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The timing of biological evolution 00:00:00 Our progress to date 00:01:59 Our progress to date 00:02:58 "Is not time a pretty toy?" 00:03:22 Ralph Waldo Emerson poem 00:04:01 Hubble Deep Field picture 00:06:46 Outline 00:08:18 What do we mean by "evolution?" 00:08:50 Defining biological evolution 00:09:10 In conflict with the 2nd law? 00:10:44 Outline 00:12:40 In one hour 00:12:50 Precambrian microbes 00:14:42 Vendian fossils 00:14:55 In one hour 00:15:18 Is all evolution gradual? 00:16:12 Cyanobacteria: microbial heroes 00:16:27 Cyanobacteria 00:17:13 Far Side comic 00:18:48 Influenza virus evolution 00:19:14 Evolution of antibiotic resistance 00:20:02 Scientific American graphic 00:20:38 Pictures of viruses 00:21:38 Long-term laboratory adaptation 00:22:30 Punctuated evolution 00:23:46 What explains this rapid evolution? 00:25:48 The frantic pace of our immune system 00:26:50 Microevolution and macroevolution 00:27:15 Types of selection 00:28:14 The Cambrian EXPLOSION 00:28:59 What caused the Cambrian Explosion? 00:30:32 Gene diagram 00:31:52 Homeotic Mutants 00:32:57 None of this was predictable 00:34:36 Replaying life's tape? 00:34:56 All about Perception 00:36:59 Emerson quote 00:38:35 Thanks to: 00:39:38
