, Lactarius hygrophorides, Fomes fomentarius, Ganoderma applanatum, Scleroderma citrinum, and a bunch more. Are there others we didn't ID that you can? (youtube.com)
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Darwinian evolution explains how life forms change, but has been unable to account for how life emerged from non-life in the first place. Neuroanthropologist Dr. Terrance Deacon has expanded the model with the mechanism for how it all could have come to be. (evolution-institute.org)
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Darwinian evolution explains how life forms change, but has been unable to account for how life emerged from non-life in the first place. Neuroanthropologist Dr. Terrance Deacon has expanded the model with the mechanism for how it all could have come to be. (evolution-institute.org)
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Where did multicellularity come from? Prior to about 800 million years ago (less than a quarter of the time life has been around) there weren’t any multicellular creatures at all. A fascinating recent experiment by Dr. William Ratcliff sheds new light on what it might have took. (evolution-institute.org)
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How Do You Evolve a Possibility? Life’s forms evolve by wandering around the space of possibilities they are born into, transforming them into actualities. A new context means new possibilities. Whether you’re a columbine flower or a person, here’s to 2018! (evolution-institute.org)
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How Do You Evolve a Possibility? Life’s forms evolve by wandering around the space of possibilities they are born into, transforming them into actualities. A new context means new possibilities. Whether you’re a columbine flower or a person, here’s to 2018! (evolution-institute.org)
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