SciShow: Bugs Aren't Brainless! | Great Minds: Charles Henry Turner

Teacher or professor: SciShow
Subject: Science
Content of the Lesson: At the turn of the 20th century, scientists thought that insects were nothing more than tiny reflex machines. But Charles Henry Turner, who was possibly America’s first Black entomologist, ran some groundbreaking animal behavior studies that suggested otherwise. Hosted by: Hank Green 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: Bd_Tmprd, Harrison Mills, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- 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://doi.org/10.1146/annurev.ento.54.110807.090502 https://doi.org/10.2307/1536262 https://doi.org/10.2307/1536088 https://doi.org/10.2307/1536017 https://doi.org/10.2307/1536008 https://doi.org/10.2307/1535919 http://www.cpnas.org/aahp/biographies/charles-henry-turner.html https://psychology.okstate.edu/museum/turner/turnerbio.html https://doi.org/10.1037/0000011-001 https://doi.org/10.5514/rmac.v39.i2.63916 https://doi.org/10.1078/1433-8319-00070 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15541510/ Image Sources: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prof._Charles_Henry_Turner.jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/dark-wood-background-gm1053151614-281369304 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/honeybee-gathering-pollen-from-flower-gm1177082810-328461254 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/male-fruit-fly-on-a-blade-of-grass-macro-gm137448810-6634650 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/swallow-tail-butterfly-caterpillar-02-gm116017640-4177119 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/set-of-endant-lamps-isolated-gm1198971601-342844200 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/butterfly-on-hand-gm529802725-54283042 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/paper-gm483771961-38250724 https://www.istockphoto.com/vector/bee-flower-company-icon-concept-gm865627922-143753451 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/cockroach-on-wooden-floor-in-apartment-house-gm1196813245-341515016 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/american-polyphem-gm1154521649-313991180 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/organ-pipes-detail-gm157293946-3930934 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/vintage-books-on-table-in-library-gm846224900-138571263 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/close-up-of-a-cute-fuzzy-honey-bee-gm1218469787-356053222 https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hispanic-school-boy-gm950604502-259470216 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Henry_Turner_(1867%E2%80%931923).jpg https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/blank-front-real-black-chalkboard-background-texture-in-college-concept-for-back-to-gm1201544779-344623027 https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Ada_Lovelace_portrait.jpg


Click here to view video on YouTube.