SciShow: 4 Ways Humans Are Still Evolving

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Content of the Lesson: When we think about evolution, we typically think about big changes that happened long ago, but we humans are still evolving! Hosted by: Olivia Gordon 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, Jacob, Katie Marie Magnone, D.A.Noe, Charles Southerland, Eric Jensen, Christopher R Boucher, Alex Hackman, Matt Curls, Adam Brainard, Scott Satovsky Jr, Sam Buck, 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: Beating the Heat https://nerdfighteria.info/v/ecZbhf96W9k/ https://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/primer/mutationsanddisorders/evolution https://www.ga.gov.au/scientific-topics/national-location-information/dimensions/climatic-extremes https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3924073/ https://www.hormone.org/your-health-and-hormones/glands-and-hormones-a-to-z/hormones/thyroxine Arsenic in the Andes https://academic.oup.com/mbe/article/32/6/1544/1074042 https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/csem/csem.asp?csem=1&po=11 https://www.genome.gov/genetics-glossary/Genome-Wide-Association-Studies https://www.genome.gov/about-genomics/fact-sheets/Genome-Wide-Association-Studies-Fact-Sheet https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/13/science/an-unlikely-driver-of-evolution-arsenic.html Growing Taller https://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6313/760/tab-pdf https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0960982207009852 Alzheimers https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.2002458 https://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2019/02/07/692088371/living-near-your-grandmother-has-evolutionary-benefits https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2015/11/anti-alzheimer-s-gene-may-have-led-rise-grandparents Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/biology-gm1178200847-329216752 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/aero-beautiful-nature-and-the-river-segagwo3it7hqvhi https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/abstract-particles-gm1160645020-317757905 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/salar-de-talar-and-surrounding-volcanoes-atacama-desert-chile-gm175189565-22586416 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/view-of-the-san-pedro-river-in-san-pedro-de-atacama-atacama-desert-chile-gm1137296733-303229788 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/artifical-intelegence-dna-molecule-dna-is-converted-into-a-digital-code-digital-code-gm1139572038-304631132 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/happiness-translates-into-beauty-gm610678842-104886517 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/asian-little-girls-standing-together-gm157999989-22334458 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apolipoprotein_E#/media/File:PBB_Protein_APOE.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/three-generation-hispanic-family-standing-in-the-park-smiling-to-camera-selective-gm1094440264-293734365 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/commuters-walking-through-shibuya-station-at-rush-hour-shibuya-tokyo-honshu-japan-asia-tlapse-pxfhay3 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/milk-bottle-with-blud-cap-isolated-on-white-background-gm534335836-94807737 https://www.videoblocks.com/video/portrait-of-cute-african-american-child-boy-sitting-by-the-table-and-drinking-milk-from-the-glass-on-the-background-of-cozy-living-room-btesgkbpyvjucxxcqx https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromosome#/media/File:NHGRI_human_male_karyotype.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Australians#/media/File:Alexander_Schramm_-_An_Aboriginal_encampment,_near_the_Adelaide_foothills_-_Google_Art_Project.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/red-sand-in-simpson-desert-australian-outback-gm153813702-21668004


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