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So we've used that method to count neurons in dozens of different species so far, and it turns out that all brains are not made the same way.
Well, other people have figured out how much energy the human brain and that of other species costs, and now that we knew how many neurons each brain was made of, we could do the math.
Light doesn't penetrate beneath the surface of the water, so ocean creatures like whales and dolphins and even 800 species of fish communicate by sound.
And this development in childhood reflects the development of our species.
Just as there was a point in your development as a child when your sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for you to realize you were mortal, so at some point in the evolution of our species, some early human's sense of self and of time became sophisticated enough for them to become the first human to realize, "I'm going to die."
Brian Farrell's work is all part of this agenda to try and actually discover all the species on Earth.
And if we did that with our little Martian probe, which we have not done on Earth, we would begin to see some incredible species.
You see 4,000 representative species, and you can see where we are.
And it came up with 6,000 different species of products.
We want a trillion zillion species of one individuals.
Bechstein's bats are a common species of European bats.
I would like to conclude on what this means for the whole species.
In the end, it may be bats which change their social structure in response to a population crash, or it may be meerkats who show a novel adaptation to a human road, or it may be another species.
Are there stereotypes you can confirm in this regard that can be valid across all species?
This is the first transplant of naked DNA, where you take an entire DNA operating system out of one cell, insert it into a different cell, and have that cell boot up as a separate species.
The idea is that, as part of human nature, from the beginning of our species' time, men have sort of leased women's reproductive potential by providing them with certain goods and services.
Anatomically modern human beings have been around for about 200,000 years, so we're talking about five percent, at most, of our time as a modern, distinct species.
So we've argued that human sexuality has essentially evolved, until agriculture, as a way of establishing and maintaining the complex, flexible social systems, networks, that our ancestors were very good at, and that's why our species has survived so well.
Interestingly, chimps have sexual swellings through 40 percent, roughly, of their menstrual cycle, bonobos 90 percent, and humans are among the only species on the planet where the female is available for sex throughout the menstrual cycle, whether she's menstruating, whether she's post-menopausal, whether she's already pregnant.
Our fates are forever connected to the millions of species we rely on directly and indirectly every day.
We are the sixth extinction because we left no safe space for millions of species to sustainably coexist.
We've now discovered 24 new species to science and hundreds of species not known to be there.
Just for malaria itself, there are a million deaths a year, and more than a billion people that need to be tested because they are at risk for different species of malarial infections.
Now invariably, you're probably thinking about what belongs to our own species, these very familiar structures, but the diversity that we see in sexual structures in the animal kingdom that has evolved in response to the multitude of factors surrounding reproduction is pretty mind-blowing.
It's very common in many phyla, from invertebrates to avian species, mammals, and, of course, even in primates.
Now interestingly, there are a few mammalian species in which females have evolved specialized genitalia that doesn't allow for sexual coercion to take place.
Instead of psychopaths, I studied mice, because the same pattern of brain responses appears across many different species of social animals.
It’s one of thousands of animal species, like frogs, jellyfish, salamanders, and snakes, that use toxic chemicals to defend themselves – in this case, by spewing poisonous liquid from glands in its abdomen.
So there are thousands of different species of phytoplankton, come in all different shapes and sizes, all roughly less than the width of a human hair.
I call them the charismatic species of phytoplankton.
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