Seed Magazine has a neat video up, in celebration of Charles Darwin’s 200th birthday. It condenses the 4.6 billion year history of the Earth into one minute of footage. As such, it gives one a sense of perspective, in terms of how little of the history of life humanity has witnessed.
One quibble: the video refers to photosynthesis by ‘blue-green algae,’ which is a misnomer. So-called ‘blue-green algae’ aren’t algae at all; they aren’t even plants. They are cyanobacteria.
Author: Milan
In the spring of 2005, I graduated from the University of British Columbia with a degree in International Relations and a general focus in the area of environmental politics. Between 2005 and 2007 I completed an M.Phil in IR at Wadham College, Oxford. I worked for five years for the Canadian federal government, including completing the Accelerated Economist Training Program, and then completed a PhD in Political Science at the University of Toronto in 2023.
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Interesting video . . . don’t blink at the end.
Interesting and informative video . . . don’t blink at the end, you might miss us.
This video provides a nice counterpoint to those who argue that things like DNA could never have emerged by chance. It took a very long time for the foundations of modern life to be established.