Speciation: Of Ligers & Men - Crash Course Biology #15
Hank explains speciation - the evolutionary process by which new biological species arise - in terms of finches, ligers, mules, and dogs. Crash Course Biology is ...
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You and me? We've got some stuff in common. More in common than, say, you and my dogs Lemon and Abby here. For starters, you and I are probably the same species. And Lemon and Abby are dogs, which is a different species. As you may have guessed by now, this video is going to be about species! But at the very end, we're going to talk about dogs. So hang in there, because the puppies are coming. Before we bust out the puppies, let's talk about people. Our species, Homo Sapiens, is the single remaining member of the genus Homo. Our buddies Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis and Homo Neanderthalensis bought the farm a long time ago. So these days, all us Homo sapiens are pretty different from even our closest living relatives in the animal Kingdom, the chimps and bonobos. Hu...
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You and me? We've got some stuff in common. More in common than, say, you and my dogs Lemon and Abby here. For starters, you and I are probably the same species. And Lemon and Abby are dogs, which is a different species. As you may have guessed by now, this video is going to be about species! But at the very end, we're going to talk about dogs. So hang in there, because the puppies are coming. Before we bust out the puppies, let's talk about people. Our species, Homo Sapiens, is the single remaining member of the genus Homo. Our buddies Homo Erectus and Homo Habilis and Homo Neanderthalensis bought the farm a long time ago. So these days, all us Homo sapiens are pretty different from even our closest living relatives in the animal Kingdom, the chimps and bonobos. Hu...
