SciShow: What Animal Dominates Earth?

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Content of the Lesson: There is a group of animals with more species than any other group, but Earth has such an astonishing variety of life that figuring out which group dominates is tricky. Hosted by: Stefan Chin SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Kevin Bealer, KatieMarie Magnone, D.A. Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, Avi Yashchin, Ron Kakar, Chris Peters, Kevin Carpentier, Patrick D. Ashmore, Piya Shedden, Sam Lutfi, charles george, Greg ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/side_O_0/beetles_01 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/247604513_Practical_Approaches_to_the_Estimation_of_the_Extent_of_Biodiversity_in_Speciose_Groups [PDF] http://theconversation.com/how-many-species-on-earth-why-thats-a-simple-question-but-hard-to-answer-114909 http://people.uncw.edu/rotenbergj/Class%20Documents/430/Tropical%20Forests_Their%20Richness%20in%20Coleoptera%20and%20Other%20Arthropod%20Species.pdf https://bmcecol.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12898-018-0176-x https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/04/parasitic-wasps-dominate-the-animal-kingdom/557348/ https://bdj.pensoft.net/articles.php?id=21715 https://www.biotaxa.org/Zootaxa/article/view/zootaxa.4402.1.3 https://www.researchgate.net/publication/262866222_The_Neglect_of_Parasitic_Hymenoptera_in_Insect_Conservation_Strategies_The_British_Fauna_as_a_Prime_Example [PDF] https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/004030BB0D4456C23BBF5A886F826DAD/S0031182014000791a.pdf/evolution_of_parasitism_in_nematoda.pdf [PDF] https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1086&context=parasitologyfacpubs [PDF] https://www.cell.com/trends/parasitology/pdf/S1471-4922(17)30044-2.pdf [PDF] https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2556407/ https://www.researchgate.net/publication/324039525_Comprehensive_inventory_of_true_flies_Diptera_at_a_tropical_site [PDF] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280927917_Biodiversity_of_Diptera ---------- Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Darwin%27s_beetle_box_-_1.jpg https://www.scienceimage.csiro.au/image/2818


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