Every Animal In Your DNA

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You are the living ancestor of an unbroken chain of lives stretching from you, through your mother and your grandmother all the way back through the complete history of life on planet Earth to the very first life forms that appeared around four billion years ago.

#naturalhistory #DomainOfScience

More info and links:
Times humans nearly became extinct
Bottlenecks of human population
Animal Ancestors illustration
Timeline of the evolutionary history of life on Earthh
Early sponge
List of phylogeny of human ancestors
Acorn worm genes shared with humans

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So basically if I never have kids, I'll be the first failure of my entire ancestral lineage spanning back nearly 4 billion years....No pressure xD

matthewtheobald

"You are connected to eons and eons of creatures all fighting for survival and WINNING."
Great motivational quote there.

coolfer

mistake at 0:07 ; should be "You are the living Descendant" not "Living Ancestor"!

garrethbayethe

The real crazy part is that life somehow formed from inert elements basically because carbon acts like glue.

warren

So.. one of my ancestors was a sponge...

TheHalawaniTube

A counter thought to this video is the Anthropic Principle, where the only reason you can appreciate that you are the end of a chain of life is because you are one of the alive ones. All the creatures that don't exist cannot contemplate their non-existence. I like the Anthropic Principle but thought that it might undermine the 'mind blowing' part of this video but I don't think it does because even though it is true, it is not scientifically useful.

Because we know a lot about our evolutionary history we can look at it and see all of the places where the path to humanity was nearly wiped out, or where seemingly improbable events happened like the formation of the first complex cells or evolving multicellularity. So I think our evolutionary journey is still incredible despite it having to exist for me to appreciate it.

domainofscience

I was expecting at least a few millions of views. This channel is just too great of an opportunity to be missed by anyone.

evanzhao

Wanted to watch this video for educational purposes… but this honestly made me feel so much more grateful for my life and to stop taking all the other lucky humans I meet/live here for granted.. as we are all very lucky to be alive.

eryntodd

Wow, this channel is so informative and answers plenty of my complex questions. Great work!

israhassan

What a great explanation. I’ve been reading about this subject for many years, and this vid summarizes it in a few minutes. Of course, it’s incomplete and simple. But how can one ask more in such a short time. Subscribed.

desiderata

Just want to say that I watched a Ted talk you did awhile back and you mentioned you made YouTube videos so I looked you up and I have watched so many of these. They are absolutely fantastic. I love the animations and the way you neatly explain topics that are fundamental to science. I am an astrophysics major in college and often find myself wondering about recent discoveries (like the gravitational waves) and I find you explain these things in such an immaculate way. So thank you.

ryankirby

Please make more Map videos! They are just amazing, one of the most interesting educational videos i have seen in a while.

andersonmyguy

Once again, great video and poster! I ordered 9 posters this morning, but I think I need to get this one as well!

dcterr

Great video ! I can only imagine the amount of work put in to draw all the animals, impressive ! It may have been interesting to stretch the picture to scale, maybe for a future video ?

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