Years ago, back in 2021/2022, I worked for Matt and did the research for the update of this chart. I am very happy to finally get to see the end result. He even added a picture of my pet rabbit for the rabbit on the chart. I t was a great job working for Matt, and I absolutely love getting to see this chart finally.
Honestly if you just used this video to replace the second half of the first lecture in 95 percent of level 1 undergraduate biology classes in the English speaking world it would be a net positive. Thanks for everything you do with this channel.
@@photinodecay I reckon the amount of biology jargon would make it unsuited for language-learning purposes. Of course, many ESL countries require English fluency from university onward (like mine), so it should still be well-suited in that regard.
@@GoldenBeholden right, the amount of Latin terms in the jargon makes English speaking mostly irrelevant, which is why I think there is no issue with English being the student's native language.
17:21 That's not why starfish (and all other echinoderms) are bilaterally symmetrical. They're bilateral in the larval stage of their life cycle, but when they settle down on the seafloor, they develop their adult bodies; the larval left side becomes the adult underside, where the mouth is (except in crinoids) and the larval right side becomes the adult overside, where the anus is (except in brittle stars). Adult echinoderms usually have 5-segmented radial symmetry, where their body parts repeat every 72 degrees you travel around the centre of the organism.
Even if they weren't bilateral at any stage of their lives, they would still be considered part of Bilateria because they have an ancestor that was bilateral and was part of said group. That's what ultimately matters the most.
Your ability to arrange so much complex information is a beautiful thing, plus walking us through the chart is so engaging, I'm very excited for the rest of this series!
A small correction/clarification about starfish: they are considered members of Bilateria because of their evolutionary ancestry, not because of their adult body symmetry. Starfish belong to the phylum Echinodermata (also includes sea urchins and sea cucumbers), and during their larval stage, they exhibit this bilateral symmetry. Later in development, they undergo metamorphosis into their adult form, which is radially symmetrical. Despite this change, their classification in Bilateria reflects their evolutionary history and developmental patterns, rather than their adult morphology.
Just as the video was saying, "the tree that connects every loving thing," I turned to my dog and said, "it's your family tree, too. And mine." He looked at me like, "weirdo." Too bad for him, I get to pick what TH-cam plays.
This is the most thorough discussion of the Tree of Life I have ever stumbled upon outside the Biologi classroom. Amazing job making this available for free on youtube, I will be buying some of each chart to hang in the classrooms at my college :) Minor nidpick: Adult starfish does not have bilatteral symmetry, but radial symmetry. They have the mouth on the bottom and the pooper on top, and for the starfish in the picture is therefore pentaradial. They are clearly bilatterally symmetrical in the larval stages and their close Echinodermata relatives Sea Urchins and Sea Cucumbers are also closer to bilateral symmetri so they clearly belong in this group but is a good example of how we humans want nature to fit in nice little boxes and nature just shitting on our need for order :D
AronRa has a 50 part series (Systematic Classification of Life) that does basically this same thing. It's broken up into 7-11 minutes videos where the last quarter of the videos (starting around the Primate clade) are a bit longer. He's since made some mini series spinoffs (each named after their clades of focus) going further into Ophidia, Arachnomorpha, and Whippomorpha whose videos are 20-40 minutes each.
@@zecuse I am glad someone did this, because I was going to write the same. BTW, Clint's Reptiles is another person to look up, he has a video explaining why birds are reptiles because of evolutionary clades. However, on Aron Ra... Aron Ra's the guy who had a huge series of him and Kent Hovid going back and fourth. It got to the point where the last video all Aron Ra was copy and paste past video responses to prove Kent never changes. Kent then ran a series called "Whack the Atheist" where he attacked people like SciManDan (who normally tackles flat earthers), his still attacking Dan to this day. He also attacked Genetically Modified Skeptic, a former follower of his, who was disappointed by Kent's childishness towards him when he used to worship Kent as a hero. This should sum up Kent Hovid in a nutshell... The Aron Ra versus Kent back and fourth makes your brain rot, Kent has nothing intelligent to say for himself and ignores everything people correct him on. You can watch his videos from the 80s, and he still says word for word what he did in the 80s even now.
I want to tell you all something. One year ago, if you asked me if I would ever accept evolution as a coherent scientific theory, I'd call you insane. But back in November 2023, something happened that made me want to debunk evolution once and for all. And since I thought I had a pretty good grip on science at the time, I thought I could do it. But I failed in about a month. But I learned to reconcile my faith with evolution, and I am still very much a Christian. If you are a creationist and watching this video, just know that you can be a Christian and accept basic scientific principles like evolution, since Evolution does not contradict the Gospel.
Evolution, and by "Evolution" I mean Darwinism (for its quite clear that God made his creation with the ability to adapt to changes in the environment), is contradictory to the Scriptures.. for its either God CREATED or "by chance" things "evolved"... I don't have enough faith to believe the latter, hence I'll die a "Creationist", believing that "in the beginning, God CREATED the heaven and the earth".. Darwinism has been used by many to "justify" many of the evils which God clearly condemns in the Scriptures.. Believe what you will... but because of this, we MUST separate.. Job 35: 10 But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night; 11 who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth, and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
@@Logan_Bishop_YTwell, hello there fellow human of the "mankind", if you're not an "AI" can you confirm that you can see my other comments? Especially the one I made as to Why I don't agree with you?
I had a sibling growing up that had a lot of aquariums with different types of fishes or reptiles. Two aquariums had lungfish in them. It was pretty cool.
Having only ever taken one science course--intro to botany in 1967--but being seriously fascinated by evolution and natural sciences more generally, and having sort of read and watched many explanations of evolution, this may be the simplest and clearest I've yet come upon. Thank you for posting this. Now I'm headed over to your sales site!
Better to say that our UNDERSTANDING of it evolves as new evidence accumulates that enable finer distinctions to be made about where the "branching" occurs in the "Tree"
So, we are descended from sponges that weren't good at being sponges, and our cousins who remained sponges were just much better at being sponges than our ancestors.
I think I agree with what you’re saying lol. Based on what I know, I think it would be more accurate to say that wasps broke off from the tree first (so yes, bees and ants are more related to each other). This gets slightly complicated though since there are some wasps that are typically considered to be more closely related to bees and ants than other wasps (there were multiple branches from the tree). But yes, assuming I understand what you mean. I got confused by the word “nest”
But there are many bigger mistakes than that the one with bees and wasps.. those are all simplifications necessary simply because the whole tree should fit into one chart and important for humans groups are shown
When I saw this on my recommended my eyes went wide and I dropped everything to check it out. I love the history and sociology videos, but biology is my JAM and I'm so excited that this is a series now.
When you do the plant video, can you cover CAM respiration, euphorbia vs cacti convergent evolution, bromeliads adaptations to absorbing water, tillandsias too but that’s different, bananas, mono vs dicots, grasslands, any animals that helped/coevolved (one I can think of is giant sloths and avocados), ficus family (especially mangroves), coconuts/palms+cycads and ginkgos. Thank you, i loved this video, I just love plants a lot and think those are fun topics.
I really gotta say you guys knocked it out of the park with the animations here. Can't wait for the whole series because I intend to come by your physical location to buy copies of the poster for my ecology company, then I can send them the videos!
Professor Matt Baker has founded a TH-cam University, and I'm taking every course. It's just great. It's never been so much fun to learn something new just by looking at a chart. 🧡
Wow what great timing! I just got my new office and wanted this poster (or the older version) as a nice reminder for my Ev Psych research. Now I get a new version and get to look forward to a new series!
A clade is the last common ancestor and all of its descendants. Fish, by this definition, must also include tetrapods, because you cannot evolve out of a clade.
That was incredibly interesting. You have explained so much and filled in so many of the blanks that now I feel more confident in my grasp of this subject!
Wohooooooo I’ve been wondering if you gonna make an update video since the archaea finding Ofc you did but even better, you came with a whole new series 🙌🏻👏🏻
This was really good. My only minor gripe would be the exclusion of the Placoderms, the prehistoric armored fish that included animals such as Dunkleosteus and Bothriolepis. Some scientist speculate that the placoderms were the ancestors to both bony fish and cartilaginous fish. Irregardles if that's the case or they're simple an off shoot of the first jawed animals they are still important for the understanding of early vertebrate evolution.
Brilliantly done. I just had to hit subscribe and can't wait to watch the next installments. I am soaking this all in like a sponge, which, it seems, is an ancestor of ours. Like father like son I guess? OK, skip that. Still great job and thank you.
Thank you so much! This video basically sums up one semester of Zoology:) I’m writing my exam next week and was looking for an overview like this. Even considered making one myself, so this video is just amazing! It all makes sense now!🫶
I’ve been obsessed with the tree of life since my bio anthropology class in college. I created my own massive tree of life, though mine was just brackets with no pictures
The recent research on spontaneous RNA like protein strings shows how easy life started. It may even be starting on new paths all the time, meaning it's constant appearance may be a source of mutation or new evolution.
Matt, Do you ever het outside or visit a park? I dont know how you do, using all of your time to make charts❤thank you for putting them together for us. 😸
Great video! I have a genuine question. Why is the Asgard super-phylum between the domain and the kingdom? I mean, the taxonomical hierarchy is so: Domain>Kingdom>phylum. So "super-phylum" should be between kingdom and phylum, and not between the domain and kingdom. Is there something that I'm missing?
@@Dr.Ian-Plect ok what’s your response to the fact that you can’t evolve out of a clade? I only know this bc I learnt it from a biologist, so I’d be interested to hear a dissenting opinion
@@Dr.Ian-Plect as far as my understanding goes, there are bony fish, and some animals that it wouldn’t make sense to exclude from any category including all fish diverged from the rest before mammals did, so any group including all fish has to include all mammals, so humans would be fish. Either that or the word fish has to be referring to (at least) two groups that are separated on the evolutionary tree by, among other things, humans.
very cool video, one thing tho, can you update the chart so that it would highlight the key evolutionary aspect of each life form? like mouth forming first or bones vs shell, central nervous system, stuff like that
At 12:19 you mentioned Convegent Evolution, I'm no Biologist, but pretty much everything shown on your chart down the Bilateria branch has eyes or light sensing receptors of some sort. I get the impression like Octopi inherited their eyes.
Beautiful charts and informative presentation. In a new book published by Austin Macauley Publishers titled From Chemistry to Life on Earth which outlines abiogenesis in great detail with a solution to the evolution of the genetic code and the ribosome as well as the cell in general the author concludes that LUCA and FUCA are mythical prokaryotes that are the result of convergent biochemical evolution in the use of the universal genetic code and had great divergence in other aspects of their biochemistry ie cell membrane composition, energy sources, pores and polymerases. 290 references, 50 illustrations and several information tables with a proposed molecular natural selection formula with a worked example for ATP. The genetic code is still evolving to this day on a geological time scale.
Why not building a Wikipedia type of system for all the different branches with the possibility to zoom in and out and tell a specific story on demand. Nevertheless, I love your work - very important and very entertaining- thank you!
I’ve always been fascinated about evolution, and learning about how is an exciting endeavor to learn how life changes and diversifies. The “tree of life” chart works wonders in explaining just how complex (and perplexing) evolution can be.
While I love the new chart, there's one thing I wish was more prominently painted out: That Carnivora splits into cat-likes and dog-likes, with each of those represented by the respective popular pet.
To be entirely honest, I went back-and-forth between the two around 0:40 and the previous one looks a bit better (more like blooming flowers and less like a puzzle game) - though of course the updated contents are more important. PS: Your Shipping policy (when viewed from the EU) states that shipping to continental Europe costs $14. Since you are based in Vancouver ('Vancouver store'), is that Canadian dollars? Or is that in USD like specified for the posters? I'm not sure if you are shipping from the US or from Canada. And your poster sizes are 24x36 and 32x48, both are missing units on the site. You mention in the video that they are in inches, so they are 61x91 and 81x122? Or are the inches approximate and are they nice round 60x90 and 80x120?
It only makes sense once we get past the bacteria part, into recognisable types of things. From there we can see adaptation. Prior to this it's a educated guess with time being the hero of the plot . Not to mention, life appearing from non life. It's always " an event happened ten billion years ago and a magical thing happened in which we can carry on guessing that something changed into another thing that defies science and logic"
Buy the chart:
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Just a correction.
Luca isn't at the bottom.
He lives on the second floor.
- Suzanne Vega, "My Name is Luca" (1987)
@@UsefulCharts no our family make tree chart
Matt, if you hd to choose, would you evolve to a crab, or would you evolve to a mole?
Mole for sure!
Did you delete the other video from the evolution tree from a couple of years ago?
I don't understand why this series has less views than your "regular" work, but please don't give up. It's quality is phenomenal.
Years ago, back in 2021/2022, I worked for Matt and did the research for the update of this chart. I am very happy to finally get to see the end result. He even added a picture of my pet rabbit for the rabbit on the chart. I t was a great job working for Matt, and I absolutely love getting to see this chart finally.
Hey man! Shoot me an email and I'll send you a copy of the new chart for free!
Honestly if you just used this video to replace the second half of the first lecture in 95 percent of level 1 undergraduate biology classes in the English speaking world it would be a net positive. Thanks for everything you do with this channel.
The visual representation probably makes it a valuable tool even schools that teach English as a second language, too
@@photinodecay I reckon the amount of biology jargon would make it unsuited for language-learning purposes. Of course, many ESL countries require English fluency from university onward (like mine), so it should still be well-suited in that regard.
@@GoldenBeholden right, the amount of Latin terms in the jargon makes English speaking mostly irrelevant, which is why I think there is no issue with English being the student's native language.
17:21 That's not why starfish (and all other echinoderms) are bilaterally symmetrical. They're bilateral in the larval stage of their life cycle, but when they settle down on the seafloor, they develop their adult bodies; the larval left side becomes the adult underside, where the mouth is (except in crinoids) and the larval right side becomes the adult overside, where the anus is (except in brittle stars). Adult echinoderms usually have 5-segmented radial symmetry, where their body parts repeat every 72 degrees you travel around the centre of the organism.
Even if they weren't bilateral at any stage of their lives, they would still be considered part of Bilateria because they have an ancestor that was bilateral and was part of said group. That's what ultimately matters the most.
You have no idea how much ive been looking forward to this. This series will truly show how versatile this channel's concept is
Your ability to arrange so much complex information is a beautiful thing, plus walking us through the chart is so engaging, I'm very excited for the rest of this series!
A small correction/clarification about starfish: they are considered members of Bilateria because of their evolutionary ancestry, not because of their adult body symmetry.
Starfish belong to the phylum Echinodermata (also includes sea urchins and sea cucumbers), and during their larval stage, they exhibit this bilateral symmetry. Later in development, they undergo metamorphosis into their adult form, which is radially symmetrical.
Despite this change, their classification in Bilateria reflects their evolutionary history and developmental patterns, rather than their adult morphology.
Professor Baker, you are obviously the preeminent polymath of our age. Thank you for your wisdom and systemization!
Just as the video was saying, "the tree that connects every loving thing," I turned to my dog and said, "it's your family tree, too. And mine." He looked at me like, "weirdo." Too bad for him, I get to pick what TH-cam plays.
I love all your hard work. You help lift me out of my chronic pain.
This is the most thorough discussion of the Tree of Life I have ever stumbled upon outside the Biologi classroom. Amazing job making this available for free on youtube, I will be buying some of each chart to hang in the classrooms at my college :) Minor nidpick: Adult starfish does not have bilatteral symmetry, but radial symmetry. They have the mouth on the bottom and the pooper on top, and for the starfish in the picture is therefore pentaradial. They are clearly bilatterally symmetrical in the larval stages and their close Echinodermata relatives Sea Urchins and Sea Cucumbers are also closer to bilateral symmetri so they clearly belong in this group but is a good example of how we humans want nature to fit in nice little boxes and nature just shitting on our need for order :D
AronRa has a 50 part series (Systematic Classification of Life) that does basically this same thing. It's broken up into 7-11 minutes videos where the last quarter of the videos (starting around the Primate clade) are a bit longer. He's since made some mini series spinoffs (each named after their clades of focus) going further into Ophidia, Arachnomorpha, and Whippomorpha whose videos are 20-40 minutes each.
@@zecuse I am glad someone did this, because I was going to write the same.
BTW, Clint's Reptiles is another person to look up, he has a video explaining why birds are reptiles because of evolutionary clades.
However, on Aron Ra... Aron Ra's the guy who had a huge series of him and Kent Hovid going back and fourth. It got to the point where the last video all Aron Ra was copy and paste past video responses to prove Kent never changes.
Kent then ran a series called "Whack the Atheist" where he attacked people like SciManDan (who normally tackles flat earthers), his still attacking Dan to this day. He also attacked Genetically Modified Skeptic, a former follower of his, who was disappointed by Kent's childishness towards him when he used to worship Kent as a hero. This should sum up Kent Hovid in a nutshell... The Aron Ra versus Kent back and fourth makes your brain rot, Kent has nothing intelligent to say for himself and ignores everything people correct him on. You can watch his videos from the 80s, and he still says word for word what he did in the 80s even now.
I'm so excited about this video series! Your original evolution chart video is why I started watching this channel in the first place, years ago~
I want to tell you all something. One year ago, if you asked me if I would ever accept evolution as a coherent scientific theory, I'd call you insane. But back in November 2023, something happened that made me want to debunk evolution once and for all. And since I thought I had a pretty good grip on science at the time, I thought I could do it. But I failed in about a month. But I learned to reconcile my faith with evolution, and I am still very much a Christian. If you are a creationist and watching this video, just know that you can be a Christian and accept basic scientific principles like evolution, since Evolution does not contradict the Gospel.
Why do you speak like AI?
Evolution, and by "Evolution" I mean Darwinism (for its quite clear that God made his creation with the ability to adapt to changes in the environment), is contradictory to the Scriptures.. for its either God CREATED or "by chance" things "evolved"...
I don't have enough faith to believe the latter, hence I'll die a "Creationist", believing that "in the beginning, God CREATED the heaven and the earth"..
Darwinism has been used by many to "justify" many of the evils which God clearly condemns in the Scriptures..
Believe what you will... but because of this, we MUST separate..
Job 35:
10 But none saith, Where is God my maker,
who giveth songs in the night;
11 who teacheth us more than the beasts of the earth,
and maketh us wiser than the fowls of heaven?
@@GrigRP Do I sound like an AI? Well, I'm not. I'm an actual human! 🙋
It seems my other reply that I made here might be now "hidden", only visible (to me at least) when selecting "Newest"..weird..
@@Logan_Bishop_YTwell, hello there fellow human of the "mankind", if you're not an "AI" can you confirm that you can see my other comments? Especially the one I made as to Why I don't agree with you?
Let’s GOOO, been looking forward to this chart. This took a lot of hard work, Great Job!
I had a sibling growing up that had a lot of aquariums with different types of fishes or reptiles. Two aquariums had lungfish in them. It was pretty cool.
Having only ever taken one science course--intro to botany in 1967--but being seriously fascinated by evolution and natural sciences more generally, and having sort of read and watched many explanations of evolution, this may be the simplest and clearest I've yet come upon. Thank you for posting this. Now I'm headed over to your sales site!
Love how simply you explain vital concepts in evolutionary history!
The evolutionary life tree itself evolves
Better to say that our UNDERSTANDING of it evolves as new evidence accumulates that enable finer distinctions to be made about where the "branching" occurs in the "Tree"
@@gdubaz Abiogenisis
I keep clicking the like button because I keep hearing major agreeing moments. What a well-researched, well-translated science. Thank you!!!
Oh wow I just got done watching the phylogeny video on Clint's reptiles and now this! What a treat.
Well hi there!
I really like most of your videos but this is one of the most fascinating things I've ever watched and I'm already looking forward to the next parts.
So, we are descended from sponges that weren't good at being sponges, and our cousins who remained sponges were just much better at being sponges than our ancestors.
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Minor nitpick: Bees and ants nest within wasps.
This is a fantastic video and I will definitely need to get this chart!
I think I agree with what you’re saying lol. Based on what I know, I think it would be more accurate to say that wasps broke off from the tree first (so yes, bees and ants are more related to each other). This gets slightly complicated though since there are some wasps that are typically considered to be more closely related to bees and ants than other wasps (there were multiple branches from the tree). But yes, assuming I understand what you mean. I got confused by the word “nest”
But there are many bigger mistakes than that the one with bees and wasps.. those are all simplifications necessary simply because the whole tree should fit into one chart and important for humans groups are shown
@@KateeAngel true
Also wasps nest within the sawflies. The sawflies always get overlooked when people talk about hymenopterans, even though they came first.
When I saw this on my recommended my eyes went wide and I dropped everything to check it out. I love the history and sociology videos, but biology is my JAM and I'm so excited that this is a series now.
When you do the plant video, can you cover CAM respiration, euphorbia vs cacti convergent evolution, bromeliads adaptations to absorbing water, tillandsias too but that’s different, bananas, mono vs dicots, grasslands, any animals that helped/coevolved (one I can think of is giant sloths and avocados), ficus family (especially mangroves), coconuts/palms+cycads and ginkgos. Thank you, i loved this video, I just love plants a lot and think those are fun topics.
Much awaited video Matt, not knowing that it's going to be a series. Super 👏👏 looking forward 👍👍
I really gotta say you guys knocked it out of the park with the animations here. Can't wait for the whole series because I intend to come by your physical location to buy copies of the poster for my ecology company, then I can send them the videos!
Professor Matt Baker has founded a TH-cam University, and I'm taking every course. It's just great.
It's never been so much fun to learn something new just by looking at a chart. 🧡
This will definitely be a series I will enjoy, btw I love your content (family trees etc.) They're always so interesting! Thank You
You should collab with Clint's Reptiles. They have lots of good videos on cladistics.
Good suggestion!
Yeah, I suggested this too when Matt put out the call for corrections and updates! Would be a perfect collab!
I really want Clint Laidlaw to review you chart.
I'd like to see Clint react to these as they come out. A collab would be beyond cool, but a reaction would be a lot of fun too.
Wow what great timing! I just got my new office and wanted this poster (or the older version) as a nice reminder for my Ev Psych research. Now I get a new version and get to look forward to a new series!
My favourite channel ❤❤❤. I hope you do more on Africa in the future 😊
Good video, would evolve to watch it again
Nice comment. Would evolve again to read it.
A clade is the last common ancestor and all of its descendants. Fish, by this definition, must also include tetrapods, because you cannot evolve out of a clade.
A fellow Clint's Reptiles fan I see
Perfect timing, I just finished covering this chapter with my class today.😁
You ended right on a cliffhanger!! Amazing work Matt and team 👏
Thank you for finally making a chart with me on it!
That was incredibly interesting. You have explained so much and filled in so many of the blanks that now I feel more confident in my grasp of this subject!
Fantastic serise of videos. Every biology undergraduate should watch these at the start of their studies
@UsefulCharts Brilliant content engagingly presented!!❤
Man you left us on a cliffhanger!!
Science is a systematized body of knowledge gathered over a long period of time to explain the world we live in
I got this poster from my parents last christmas. Looks like im asking for it again lol ❤
What a good day! I always needed a video like this! Thank you very much sir!
Wohooooooo
I’ve been wondering if you gonna make an update video since the archaea finding
Ofc you did but even better, you came with a whole new series 🙌🏻👏🏻
This is brilliant, and some of the comments are also mines of knowledge!
I’m going to binge watch this series!
This is one of the most interesting videos I have ever seen.
Beautiful organization and color scheme
This was really good. My only minor gripe would be the exclusion of the Placoderms, the prehistoric armored fish that included animals such as Dunkleosteus and Bothriolepis. Some scientist speculate that the placoderms were the ancestors to both bony fish and cartilaginous fish. Irregardles if that's the case or they're simple an off shoot of the first jawed animals they are still important for the understanding of early vertebrate evolution.
Brilliantly done. I just had to hit subscribe and can't wait to watch the next installments. I am soaking this all in like a sponge, which, it seems, is an ancestor of ours. Like father like son I guess? OK, skip that. Still great job and thank you.
Great video! Such an interesting premise.
this video just summarised the first year of two of my modules of my undergrad degree in environmental science
Im already loving this series
I love how he designed the chart
Got this and super excited for the rest of the videos!!
Thank you so much! This video basically sums up one semester of Zoology:)
I’m writing my exam next week and was looking for an overview like this. Even considered making one myself, so this video is just amazing! It all makes sense now!🫶
I really loves this channel 😊
I followed the channel because of the old video
I don’t need a fourth UsefulCharts chart I don’t need a fourth UsefulCharts chart I-
I’ve been obsessed with the tree of life since my bio anthropology class in college. I created my own massive tree of life, though mine was just brackets with no pictures
The recent research on spontaneous RNA like protein strings shows how easy life started. It may even be starting on new paths all the time, meaning it's constant appearance may be a source of mutation or new evolution.
It seems like this video should be so much longer than 20 minutes. I miss falling asleep to your voice in the long ones
I eagerly anticipate the next video in this series.
I'm pretty sure I live on your street lol? Always been seeing this big van with your channel on it and I finally decided to look you up
Howdy neighbour 🙂. Yup, I'm in the house that the van is parked in front of. If you see us on the porch, say hi.
Honestly, this video could have been 3 lectures for an undergrad intro to human evolution class lmao mine was excruciating (Anthro major)
super cool, going to buy the chart
That's great; thank you for this, and for all your work.
Hell yeah, fun guys got to be their own realm 🎉
Looking forward to this series.
Matt, Do you ever het outside or visit a park? I dont know how you do, using all of your time to make charts❤thank you for putting them together for us. 😸
Note to check out the website, if they deliver to SA, my dad would love this
I'm excited. 😊
this makes me so happy yessss
nice to hear you again Matt. hoping your health returned to baseline! (trying to sound scientific like you)
Great video! I have a genuine question. Why is the Asgard super-phylum between the domain and the kingdom? I mean, the taxonomical hierarchy is so: Domain>Kingdom>phylum. So "super-phylum" should be between kingdom and phylum, and not between the domain and kingdom. Is there something that I'm missing?
One of my favourite facts is that, technically, humans are a type of fish
@@Dr.Ian-Plect ok what’s your response to the fact that you can’t evolve out of a clade? I only know this bc I learnt it from a biologist, so I’d be interested to hear a dissenting opinion
@@Dr.Ian-Plect as far as my understanding goes, there are bony fish, and some animals that it wouldn’t make sense to exclude from any category including all fish diverged from the rest before mammals did, so any group including all fish has to include all mammals, so humans would be fish. Either that or the word fish has to be referring to (at least) two groups that are separated on the evolutionary tree by, among other things, humans.
@@Dr.Ian-Plect I did I just don’t understand how anything you said invalidates the claim that any clade that includes all fish also includes humans
@@gdubaz do you think natural selection is a sentient being? It’s a process. That’s like asking if wind wants to blow a tree over
@@Dr.Ian-Plect calm down, its really not that deep
Awesome series! Thanks!
very cool video, one thing tho, can you update the chart so that it would highlight the key evolutionary aspect of each life form? like mouth forming first or bones vs shell, central nervous system, stuff like that
At 12:19 you mentioned Convegent Evolution, I'm no Biologist, but pretty much everything shown on your chart down the Bilateria branch has eyes or light sensing receptors of some sort. I get the impression like Octopi inherited their eyes.
many members of that family dont have eyes
Exactly what i always wanted
It looks more like a grape vine now😂 very nice!
Beautiful charts and informative presentation. In a new book published by Austin Macauley Publishers titled From Chemistry to Life on Earth which outlines abiogenesis in great detail with a solution to the evolution of the genetic code and the ribosome as well as the cell in general the author concludes that LUCA and FUCA are mythical prokaryotes that are the result of convergent biochemical evolution in the use of the universal genetic code and had great divergence in other aspects of their biochemistry ie cell membrane composition, energy sources, pores and polymerases. 290 references, 50 illustrations and several information tables with a proposed molecular natural selection formula with a worked example for ATP. The genetic code is still evolving to this day on a geological time scale.
Why not building a Wikipedia type of system for all the different branches with the possibility to zoom in and out and tell a specific story on demand. Nevertheless, I love your work - very important and very entertaining- thank you!
I’ve always been fascinated about evolution, and learning about how is an exciting endeavor to learn how life changes and diversifies. The “tree of life” chart works wonders in explaining just how complex (and perplexing) evolution can be.
While I love the new chart, there's one thing I wish was more prominently painted out: That Carnivora splits into cat-likes and dog-likes, with each of those represented by the respective popular pet.
I actually did do that. You'll see it more clearly when I cover mammals.
Every living thing is part of one big family tree which is incredibly cool and incredibly weird.
This explanation at 14:48 blew my mind. This is so well done and interesting :)
Much obliged for this video
Man i wish i knew you were working on a new one when i bought the old one 6 months ago
Hey @UsefulCharts. Is there a possibility of shipping to Norway?
Thanks!
Will a family chart be made for my family as well?
@@Dr.Ian-Plect Whatever charges are made for my family, I will pay you. Just give me the PDF!
To be entirely honest, I went back-and-forth between the two around 0:40 and the previous one looks a bit better (more like blooming flowers and less like a puzzle game) - though of course the updated contents are more important.
PS: Your Shipping policy (when viewed from the EU) states that shipping to continental Europe costs $14. Since you are based in Vancouver ('Vancouver store'), is that Canadian dollars? Or is that in USD like specified for the posters? I'm not sure if you are shipping from the US or from Canada.
And your poster sizes are 24x36 and 32x48, both are missing units on the site. You mention in the video that they are in inches, so they are 61x91 and 81x122? Or are the inches approximate and are they nice round 60x90 and 80x120?
Since you included extinct creatures, would have loved to see the inclusion of Ediacaran fractal lifeforms early in the history of animals.
It only makes sense once we get past the bacteria part, into recognisable types of things. From there we can see adaptation. Prior to this it's a educated guess with time being the hero of the plot . Not to mention, life appearing from non life. It's always " an event happened ten billion years ago and a magical thing happened in which we can carry on guessing that something changed into another thing that defies science and logic"
fantastic