Simulating Natural Selection

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  • Опубліковано 16 гру 2024

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  • @PrimerBlobs
    @PrimerBlobs  5 років тому +14094

    If you're about to leave a comment saying that faster creatures aren't actually less efficient, read this first. I presented that part a bit strangely.
    At 2:14, I say moving quickly is less efficient, giving the example of a creature moving a unit distance in half the time, using twice the energy. Then, at 4:53, I show a formula for the energy cost per unit time, which depends on the square of the creature's speed.
    I gave distance per time, energy per time, and distance per energy at separate parts of the video, and that was confusing.
    So here's a more explicit summary.
    If we double a creature's speed...
    - its distance per time is doubled (the definition of speed)
    - its energy per time is quadrupled (because it depends on the square of speed)
    - its distance per energy is halved: (2x distance per time) / (4x energy per unit time)
    That last bullet is the "efficiency" from the video. With its starting energy for a day, a 2x-speed creature can only travel half the distance.

    • @minebloxgx1780
      @minebloxgx1780 5 років тому +153

      Hoho that s what I understood !
      Great video and impressive simulation !

    • @kanal2123a
      @kanal2123a 5 років тому +31

      Isn't it obvious, great video!

    • @griffinwirth2628
      @griffinwirth2628 5 років тому +129

      I love how you got to change the amount of food DURING the simulation. Most other channels would have to reset the whole simulation.
      10/10 will come back again 👍

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 5 років тому +21

      Hmmm I doubt that the energy/time should be the square of speed. That seems to me to be too high. I bet irl it's closer to being some function which uses the natural logarithmic function.

    • @dannygjk
      @dannygjk 5 років тому +12

      @@AmmoGus1 Some function involving ln I didn't mean simply taking the ln of the size. We could probably find that info online rather than speculate about it. I bet scientists have done studies on the energy costs of various sizes etc. of animals.

  • @noctobyte7447
    @noctobyte7447 4 роки тому +6027

    Man cut the food to a tenth, started a mass famine and said ‘Hm’ when they all died lmao

  • @ddpnh8223
    @ddpnh8223 5 років тому +12702

    I'm glad the UA-cam algorithm is evolving and finally recommended me something good.

    • @existenceisrelative
      @existenceisrelative 5 років тому +296

      I mean, maybe the _population_ of algorithms is evolving...

    • @clakoclakson
      @clakoclakson 5 років тому +134

      it is addapting to its enviroment

    • @PeterSserwangaShow
      @PeterSserwangaShow 5 років тому +18

      Lol.. Totally. This popped up on my recommends while I was looking for synthwave videos..

    • @krishnaj2618
      @krishnaj2618 5 років тому +45

      *I'm glad the UA-cam algorithm is -evolving- entering a new developemental stage

    • @ckeilah
      @ckeilah 5 років тому +2

      Peter Sserwanga dude! I want some good synthwave videos. Please share!
      Do you know TheSynthFreq? She used to put out fantastic videos, then disappeared nine years ago. I always kind of hoped I’d run into her some day....

  • @tamircohen1512
    @tamircohen1512 5 років тому +3215

    This video drastically exceeded my expectations. This is one of the highest quality, most informative and engaging videos I've seen in a long while. You have earned my like and subscription! Looking forward to seeing more of your videos.

    • @gramptbeele1966
      @gramptbeele1966 5 років тому +4

      If you're interested in this video topic, the channel called carykh has made a really cool series on his own evolution simulator. Very cool

    • @tomatopotato4229
      @tomatopotato4229 5 років тому +51

      This comment drastically exceeded my expectations. This is one of the highest quality, most informative and engaging comments I've seen in a long while. You have earned my like and this answer! Looking forward to seeing more of your comments.

    • @MichaelRainabbaRichardson
      @MichaelRainabbaRichardson 5 років тому +1

      Additionally, great job at explaining the essence of ML and how RNNs relate without appearing to try. Are you using ML to do this, or just looping and animating (Unity/UE)?

    • @BruckerHouse
      @BruckerHouse 5 років тому +3

      "earned" lmao

    • @asherkandel5367
      @asherkandel5367 5 років тому +2

      Diddo to that, seems like someone who gets science and gets how people think. Good shit Primer guy

  • @tomk4t
    @tomk4t 3 роки тому +4355

    "We're living in a simulation!" - The Blobs probably

    • @PedroHenrique-cg4tu
      @PedroHenrique-cg4tu 3 роки тому +13

      @Dantron2000_yt e

    • @chipyopthemf9937
      @chipyopthemf9937 3 роки тому +20

      Probably not considering that all the blobs know is survive

    • @CaptainWise2016
      @CaptainWise2016 3 роки тому +3

      Oh no it’s west world

    • @Ur-HarkonThePainSeeker
      @Ur-HarkonThePainSeeker 3 роки тому +5

      "just like the simulations" -some clone in the clone wars-

    • @pbnt2838
      @pbnt2838 3 роки тому +1

      I was the one thousandth like, watching it go from 999 to 1K was amazing.

  • @deliciousserotonin5205
    @deliciousserotonin5205 4 роки тому +5979

    we now know the secret to immortality: just eat food every day

    • @stells8518
      @stells8518 4 роки тому +46

      Move, I'm doge! .o. Guess I’m immortal

    • @yumeyumedi
      @yumeyumedi 4 роки тому +20

      i know this is a joke but i think you get the video wrong
      man i just say this because i thought they got it wrong, if you cant take it then leave lol, i didn’t even offense the original comment, you guys are so sensitive

    • @TheAcid928
      @TheAcid928 4 роки тому +76

      @@yumeyumedi stfu

    • @iamwill1088
      @iamwill1088 4 роки тому +46

      @@yumeyumedi no

    • @BOT-ww3vb
      @BOT-ww3vb 4 роки тому +4

      Doctors: Yes

  • @thejesuschrist
    @thejesuschrist 6 років тому +5467

    awesome!

    • @jtktomb8598
      @jtktomb8598 6 років тому +377

      Thank you jesus

    • @timchapel77
      @timchapel77 6 років тому +403

      You like: Awesome, i simulated something similar about 14 Billion years ago!

    • @lladerat
      @lladerat 6 років тому +42

      @@timchapel77 why do we think that in first years after big bang time has flown at the same rate as now? maybe time went so fast or so slow in first thousands or even millions of years that universe could be 1 billion or 1 trillion years old by our understanding of time.... meh... its all just meaningless really.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 років тому +24

      @@timchapel77 jesuchristism says world is 6k years old

    • @timangar9771
      @timangar9771 5 років тому +10

      @The main cause of warps in all of reality no really, I think the jews placed the beginning of time at around 3 thousand years BC. Which is... wrong, I guess.

  • @KarakovAnuar
    @KarakovAnuar 5 років тому +54808

    I bet those blobs are like
    -dude, what's the meaning of life
    -I think we live in a simulation
    -what a stupid theory

    • @ATERAH
      @ATERAH 5 років тому +654

      I edited my comment XD

    • @BinguDingus
      @BinguDingus 5 років тому +3243

      bruh what if that's us

    • @Bug4d0-KRK
      @Bug4d0-KRK 5 років тому +717

      I think in that all the time

    • @ATERAH
      @ATERAH 5 років тому +607

      @@BinguDingus that would be scary

    • @lennonb6094
      @lennonb6094 5 років тому +126

      Radioactive Nightmarez exactly

  • @alexpartain325
    @alexpartain325 Рік тому +499

    In all seriousness, this should be shown in classrooms. It really does explain topics very very well providing a visual and being able to see it really helps rather than just reading it.

    • @marksukhovsky7917
      @marksukhovsky7917 Рік тому +18

      Lmao my class is literally watching this video right now

    • @ghosted_anarchist
      @ghosted_anarchist Рік тому +14

      my professor linked us to this vid in his presentation lol

    • @Blue_angel200
      @Blue_angel200 7 місяців тому +6

      Just finished watching this in class 😅

    • @damienthompson5808
      @damienthompson5808 22 дні тому

      Are you mad. This is Garbage evolution crap

  • @antoineringuette2923
    @antoineringuette2923 5 років тому +1951

    "The other day I came across somebody that more than 20% larger than me. It's a good thing I had better sense and better speed. That was scary. I guess I'm truly living on the edge!"
    - Blob

    • @mikabugg
      @mikabugg 4 роки тому +24

      Antoine Ringuette thank you very much for pretty much suming up the whole video for us 😂

    • @cubingx3727
      @cubingx3727 4 роки тому +5

      Common sense!
      -Grandma

    • @Hessonite_Dragon_Helen
      @Hessonite_Dragon_Helen 4 роки тому +2

      🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 OH MY GOD IM DYING HAHAHAHAHAHA

    • @mugge47
      @mugge47 4 роки тому

      that seems like something a blob would say during their ted talk

    • @seedping
      @seedping 4 роки тому

      They TRULY are living on the edge

  • @theCodyReeder
    @theCodyReeder 5 років тому +12933

    Well I'm just going to click that little red rectangular button and hope it shows me more like this.

    • @siddharthnarayanan97
      @siddharthnarayanan97 5 років тому +180

      Looks like me and Cody both got this video in recommend at the same time :p

    • @cavemann_
      @cavemann_ 5 років тому +64

      Same, also didn't expect you here, hi Cody.

    • @Arthanax
      @Arthanax 5 років тому +16

      Agreed

    • @eitanoidos6304
      @eitanoidos6304 5 років тому +24

      this video is great, cody is great, everything is great

    • @austinrebello
      @austinrebello 5 років тому +11

      Oh hi Cody, I didn’t expect you here

  • @TransitNerd
    @TransitNerd 4 роки тому +7699

    Can we have a moment of silence for the blobs that never made it back home?

  • @davidsc4680
    @davidsc4680 2 роки тому +186

    I'm a biologist and researcher in cell biology. I just discovered this channel and I have to say it is possibly the best way out there to quickly learn and understand how evolution works. Amazing modeling. Thanks!

    • @greatbriton8425
      @greatbriton8425 Рік тому +2

      Natural selection, while essential for evolution, is not exclusively a part of the theory of evolution. It is the cutting out of members of a population who are less suited to the current ecological conditions. It does not indicate how the better suited members arrived. Take for example the pepper moth. When Britain had a cold climate and there was a lot of snow, the white moths survived better. But when the climate warmed again, the darker moths survived better. Both sets of genes were always present within the pepper month's genome. It was the crossing over of the chromosomes which allowed variant expression of those genes, not mutations adding genes. And the crossing over of chromosomes is an incredibly complicated and sophisticated mechanism, very compatible with creation.

    • @davidsc4680
      @davidsc4680 Рік тому +6

      @@greatbriton8425 Creation? Are you talking about creationism?

    • @greatbriton8425
      @greatbriton8425 Рік тому

      @@davidsc4680 No, evolutionism

    • @davidsc4680
      @davidsc4680 Рік тому +3

      @@greatbriton8425 oh, ok. Then what you're saying is still natural selection. I don't get your point

    • @davidsc4680
      @davidsc4680 Рік тому +5

      @@dg7183 Not enough

  • @54m0h7
    @54m0h7 5 років тому +1291

    Very nice simulation. A fine example of "Survival of the Fittest". People always get that wrong. "Fittest" is not strongest or fastest, it's 'that which fits best' in its environment.

    • @voidofspace
      @voidofspace 5 років тому +34

      Well technically some environments require the strongest and/or the fastest, although you're right, that's not always the case

    • @milithdheerasekara6957
      @milithdheerasekara6957 5 років тому +74

      @@voidofspace he never said that fittest is never strongest or fastest, he said that fittest is that which fits best. this includes strongest and/or fastest in some environments, his point is that its not always the strongest or fastest, although it may be in some situations.

    • @voidofspace
      @voidofspace 5 років тому +15

      @@milithdheerasekara6957 That's what I said

    • @MalekitGJ
      @MalekitGJ 5 років тому +12

      @@milithdheerasekara6957 and in our case, was intellect
      Tools & tactics proved, by our own luck, to be more effective to hunt prey
      While agriculture & patrols, again by our own luck, to more safe to care for our younglings to grow

    • @ZechsMerquise73
      @ZechsMerquise73 5 років тому +9

      Ones which are more responsive to change are just more likely to survive. Inefficient species can still survive in their environment. It depends on the availability of resources, and these kinds of games/simulations can cause by design very specific situations which aren't as dynamic as a real environment. It's more like "over a given period of time, a population which 'fits best' is more likely to reproduce". Likely. Not "does"... The ideas of strong, fast, and fit (especially fitness as one-directional) play into the sort of Creationist dialogue that what we see is "perfect". No, what we see works. What often changes the game, on the other hand, is when species become proficient at thriving and over-consumption without significantly depleting their available resources.

  • @ironwoodkid9577
    @ironwoodkid9577 5 років тому +3361

    TFW youtube recommends something interesting for a change

    • @natherinz3650
      @natherinz3650 5 років тому +7

      10.00 worth it

    • @Sam-dt1kg
      @Sam-dt1kg 5 років тому +5

      Yo right

    • @deltius
      @deltius 5 років тому +24

      when youtube reccomends you something thats smart other than "why ping pong balls are like my testicles"

    • @thhhomas6322
      @thhhomas6322 5 років тому +1

      Iron Woodkid FACTS

    • @darthdarthbinkss
      @darthdarthbinkss 5 років тому +1

      Ikr. It seems a bit better lately. I'm finding some cool ass videos

  • @TH3mrBROWN
    @TH3mrBROWN 5 років тому +9039

    I'd like to thank my larger human friends for not eating me.

  • @Elidhion
    @Elidhion 11 місяців тому +16

    I'm an Evolutionary Biologist and man this is great popularization of science. Keep up the good work

  • @MrKalerender
    @MrKalerender 4 роки тому +1668

    I'm so glad I rewatched this and discovered there's a simulation for students to involve themselves with now. I plan on having my class use this to more thoroughly explore natural selection next year!

    • @SpeedKing..
      @SpeedKing.. 3 роки тому +8

      Yay

    • @LeafeonTheCat
      @LeafeonTheCat 3 роки тому +37

      I wish I was in your class

    • @thalmoragent9344
      @thalmoragent9344 3 роки тому +10

      @@LeafeonTheCat
      Same 😅 I had good teachers, but this is definitely a cool teacher

    • @haybean
      @haybean 3 роки тому +3

      I saved your comment from being 666

    • @ahaangupta
      @ahaangupta 2 роки тому

      @@LeafeonTheCat agree

  • @Santuaa
    @Santuaa 5 років тому +6396

    "Let's see what happens when we change the environment more explicitly. Let's go to ten food each day." -J. V. Stalin, 1932

    • @allisond.46
      @allisond.46 5 років тому +80

      Stalin wasn’t doing computer simulations with blobs.

    • @silent-hills
      @silent-hills 5 років тому +321

      Allison D. Yes, he wasn’t... the person was making a joke.

    • @208jdog
      @208jdog 5 років тому +179

      Wow... i can't believe that Junior Varsity Stalin really said that way back in 1932

    • @liorkosoy8012
      @liorkosoy8012 5 років тому +38

      Best comment in the history of comments

    • @MrRulet550
      @MrRulet550 5 років тому +62

      ironically, literally all blobs died in 3 days

  • @clyde15
    @clyde15 3 роки тому +163

    This feels like a video God would watch when preparing for his Big Bang final.

    • @jonathankennedy1963
      @jonathankennedy1963 3 роки тому +4

      He's testing if his emergent complexity algorithms work before applying them to real creatures.

    • @blast.507
      @blast.507 3 роки тому +2

      @@jonathankennedy1963 he's testing what-who and applying them to creatures?

    • @jonathankennedy1963
      @jonathankennedy1963 3 роки тому +2

      @@blast.507 Learned this from a science vid once. Infinite complexity can be made using just simple rules, solving problems from the bottom up.

    • @NitinKumar-qg4oz
      @NitinKumar-qg4oz 3 роки тому

      this comment will blow

    • @jonathankennedy1963
      @jonathankennedy1963 3 роки тому

      @@NitinKumar-qg4oz I sure hope so

  • @lcdream4213
    @lcdream4213 5 років тому +4213

    what an interesting way to teach biology
    *gives death stares to education system*

    • @thanhvinhnguyento7069
      @thanhvinhnguyento7069 5 років тому +156

      "Yes, you. I'm looking at you "

    • @gramptbeele1966
      @gramptbeele1966 5 років тому +243

      But how else will we learn that the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell?

    • @SteelyEyedMissileDan
      @SteelyEyedMissileDan 5 років тому +73

      I went to school in East Idaho, which falls right in the Mormon Corridor, or “Morridor.” I legitimately had multiple bio teachers present natural selection and creationism as equally likely and equally scientific theories.

    • @mollyo2407
      @mollyo2407 5 років тому +23

      Tim The Enchanter lol yikes i feel like that’s not legal but I live in nyc so that’s not a problem here thank god

    • @SpencerBrewerOG
      @SpencerBrewerOG 5 років тому +10

      @@gramptbeele1966 When my teacher said that I made sure to remember that moment forever, after all i wouldnt want to forgot the mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell

  • @drekaflugan
    @drekaflugan 4 роки тому +4477

    Just remember kids, simulations are just a fragment of the complexity of reality, there are so many other variables to take into consideration, that it's hard to simulate them all. For example, I am small but I have an easy time eating larger people :)

    • @nos2799
      @nos2799 4 роки тому +188

      I feel you! I am slow but I can outrun faster people...

    • @ctoooc
      @ctoooc 4 роки тому +60

      Wdym eat 🤢🤢🤢🤢🤢

    • @YituTG
      @YituTG 4 роки тому +256

      r/cursedcomments

    • @Danilego
      @Danilego 4 роки тому +28

      @@YituTG wow, posted 25 seconds ago! Also very true

    • @airbendermac
      @airbendermac 4 роки тому +15

      hot

  • @THExRISER
    @THExRISER 5 років тому +737

    This would make an excellent sandbox.

    • @thebadmedic89
      @thebadmedic89 5 років тому +4

      THE RISER true

    • @rilloff9710
      @rilloff9710 5 років тому +22

      actually there is sandbox like that already, Species: Artifical Life, Real Evolution (its full name of this sandbox game)

    • @tionebsrevne9374
      @tionebsrevne9374 5 років тому

      Maybe Cell lab on Android ?

    • @TheRainHarvester
      @TheRainHarvester 5 років тому

      Here's my version.

    • @TheRainHarvester
      @TheRainHarvester 5 років тому

      ua-cam.com/video/gaFKqOBTj9w/v-deo.html
      Here.

  • @jd-hs5lj
    @jd-hs5lj 3 роки тому +327

    “Which you might notice is similar to the formula for kinetic energy.” Funnily enough that wasn’t my first thought!

    • @BurgoYT
      @BurgoYT 2 роки тому +4

      It was mine, seeing the square of the speed

    • @monkey3229
      @monkey3229 Рік тому

      @@BurgoYT nerd

    • @BurgoYT
      @BurgoYT Рік тому +5

      @@monkey3229 I know maths, it’s not very advanced

    • @monkey3229
      @monkey3229 Рік тому

      @@BurgoYT 🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓🤓 "I know maths" you get no game my grigger

    • @sirstretchy7365
      @sirstretchy7365 Рік тому +5

      @@monkey3229 bro you cant be talking with that goofy pfp and user 💀💀

  • @drycleanonly
    @drycleanonly 5 років тому +4153

    I just watched a video about little avocado people and natural selection. No regrets.
    Edit: Thanks for the likes boys

  • @spoookley
    @spoookley 5 років тому +1240

    Those blobs are heckin’ cute. 10/10

  • @CommieG
    @CommieG 5 років тому +349

    Damn, these are some high quality videos boi

  • @warwickwallace2699
    @warwickwallace2699 3 роки тому +11

    This is an incredible video and a very well presented experiment, thank you for putting the time in to create this!

  • @kucinglaper5330
    @kucinglaper5330 5 років тому +648

    No blob were harmed during the making of this video.

    • @Gamespud94
      @Gamespud94 5 років тому +21

      some blobs were driven to extinction however.

    • @HudsonRebel
      @HudsonRebel 5 років тому +5

      Thousands have died actually

    • @otallono
      @otallono 5 років тому +1

      @@HudsonRebel died = harmed?

    • @Milkpastasoup
      @Milkpastasoup 5 років тому +1

      No video were harmed during the making of this blob

    • @backstabboi4559
      @backstabboi4559 5 років тому +1

      thats if they arent sentient like humans cause that adds a lot of factors to it
      imagine giving each blob an advanced a.i
      damn and literally play god

  • @ross.metcalf
    @ross.metcalf 5 років тому +1282

    Very cool video. I liked the graphs updating after each iteration. First time seeing your stuff, definitely subscribing for more!

    • @crazyballs9
      @crazyballs9 5 років тому +1

      Ross Metcalf same here! Nailed it!

    • @Trickorvr
      @Trickorvr 5 років тому

      Ditto

    • @Hackusater
      @Hackusater 5 років тому +7

      If only all comments were still like this, useful, informing, and truthful. Nowadays people just beg for likes and write joke comments to get the most likes.

  • @t.d.writer1589
    @t.d.writer1589 5 років тому +1373

    the blobs at the end of the second test: *_i am speed_*

    • @lilaniloxi
      @lilaniloxi 5 років тому +13

      Oh look more sonics
      And more sonics
      And more sonics
      *AND KNUKLES*

    • @woodyhulst
      @woodyhulst 5 років тому

      Something something speedforce

    • @agatkagrzyb653
      @agatkagrzyb653 5 років тому

      *_i have become f a s t_*

    • @ITSMANATIME
      @ITSMANATIME 5 років тому

      "The problem of being faster than light is that you can only live in darkness".
      "No matter how fast I run... I cannot run away from the pain..."

    • @darrenanimatic9675
      @darrenanimatic9675 5 років тому

      *no, I AM SPEED*
      *And WEED*

  • @zer0doesstuff
    @zer0doesstuff 2 роки тому +5

    Your videos are amazing and I watch them in my free time! Your simulations are amazing because you integrate them so well into what you are talking about and I really admire that.

  • @UnPuntoCircular
    @UnPuntoCircular 6 років тому +2789

    GREAT! is it possible to put some sort of web app with these so that people can play around?

    • @Michal235
      @Michal235 5 років тому +259

      That's what I wanted to ask for man, I'd love this

    • @cortezcrowley4691
      @cortezcrowley4691 5 років тому +120

      I'd love that, too!
      But I think, you'd have to come up with some very intelligent design. 😉

    • @SanxBile
      @SanxBile 5 років тому +8

      Bump

    • @basantologist
      @basantologist 5 років тому +14

      Amen

    • @MatthewHoHiWorld
      @MatthewHoHiWorld 5 років тому +10

      agree

  • @Icecolo
    @Icecolo 5 років тому +642

    holy crap you need more subs this is really cool

    • @chetkent7974
      @chetkent7974 6 місяців тому

      How do you not have a reply? It’s been 5 years lol. Here, I’m your first reply.

  • @EverSnaxolotl
    @EverSnaxolotl 5 років тому +2355

    Holy shit please make this a downloadable "game"

    • @katto1937
      @katto1937 5 років тому +233

      It is in a way, you just need to install the files in the description and get blender - then you can add your own parameters, but that would be quite complicated for someone who hasn't programmed before.

    • @debajyotimajumder472
      @debajyotimajumder472 5 років тому +24

      @@katto1937 can you show how to do it ?

    • @eyeofthepyramid2596
      @eyeofthepyramid2596 5 років тому +18

      @@katto1937 you forgot about GPU

    • @brandoniv5295
      @brandoniv5295 5 років тому +28

      @Red Dunkey shit make the game then bruh

    • @neoflash8107
      @neoflash8107 5 років тому +27

      BrandonIV lol pay me and I’ll make the game. Development isn’t free son

  • @yoshikagekira1436
    @yoshikagekira1436 3 роки тому +110

    Why can’t my science teachers play things like this, this was incredibly interesting and had my attention entirely!

  • @jhunnid7016
    @jhunnid7016 5 років тому +1708

    “The creatures now compete more fiercely and are less efficient overall” - sounds very familiar...

    • @shikuangli9690
      @shikuangli9690 5 років тому +3

      (?)

    • @Naijiri.
      @Naijiri. 5 років тому +159

      *C A P I T A L I S M*

    • @dusk_dawn6672
      @dusk_dawn6672 5 років тому +80

      Yeah i knew these type of comments would appear. History has proven and keeps proving that Communism doesn't work and that when a country implements too much socialist programs the economy falters.

    • @CaseyCorbett
      @CaseyCorbett 5 років тому +165

      @@dusk_dawn6672
      It isn't just Capitalism and Communism.
      There's a complete gradient scale, and not all capitalistic or communistic societies are created equal. Also I think the capitalism comment was a joke, while the humanity comment was the actual answer.
      Have you seen humanity?
      Do you know how much further we'd be if we put our funding and knowledge towards science rather than putting it towards war? We're all the same species, all more or less the same, living on Earth.
      Yet we've drawn fake lines in the sand and we've decided we want more and more and more, so we kill ourselves to take it from ourselves. While simultaneously destroying the Earth, the very thing which gives us Life. We destroy forests, create cheap yet non biodegradable materials which leach into our water, food, and us. And we hunt other animals into extinction for the thrill or money. We could've been so much more, but our greed and prejudice ruined it. At this point it's hopeless, we've divided ourselves so much that we're not even divided by place of birth anymore, we're divided by literally every possible thing. May it be skin color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, I could go on for hours.
      We are the press of a button away from nuclear armageddon, when instead we could've been a multi planetary species with no world hunger, educated populace, and little to no illness. But instead we put our resources into killing eachother, killing ourselves. We could have been so much more.

    • @oncehoode3930
      @oncehoode3930 5 років тому +22

      @@CaseyCorbett bro you speak the truth.

  • @kannabby
    @kannabby 5 років тому +339

    I feel very educated right now, this was not what I was trying to achieve when going through UA-cam but i want more

    • @loganmerritt4939
      @loganmerritt4939 5 років тому +3

      Don't feel too educated. Natural selection is used to prove evolutionary theory. The interesting thing about this video is that you never see a blob evolve into a cat. Even with 4.2 billion years it would never happen.

    • @Mittens_McG
      @Mittens_McG 5 років тому +1

      🙄

    • @Warionator
      @Warionator 5 років тому +9

      @@loganmerritt4939 maybe an r/whoosh, but it's because he didn't code anything for that to happen. he only made things for sense, speed, and size. Its never going to do what's not in the code.

    • @mayattv4986
      @mayattv4986 5 років тому

      🤭🤣

    • @ntactime_w3488
      @ntactime_w3488 5 років тому

      thats all i use UA-cam for

  • @eggsinabasket
    @eggsinabasket 5 років тому +3723

    They should show this video in school. It's actually extremely well made and also very educational

    • @silverlightsinaugust2756
      @silverlightsinaugust2756 5 років тому +41

      Iconicah oh I love this video so much! This video alone is getting these guys a subscription from me. I can’t believe how helpful of a visual aid this was. Evolution is a big deal for me, so communicating effectively is like an intellectual turn-on in a sense. If my son is a flat earther I won’t mind that much, but if he’s a creationist I’ll probably cry alone somewhere. So I agree 100%. This video, and possibly others of theirs, is not just educational, it’s fucking masterfully constructed.

    • @WillayG
      @WillayG 5 років тому +47

      I'm a teacher, not a science teacher but I'm going to show it to some of my students.

    • @blendernoob8993
      @blendernoob8993 5 років тому +8

      @@WillayG Nice I wish my teacher would do that

    • @WillayG
      @WillayG 5 років тому +17

      @@blendernoob8993 Thanks. Maybe you could suggest it to your teacher. I love when my students suggest class material to me. It helps everyone be more interested and helps students have some control or say in what they're learning. Maybe he or she'd appreciate your input.

    • @miniaturejayhawk8702
      @miniaturejayhawk8702 5 років тому +4

      @@silverlightsinaugust2756 HAH, my motger is a creationist, so i can't really take anything serious that she says! 😂😂😂

  • @elleofthewilds
    @elleofthewilds 3 роки тому +2

    ngl i almost always watch these videos when im about to sleep. helps me wind down and you retain information better if you consume it soon before sleeping.

  • @Tenne1988
    @Tenne1988 5 років тому +596

    You should make a game out of this. The player could edit the traits en environment and see how different settings play out:O

    • @spejic1
      @spejic1 5 років тому +33

      Agent-based model systems have been used for a long time in biology, social sciences, and business. There has been lots of software written to do this kind of thing, but it isn't for fun usually.
      There have been a few games that use some of these principles, like Spore.

    • @timburlingame5893
      @timburlingame5893 5 років тому +7

      I grew up playing "Evolve! Lite", an old dos game.

    • @damon9484
      @damon9484 4 роки тому +5

      it wont be as fun if you do it on your own.. he knows what hes doing so he can explain what's going on.

    • @Abhishek-iq9lo
      @Abhishek-iq9lo 4 роки тому +6

      yeah ! this is an amazing idea. it'll be kind of a simulation. very nice

    • @puyearprod.929
      @puyearprod.929 4 роки тому +1

      @@timburlingame5893 Youre a child if you grew up playing anything Lite

  • @damaan1243
    @damaan1243 5 років тому +1237

    Wow cute little blob bois
    Primer: Torture time

    • @backstabboi4559
      @backstabboi4559 5 років тому +9

      thats if they arent sentient like humans cause that adds a lot of factors to it
      imagine giving each blob an advanced a.i
      damn and literally play god

    • @deaugh985
      @deaugh985 5 років тому +10

      retard for life Imagine adding like character traits and structure building, battles, sentience, ect. Lets repeat world history

    • @TRAVISTY2000
      @TRAVISTY2000 5 років тому +5

      @@deaugh985 that would be siick

    • @Yakko-
      @Yakko- 5 років тому +2

      pickles

  • @carl8428
    @carl8428 5 років тому +1158

    A 10 minute video taught me more than a 1 month biology unit

    • @Smenchevieve
      @Smenchevieve 5 років тому +12

      @Issac Cohen Yeah that's what I was thinking.

    • @TheSomeonewholoves
      @TheSomeonewholoves 5 років тому +24

      Issac Cohen yup probably. Myself had a bad teacher. For two years class has learned nothing and everyone almost failed biology :)

    • @TheScarlettQuill
      @TheScarlettQuill 5 років тому +1

      True that

    • @theweirdsarr3734
      @theweirdsarr3734 5 років тому +9

      I think you mean my entire academic experience

    • @RayceVR
      @RayceVR 5 років тому +3

      Peter griffin: HE SAID IT

  • @Jeropa
    @Jeropa 8 місяців тому +2

    What a nice way to teach statistics! Thanks for this.

  • @KSR3
    @KSR3 5 років тому +1929

    god thank my ancestors who gave up their lives for mine to waste it on the internet

    • @ImJustStandingHereMenacingly
      @ImJustStandingHereMenacingly 5 років тому +7

      God bless

    • @tonitskikun9059
      @tonitskikun9059 5 років тому +17

      they didn't really cared,they just did their thing

    • @dope9555
      @dope9555 5 років тому +6

      Keoh 8 where did you get that idea?

    • @atyabtosif584
      @atyabtosif584 5 років тому +7

      and to think we are the pinnacle of evolution😂😂

    • @deadpirateroberts9937
      @deadpirateroberts9937 5 років тому +9

      Atyab Siddiqui most likely your not. The few STEM workers, researchers, and innovators of the world are.

  • @NBazure
    @NBazure 4 роки тому +2615

    Okay, i have 2 questions:
    How is this so entertaining?!
    Why can't school be like this?? :C

    • @video.mp4709
      @video.mp4709 4 роки тому +93

      Just wait for college where you can pursue something you care about

    • @that_one_duck9117
      @that_one_duck9117 4 роки тому +147

      a school where people become speedy blobs and dash around eating everything, and whenever they eat they have sex? seems like an AMAZING learning environment

    • @that_one_duck9117
      @that_one_duck9117 4 роки тому +34

      (just to clarify, i understand that isnt what they meant)

    • @thomashaigh6098
      @thomashaigh6098 4 роки тому +25

      When I taught natural selection to my class, they acted out this activity, only they were squirrels competing for hazelnut cards

    • @stells8518
      @stells8518 4 роки тому +17

      A 1. Because the blobs are friggen cute
      A 2. Because schools (a lot of them) are pretty cheap, not all though

  • @that1guyjack269
    @that1guyjack269 3 роки тому +1729

    It’s kinda amazing how this guys whole career is off of blobs and I love it

  • @UnSimpleMortal
    @UnSimpleMortal Рік тому +2

    This is easily my favorite Primer video, I came back often to see it again haha
    I love this experimentation, I would love to do some runs by myself on different environments, it looks so much fun!

  • @cannonfodderangry6517
    @cannonfodderangry6517 5 років тому +307

    Teacher: *talks about evolution*
    Me: You know I'm something of a scientist myself.

    • @arthuradriano1
      @arthuradriano1 5 років тому

      now that's a reference!

    • @insertname8889
      @insertname8889 5 років тому

      Pulls out "The expert" t shirt

    • @theorasmussenbauer
      @theorasmussenbauer 8 місяців тому

      Me after that bobbybroccoli episode on the man who faked an element

  • @acontic8203
    @acontic8203 5 років тому +638

    What if dead creatures will transform into food?

    • @selobee4831
      @selobee4831 5 років тому +64

      Time for more experiments! lol

    • @endergrad42
      @endergrad42 5 років тому +20

      @@acontic8203 2nd time now.

    • @RyanSavage_Banjo
      @RyanSavage_Banjo 5 років тому +19

      Michał Puchalski the increase in cannibalism may lead to a large surge in poor mental health or more violent blobs. In either case, eventually most of the population won’t even leave to get food and (obviously) die

    • @acontic8203
      @acontic8203 5 років тому +6

      @@RyanSavage_Banjo but if there will be more species and every creature will eat only food from other species...

    • @acontic8203
      @acontic8203 5 років тому +11

      Or divide creatures into herbivores and carnivores...

  • @tellmeaboutyourgame314
    @tellmeaboutyourgame314 Рік тому +4

    Despite not being about real world biology this video so succinctly touches on so many evolutionary principles more efficiently than say your average Nat Geo documentary. Speciation, mass extinctions, convergence, even insular dwarfism at the very end there. Top tier learning tool, this video.

  • @wheatandtares9764
    @wheatandtares9764 4 роки тому +3677

    Everyone: Stay calm, don't panic over coronavirus.
    UA-cam: Here is a video about natural selection!
    How reassuring!

    • @raulphilipgoco403
      @raulphilipgoco403 4 роки тому +28

      Wheat and Tares atleast the blobs are cute

    • @foreverkenzie2397
      @foreverkenzie2397 4 роки тому +12

      honestly though lets just try it out and see what happens

    • @nutnut9277
      @nutnut9277 4 роки тому +2

      underrated comment hahahaha

    • @foreverkenzie2397
      @foreverkenzie2397 4 роки тому +4

      @tre i agree, its sad to think about but humans are no better than any other mammal and we need to be able to weed out weak genes and we have not allowed this.

    • @colios137
      @colios137 4 роки тому +1

      The natural selection have started in France with people who continue to go outside for nothing...

  • @MedlifeCrisis
    @MedlifeCrisis 6 років тому +376

    Wow, this is truly impressive. Immensely polished for a new channel - subscribed for sure, especially as a student of evolution as well. Look forward to more.

    • @ckkitty
      @ckkitty 6 років тому +1

      me too, what to you think he might make next?

    • @000pava
      @000pava 5 років тому +12

      @Whipsaw Yay, you are willfully ignorant!!

    • @arnauadell4824
      @arnauadell4824 5 років тому +23

      @Whipsaw I don't think you understand entropy at all. What the 2nd law says is that a closed system cannot enter into a state where is there is more "order". A part of the system can gain order, as long as this is somehow compensated in another part.
      Now, is the Earth a closed system? Well, a system is closed when there is no energy coming in or out of it. And if you step outside you'll see a big red fucking burning bright ball in the sky called the Sun. It is sending a bit of energy towards us. You are right, life can't be sustained without an influx of energy, but it turns out that there is one right there. The day the Sun dies, we better find somewhere else to go.
      Oh and all that thing about entropy and closed systems? Guess what, the sun "generates" a shitton of entropy. A shitton. Way more than enough to compensate whatever order exists in the plants that use its energy for photosynthesis. So congratulations on trying to sound smart. You are a shame to religious people.

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 років тому

      @Whipsaw doesn't*

    • @JorgetePanete
      @JorgetePanete 5 років тому +1

      @@arnauadell4824 religious people are a shame

  • @hypertion
    @hypertion 4 роки тому +905

    I would love to see these tests taken to extremes
    Long enough and big enough to see if ecological niches appear.

    • @danielstarr8957
      @danielstarr8957 3 роки тому +127

      He should add geological differences on the map and watch as different micro populations evolve into completely different species over time.

    • @flamebird414
      @flamebird414 3 роки тому +50

      @@danielstarr8957 i would also love to see the addition of another species or two that hunts the blobs. See how they adapt to that. Would they get faster? Would sense increase? Would they shrink? Etc.

    • @charliedeegan1598
      @charliedeegan1598 3 роки тому +9

      Grey still plays makes Sims battle it out in absolutely ridiculous fights for their lives. (It's not at all scientific or factual but it's hilarious and very entertaining)

    • @Coolkid99880
      @Coolkid99880 3 роки тому +6

      It would be cool if everything evolved like the plants and blobs, soon there would be a entire ecosystem

    • @someguynamedsteve203
      @someguynamedsteve203 2 роки тому +4

      @@danielstarr8957 then all of it breaks down and watches them fight to the death for global dominance.

  • @gote761
    @gote761 2 роки тому +42

    Primer: Let's make this more realistic though!
    Also Primer: Each morning food just appears on the plane.

  • @makennashuter6606
    @makennashuter6606 4 роки тому +3230

    The one thing I have learned from these videos is NEVER BE GREEDY and NEVER HAVE BABIES. They are just more competition.

    • @whatabouttheearth
      @whatabouttheearth 4 роки тому +88

      'Mutualism' is one of the primary reasons hyper social societies of animals like dogs, humans, chimps, etc evolve and thrive

    • @makennashuter6606
      @makennashuter6606 3 роки тому +124

      @@535ejayeshdusseja5 it was obviously a joke...

    • @Alaskflls
      @Alaskflls 3 роки тому +8

      @@535ejayeshdusseja5 unless your joking can I use that dumbo part on you please?

    • @ILiekFishes
      @ILiekFishes 3 роки тому +6

      @@535ejayeshdusseja5 bruh

    • @SpeedKing..
      @SpeedKing.. 3 роки тому +48

      @@makennashuter6606 my laugh will arrive in 4 to 6 working days

  • @mrtomato8436
    @mrtomato8436 5 років тому +822

    Everything was going right until I saw cannibalism

    • @AiswaranDevaraj
      @AiswaranDevaraj 5 років тому +9

      I wouldn't say cannibalism imagine you are rich and your ties are big then it becomes a cannibalism attitude let's put it that way

    • @Isachzu
      @Isachzu 5 років тому +7

      They do it to survive so in a way, they are their in prey and predator

    • @breonawarren1507
      @breonawarren1507 5 років тому +1

      DVNOhelix Humans eating human flesh over a period time can cause neurological problems

    • @CaseyCorbett
      @CaseyCorbett 5 років тому +4

      Many species engage in cannibalism.
      These aren't Humans, yet many groups of Humans have also engaged in cannibalism for reasons of starvation, religion, to instill fear in rival groups, etc.

    • @reinhartnata47
      @reinhartnata47 5 років тому

      Breona Warren barbaric tribes did it but they're fine though

  • @gabrielsantana1886
    @gabrielsantana1886 5 років тому +720

    That's what we are, a simulation inside an alien's computer that makes videos to UA-cam.

    • @aj7789
      @aj7789 5 років тому +11

      Woah woah woah, Aliens wouldn’t be using this same dumb youtube bullshit. I bet if they could figure out how to simulate us to the degree of substance as our universe possesses, then they’d be able to make a much much better video sharing platform than youtube.
      I bet Space UA-cam would be soooo much better. I wish we could have their Space UA-cam.

    • @prospero4060
      @prospero4060 4 роки тому +2

      AJ Amusing. You say you wish we had this “Space UA-cam” as if you actually believe that could be a possibility at all.

    • @Beatsbasteln
      @Beatsbasteln 4 роки тому +3

      hope it's a live stream

    • @gor5048
      @gor5048 4 роки тому +7

      Alien seeing you type this: oh no the specimens have figured it out!

    • @echodec
      @echodec 4 роки тому +2

      @@prospero4060 you say that as if you actually believe there could be no possibility at all

  • @fortunato1957
    @fortunato1957 Рік тому +1

    Extremely well done! The implementation with Blender is very impressive! Such high-quality content! These ten minutes of effort should be worthwhile in any classroom!

  • @noibaah1954
    @noibaah1954 5 років тому +486

    One crazy thing about natural selection is that it doesn't work towards perfection, it works towards, well, what works! In an AP Biology class you'll hear the question "why do that, when it could do this, this being more efficient" and the answer is that although you are correct in how it would be more efficient, it didn't happen and what we have now is just what worked when it was needed, and therefore was passed to future generations. Truly a fascinating phenomenon within natural selection and evolution!
    Edit: Spelling

    • @Bluebull308
      @Bluebull308 5 років тому

      PoisonedDemon24 insightful

    • @Andrei2000PC
      @Andrei2000PC 5 років тому +3

      PoisonedDemon24 is your mom single?

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud 5 років тому +8

      It actually only has an illusion of "working towards" when that is not the case at all. It's just the name of a large collection of processes that aren't even related to evolution or even living things, they only happen to affect them. We can't actually define when it succeeds or fails because of this. It can cause species to go extinct or to become worse at survival just as much as it makes them more fit and both are equally valid results of "what works". Only with a selfish perspective do things like survival become akin to succeeding. Which is a flawed way of looking at things.

    • @dopaminecloud
      @dopaminecloud 5 років тому +14

      @St. Petersberg it's generally better to read up on what you're talking about before talking about it
      you look pretty stupid now

    • @vicentec4779
      @vicentec4779 5 років тому +5

      @St. Petersberg ¿whats your point?

  • @EdgyVidyaGeneral
    @EdgyVidyaGeneral 5 років тому +435

    I could watch 10 hours of you messing with the values and introducing different traits

    • @cakecreep2491
      @cakecreep2491 5 років тому +1

      C H O D E W R A N G L E R same

    •  5 років тому +6

      same, please.

    • @eduardoiiihabon6524
      @eduardoiiihabon6524 5 років тому +2

      same

    • @sincekabak
      @sincekabak 5 років тому +1

      MOAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAR

    • @kcin1299
      @kcin1299 5 років тому

      true

  • @emmacox3219
    @emmacox3219 5 років тому +1095

    This man has just solved over population... everyone just needs to get faster

    • @usuarionormal6778
      @usuarionormal6778 5 років тому +165

      cannibalism solves overpopulation and world hunger

    • @deadpirateroberts9937
      @deadpirateroberts9937 5 років тому +52

      usuario normal but the best solution is to voluntarily not reproduce if you dont think your intelligent. Then the only humans left on earth will be intelligent humans that dont have to deal with dumb tribal idiots killing each other and intelligent people instead of helping people and progressing humanity.

    • @usuarionormal6778
      @usuarionormal6778 5 років тому +29

      @@deadpirateroberts9937 you didnt get the joke?

    • @mikozish
      @mikozish 5 років тому +60

      @@deadpirateroberts9937 Great idea! So start from Yourself :D

    • @deadpirateroberts9937
      @deadpirateroberts9937 5 років тому +15

      usuario normal
      Its not about just getting to joke or not im teling you an idea of mine *OUTSIDE* the joke.
      Im not required to tell you “oh funny i got the joke” im free to talk about how this can be talked about in a different way.

  • @rasheedsk7855
    @rasheedsk7855 17 днів тому +1

    06:55 I think when considered mutation in speed alone, you took the energy cost to be proportional to v instead of v square. thats why the difference may be.

  • @doggoss3996
    @doggoss3996 5 років тому +233

    Mom: What are you watching?
    Me: Blobs eating green balls

  • @thesen8
    @thesen8 5 років тому +125

    This was quite a bit more complex than I expected. You always hear the phrase "Natural Selection At Its Finest" and now that I've watched this video, I've come to the conclusion that more than half the time, it's really not natural selection at its finest.

    • @Usulcardo
      @Usulcardo 5 років тому +4

      Well, saying that implies that natural selection has a goal, that "finest" exists objectively and that "finest" can be reached. And none of it is true. So it's kind of like saying that one random winning game of chess is the finest that can be played. It's absurd.

  • @jestemtomkiem
    @jestemtomkiem 5 років тому +572

    This is what Spore should have been like

    • @Noctazar
      @Noctazar 5 років тому +10

      Exactly...

    • @MarterElectronics
      @MarterElectronics 5 років тому +28

      Combine this with SpaceEngine. That'd be the spore what it should have been like ^^

    • @Noctazar
      @Noctazar 5 років тому +9

      Also the Space Stage could take some cues from Stellaris. :D

    • @frankb5728
      @frankb5728 5 років тому +9

      man, I had so much fun with the first few stages then it turned into an RTS... great creature editor but poor game, I wish they would revisit the concept.

    • @leopoldobonessio64
      @leopoldobonessio64 5 років тому +8

      they wanted to make a realistical simulation, that could be used even in accademia, then the "new" current in vg arrived, and to "widen" the audience, ea decided to opt for a "cute" version. This has driven the visionary ideator of this game to abandon game design forever

  • @shannonfick7170
    @shannonfick7170 3 роки тому +20

    This video is beyond amazing! Like the amount of work that would have had to go into this simulation is astounding and you explain things so well! You have a new “blob”scriber here 😊

  • @Table53
    @Table53 5 років тому +214

    If anyone wants to play around with their own simulation there's a 'game' on steam called Gridworld which is a wonderful 2D evolution simulator

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 5 років тому +1

      Thank you so much! I've been googling for a while, should have just read the comments.

    • @Table53
      @Table53 5 років тому +7

      @@conlon4332 It's a fantastic simulation, but because of its 'depth' it can need to run for a long time before anything acting like a creature appears and too memory intensive to run on, say, an old laptop. But other than that it's really interesting!

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 5 років тому

      @@Table53 Well my laptop is pretty new, so it should be ok. I have steam, so I'll go check it out now. I had to go out (take my cat to the vet, routine appointment) and I have just gotten home.

    • @Table53
      @Table53 5 років тому +1

      @@conlon4332 Well if it doesn't you can always refund it through Steam if you have used it for

    • @conlon4332
      @conlon4332 5 років тому +4

      @@Table53 Hmm, looks interesting, but it doesn't look like you do anything. Cool, but not what I'm looking for at the moment.

  • @loddydobbs3023
    @loddydobbs3023 3 роки тому +359

    me: hated school, dropped out of college, can’t stand learning
    also me: math man play god, must pull all nighter

    • @ziyeren5509
      @ziyeren5509 2 роки тому

      People think education Based socio-economical selection = doctrina & sciencia, if people are dumb enough to mix that up then humanity has no hope.

    • @t-boi8327
      @t-boi8327 2 роки тому +32

      Humans are naturally curious but school kills that narural curiosity by making learning less fun and more difficult

    • @NothingHere9911-blank
      @NothingHere9911-blank 2 роки тому +3

      @@t-boi8327 yes

    • @Lena-xy8id
      @Lena-xy8id 2 роки тому +2

      yeah I love researching stuff but hate school now

    • @masterblaster2678
      @masterblaster2678 2 роки тому +16

      @@t-boi8327 School's goal seems less like teaching valuable knowledge and more like preparing the student for a lifetime of hardships and constant working. Learning is made to be unnecessarily difficult and is limited to a time frame to make you a more "efficient" worker.
      Those who drop out of school don't drop out because they don't have the intellectual capacity, it's because they don't have the patience to deal with the bullshit schools keep putting them through. In reverse, it also means that those who have managed to graduate aren't smart by default. Some really dumb people graduate because they spend their entire lives studying, staying on top of projects and homeworks.
      School's just there to make the idea of wasting your entire life away working just to make ends meet seem a normal thing.

  • @moussesucree
    @moussesucree 5 років тому +717

    Dude I want a game like this with tons of parameters. Like a puzzle game: I have an environment, and i need to create the best creature.

  • @FoxerZ
    @FoxerZ Рік тому

    2:36 I love how this guy explained directional selection, stabilizing selection and disruptive selection is easy to understand terms.

  • @Letsrockthisgame
    @Letsrockthisgame 4 роки тому +240

    The timing of getting this in my feed is just unbelievable. Good one youtube

    • @Mamhnane
      @Mamhnane 4 роки тому

      Letsrockthis game Corona suggested videos are popping up like crazy lol 😂

    • @giordanotucci8254
      @giordanotucci8254 4 роки тому +6

      Oh gosh, all this talking about corona is tiring... let's see if there's something distracting here...
      *Natural Selection*
      Very reassuring...

  • @jpa3974
    @jpa3974 5 років тому +106

    It would be interesting to increase the environment size and make the food abundant on one side and rare on the other to see if the original species would evolve into two distinct populations.

    • @cameoshadowness7757
      @cameoshadowness7757 5 років тому +3

      Probably not but it'll be cool to see.

    • @paavojordman
      @paavojordman 5 років тому +8

      It's interesting that this kind of happened already, at 8:13 and again at 8:22.
      So there maybe isn't need for different habitats (food etc) in different parts of enviroment, part of population just randomly selects different strategy than the others.

    • @benjaminjones8782
      @benjaminjones8782 5 років тому +1

      I n dent as in

  • @handsomehobo1270
    @handsomehobo1270 5 років тому +1162

    Is because "survival of the fittest" isn't about the most physical fit creature surviving... It's about the best fitting creature to it's environment.

    • @prodruc
      @prodruc 5 років тому +52

      Handsome Hobo That ain’t it chief. Survival of the fittest is about whoever can pass on their genes. For example, Scrappy the Cat has many different diseases and is starving. He had 7 kids with an old hooker on the streets. All of the kids live. Kenny the Tiger is 7 foot, built like Hulk Hogan, and gets with all the mo fukin ladies bruh. He had 3 kids with his model wife and they all lived. Scrappy the Cat is technically more fit because he has more of his genes and traits existing than Kenny the Tiger does. So keep fukin bitches 👻

    • @ingwiafraujaz3126
      @ingwiafraujaz3126 5 років тому +57

      That's what "fittest" means, ya dork.

    • @handsomehobo1270
      @handsomehobo1270 5 років тому +27

      Dude, it's like nobody even listens.

    • @goldenageofdinosaurs7192
      @goldenageofdinosaurs7192 5 років тому +11

      Handsome Hobo You can have a mudskipper. It’s not as highly evolved as a rainbow trout in a river environment. But, if the river dries up, the trout is ducked. The mudskipper can breath air & will make it until it finds another stream, or the river runs again.

    • @MidianVGC
      @MidianVGC 5 років тому +26

      Actually it’s not survival of the fittest it’s survival of the okayest.

  • @_leaf-3525
    @_leaf-3525 3 роки тому +3

    why am i so addicted to these videos? like, im not even trying to learn anything. im just watching blobs move around for hours

    • @Illumi123
      @Illumi123 3 роки тому +1

      Me too

    • @_leaf-3525
      @_leaf-3525 2 роки тому +1

      lmao i forgot i made this comment

  • @nipunasudha
    @nipunasudha 5 років тому +1762

    *Can you simulate how would Thanos's Snap balance an imaginary world?*

    • @amazingleomar6885
      @amazingleomar6885 5 років тому +180

      I think it wouldn’t change anything. Since you reduce the population but not the resources, you never changed the carrying capacity so the remaining population is free to reproduce rapidly until it returns to the same level

    • @awesomenova09
      @awesomenova09 5 років тому +4

      do it! do it!

    • @amazingleomar6885
      @amazingleomar6885 5 років тому +37

      @Bug Batts but he didn’t do exactly as he says. In the movie only the heroes species are affected, you never see a plant disappear from Wakanda. Also all the heroes inanimate objects on their person, like their costumes, are destroyed as well. So half of all life might be what Thanos says but it isn’t what he does

    • @panchocesar1
      @panchocesar1 5 років тому +4

      How about that people can only have 2 kids.
      Make huge farms so food don't ran off
      People who kill for no reason gets kill and their body sell as meat so we can have that type of cannibalism
      ( That is what I get from what I been reading that others say )
      How about that the earth has a law or something that the earth has to have no less than 1 three per every 4 human beings
      What do you people on the internet think about it?.

    • @JD-wv1yi
      @JD-wv1yi 5 років тому +7

      If anything this proves that thanos was wrong, if population couldn't sustain itself, say they had half the food, then the population would just reduce to a sustainable point again, killing off 50% of everyone when they had to be at a sustainable point to even get there makes no sense.

  • @Usulcardo
    @Usulcardo 5 років тому +18

    7:52 What I find nice with this simulation, is that it shows how most extinction events occur and how populations can adapt through natural selection to almost any modification in their environment given enough time to adapt, generation after generation. This is precisely why humans are such a threat to biodiversity, it's because the changes we apply to the environment are too important and done in a too small amount of time for the most specialised species. That's also why usually the first species to disappear are the ones that are the most specialised and the ones that manage to stay around us and survive are the ones with the most adaptability like crows, rats and foxes. Paradoxically, and sadly, those are the species humans usually hate and want dead when, really, they should be admired.

  • @hexsiongaming4462
    @hexsiongaming4462 4 роки тому +348

    9:09
    _"Remember, kids. When you grow up, you all will turn into Son Goku"_
    *Primer - 2018*

    • @zegetalegend8165
      @zegetalegend8165 4 роки тому +9

      Why does does Goku hav the Majin symbol

    • @its_w4yne
      @its_w4yne 3 роки тому +8

      Didn't you listen? The species is evolving, not the individuals.
      So please tell your kids that if they keep eating colorful pills, *their great great grand children* are going to be Son Goku!

    • @keanunmoskaluk3518
      @keanunmoskaluk3518 3 роки тому +4

      @@its_w4yne instructions unclear, little tommy ate LSD and tripped balls

    • @reaper_is_unavailable
      @reaper_is_unavailable 3 роки тому

      Return to monke, super monke

    • @Gia1911Logous
      @Gia1911Logous 2 роки тому

      @@zegetalegend8165 majin kakarot majin kakarot

  • @salem-01
    @salem-01 3 роки тому +6

    This was a really interesting video! I usually have a bit of a hard time understanding the variables you use and stuff, but this one was quite simple!

    • @WinterNox
      @WinterNox 2 роки тому

      I, am happy for you

  •  5 років тому +40

    your videos has super high production quality and are fun to watch!

  • @mistersebaa6245
    @mistersebaa6245 5 років тому +2873

    Anti-vaxxers: *Exists*
    Natural Selection: *Allow us to introduce ourselves.*

    • @aiugiamos3057
      @aiugiamos3057 5 років тому +59

      Please do, we don't need weak and/or inefficient blobs to replicate.

    • @robertsteele672
      @robertsteele672 5 років тому +15

      Of course they can survive. But there is a lower chance of survival. That’s the driving force behind natural selection.

    • @fleshypotato4307
      @fleshypotato4307 5 років тому +48

      Our ancestors did survive without vaccinations, but the mortality rate was much higher than what it is now. It depends on how good your immune system is and how much you can tolerate diseases. Vaccinations are meant, not as a cure, but as a prevention for people with a weaker immune system, as well as a fail safe for the strong. Which is why I think it's necessary.

    • @feralmagick7177
      @feralmagick7177 5 років тому +11

      Its amazing how people forget the haulocost and how they said they were "immunizing" the populace for their own good and instead experimented on them with the injections. Some people would rather not take the chance of being potentially tested on and some people donr actuallt have the immune system to support a vaccination. There are alot more fatalities from vaccinations than popular sources will allow you to know. I would much rather trust the doctors and scientists who are not being paid off and share wvidence and personal records than a hundred people being paid to day the same thing. If i die, i die. Its nature. We arent supposed to live in such a cushy ass world anyways. Thats why we are all stupid and overpopulated.

    • @GamersPhYsIcSPyro
      @GamersPhYsIcSPyro 5 років тому +1

      Sebastian the Weeb I mean I’m not an anti-vaxxer but you must be able to hear how oxymoronic that sounds...

  • @elietheprof5678
    @elietheprof5678 5 років тому +120

    For a probablistic prediction, repeat the same simulations many times, each time with different random variance (food positions, mutations, etc)

  • @IDMYM8
    @IDMYM8 2 роки тому +2

    I had put a like on this video. It's so good, all the math and graph looks painting to me.

  • @riaalto9488
    @riaalto9488 5 років тому +82

    Wow. Evolution simulators are awesome, but this is even better! The little happy eating animation the blobs have is so cute, and the end made me realize this was a Biology lesson in the form of a fun game. X)

  • @CapnSlipp
    @CapnSlipp 5 років тому +243

    Suggestion: 3D plots are much easier to understand on a 2D screen if you “shadow” the dots onto the XY, XZ, & YZ planes between the axises. Just a suggestion to make it clearer for us to understand what's going on.

    • @DisKorruptd
      @DisKorruptd 5 років тому +9

      see, I was thinking of if he'd done a 3D bar graph rather than a 3D point plotter, or like, had 3 axis lines going to each face from the dots, something to show where those dots align on each graph

    • @josesolisrosales
      @josesolisrosales 5 років тому +1

      what about a density 3d map. I don't know their name, but they look like the topological representation of something. would that work?

    • @amphibious8063
      @amphibious8063 5 років тому +9

      I think he did a pretty good job with the 3d graph. Speed is the axis "facing" us and speed is also indicated by the color of the points, so it was pretty easy to understand imo

    • @steezliner
      @steezliner 5 років тому +3

      Really douchey comment incoming, but: "axes"

    • @remykirkman2231
      @remykirkman2231 5 років тому

      Nerds

  • @daniellandoe8069
    @daniellandoe8069 5 років тому +70

    Being born into a rich family is the real life equivalent to spawning next to a minecraft village

    • @edgepixel8467
      @edgepixel8467 5 років тому +6

      Daniel Landoe
      Being born into a rich family is equivalent to being born into a rich family

    • @99batran
      @99batran 5 років тому +3

      Minecraft village on top of a underwater ruin on top of shipwrecks

    • @edgepixel8467
      @edgepixel8467 5 років тому

      Abacus
      Noob? Sorry for not being impressed with deep insights about life using Minecraft comparisons. How old are you, triggeredboy?

  • @LLTheRuckus
    @LLTheRuckus 2 роки тому +1

    This is one of coolest things I have ever seen and I want to know how to use this. Please keep making videos on this simulator. Keep making them more and more in-depth. Longer videos. Maybe get a scientist guest speaker, behavioralists, genetics, psychology... etc. It's endless what you could do. You could basically create your own ecosystem. How big can the world get? This is so cool.

  • @colestevens3514
    @colestevens3514 5 років тому +569

    Why can't they just share the food like good children

    • @hagalathekido
      @hagalathekido 5 років тому +87

      if you give away 1 food you have 1 less food

    • @silkworm2595
      @silkworm2595 5 років тому +26

      Because they're soulless blobs

    • @FrikInCasualMode
      @FrikInCasualMode 5 років тому +68

      Because blobs are not intelligent enough. Humans evolved altruism because we are social creatures. No society = dead human. We simply can't survive on our own. Thus, we learned to sacrifice some of our personal succes, to increase the succes of society. For example: I caught 10 fish, while my neighbour caught none. If i eat all 10, i'll be well fed, but my neighbour will starve to death. But if i give him 5 of my fish, we both eat some, we both survive and there is significant chance my neighbour will reciprocate and share his catch when i won't have any fish to eat - and that way we both survive longer. Altruistic societies survived more often than egoistic ones - and presto, we have volunteers, charities, firemen, doctors and rescuers. Food banks, humanitarian aid, peacekeepers, blood banks, organ donor lists and so on, and so on.

    • @yl3766
      @yl3766 5 років тому +2

      @@FrikInCasualMode well said

    • @fe1ip3
      @fe1ip3 5 років тому +29

      *COMMUNISM*

  • @EastCoastPeace3
    @EastCoastPeace3 5 років тому +675

    Primer: "Speed, size, sense..."
    America: "GUN."
    Primer: "no"

    • @orangetruffle6024
      @orangetruffle6024 5 років тому +4

      persephone p me an American: GUN

    • @martyloso6433
      @martyloso6433 5 років тому +8

      persephone p guns can also put you in jail, which you can lose your reproductive rights.

    • @martyloso6433
      @martyloso6433 5 років тому +1

      JBryan314 well put

    • @aoli8142
      @aoli8142 5 років тому +3

      Would be pretty darn cool to see how knowledge of using and making tools would affect this experiment.

    • @amartyamishra6961
      @amartyamishra6961 5 років тому

      Cracked me up BAD lmao

  • @dillxdough
    @dillxdough 3 роки тому +250

    I kinda had an idea about how the last experiment with reduced food was going to play out. I live in a desert; most wild creatures are small and fast. It made sense to me.
    Super neat explanation.

    • @shuttittuppitt9355
      @shuttittuppitt9355 2 роки тому +9

      Sounds like the road runner & coyote cartoons.

    • @shayanrd
      @shayanrd Рік тому +1

      also i think if sense is high the "blobs" need higher speed than others or else they get eaten. Then again that makes size not important since everyone runs away. Honestly its just a complex system even tho it seems easy at first

  • @PAWsomeCATastrophe
    @PAWsomeCATastrophe 3 роки тому +1

    I'm not fully sure what i started to watch but it look beautiful :D
    I love how the colors change with the generations and the time laps just look so beautiful that way!
    You for sure explain all this very well and it seems as interesting type of simulator. And also the way its visualized look really good. Just looks so good.

  • @diego_oo84
    @diego_oo84 3 роки тому +632

    7:39 this actually shows how creatures can extinct if a drastic change happened to the environment without giving time to the creatures to adapt. This could happen in real life due climate change.

    • @pietersfilms5171
      @pietersfilms5171 3 роки тому +17

      Every interesting

    • @landericus
      @landericus 3 роки тому +8

      @Babba Yaaga Just because climate change is mostly agreed to exist doesn’t mean its actually going to cause any big impact or problems. The seriousness of the issue is often disagreed upon.

    • @landericus
      @landericus 3 роки тому +18

      Same thing with “evolution”. We experience evolution though adaptation, not drastic changes like what it is made out to be. There is no solid proof for drastic change, it is only theory.

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 3 роки тому +72

      already IS happening. we've lost hundreds of species of fish, and THOUSANDS of species of insects, directly attributable to global warming's effects on tropical environments, which by and large have been stable for thousands of years before the last 50 years. in the last 20, the noticeable effects have ramped up exponentially.

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 3 роки тому +11

      @@landericus it already HAS. sorry you've decided to put your head up your ass to spend your days spelunking, but the world has moved on from 1920. better catch up.

  • @hatebagel9523
    @hatebagel9523 5 років тому +24

    Thank you so much primer for this video, I've been looking for something like this for such a long time because biology and coding are some of my two favorite topics and I've been wanting to make a simulation like this for such a long time

  • @Akotski-ys9rr
    @Akotski-ys9rr 3 роки тому +85

    5:37 I like how it’s eyes get bigger and smaller 😂

    • @SP-4
      @SP-4 2 роки тому +2

      Yeah lol

  • @joolyyt376
    @joolyyt376 3 роки тому +82

    The best example of natural selection are Giraffes, over the years Giraffe’s necks have increased in length as the higher the Giraffes can reach the more food they can get. Meaning the shorter necked Giraffes had a lower survival rate. 🦒

    • @fredneecher1746
      @fredneecher1746 2 роки тому +1

      Neat hypothesis. Where's the evidence?

    • @jordanjohansenmusic
      @jordanjohansenmusic Рік тому

      Incredible scientific work! Especially all the evidence

    • @coryv6947
      @coryv6947 Рік тому +1

      Nah it’s to fight and get Giraffussy

  • @RegalPlatypus
    @RegalPlatypus 6 років тому +358

    Fantastic video, but you missed an opportunity to highlight an observation: When you suddenly reduced the food to ten units a day, the population was wiped out. If this was the whole species, they went extinct. This didn't happen when you gradually reduced their food.
    That's a perfect illustration of species needing time to adapt and that's one reason why climate change and other anthropogenic factors are so critically important! It's the rate of the changes, not just their magnitude, that's potentially devastating!

    • @Cl0ckcl0ck
      @Cl0ckcl0ck 5 років тому +2

      Maybe for very small and slow lifeforms and without human intervention. I can cook a meal from the poles and all continents so for humans there is literally no issue. We can guarantee food security of a fraction of the cost we would need to spend to negate climate change by simply moving the food production to a more fully controlled environment powered by sources outside that environment. And the ice ages have shown us that nature is perfectly fine with climate change as the starts and ends of ice ages are far far far more extreme changes than anything that is predicted for climate change.

    • @EnDSchultz1
      @EnDSchultz1 5 років тому +30

      The magnitude of ice ages is great but glaciation cycles happen over tens of thousands of years, not a century or two as is the case with anthropogenic causes. That's literally the point of what the OP was saying.

    • @skyacaniadev2229
      @skyacaniadev2229 5 років тому +4

      It is more like a lack of social order, if those creature can cooperate, they definetely will select their equivalence of high valuable people to have those food to survive and carry on the civilization as humans will do and did (I know it is tempting to think human will just kill each other and die like Walking Dead). Unfortunately, those agents are more like dinasours and they extinct.

    • @sampokemppainen3041
      @sampokemppainen3041 5 років тому +1

      @@Cl0ckcl0ck new diseases vs world without oil. That's going to be fun.

    • @ramuthra1
      @ramuthra1 5 років тому +1

      I think this observation was implicit. You and I both thought the same thing, and (hopefully) most other people watching the video realized it too.

  • @Snowplosion
    @Snowplosion 5 років тому +406

    I literally went and the first 10 seconds of this video I was like oh YEAH subscribe

  • @jonniboye6399
    @jonniboye6399 3 роки тому +463

    I'd be curious to see a similar simulation, except with distinct different species (green blobs can only eat food pieces, red blobs can only eat green blobs, etc) and see how those vary. And maybe add a nomadic-type species that doesn't have to go home each day, goes slowly and just lives wherever it finds food.

    • @RaeBriar
      @RaeBriar 3 роки тому +44

      I was curious to see how it would work with just the size mutation or sense. I'm kind of sad he didn't and just jumped into showing all of them together. What you said would of been interesting to see too.

    • @dabbot1136
      @dabbot1136 3 роки тому +2

      That is interesting

    • @insert_username_here
      @insert_username_here 3 роки тому +18

      Wow, I would love to see a simulation of nomadic, Hunter gatherer blobs and societal blobs get simulated in the same environment.

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 3 роки тому +10

      now add sexual selection and drift. watch your computer explode.

    • @மேலும்சிவசு
      @மேலும்சிவசு Рік тому

      oh prey and pradtor simulation I seeee............ SUS

  • @gabrielmiller9517
    @gabrielmiller9517 3 роки тому +4

    Part of what makes climate change so devastating is the way environments are changing faster than populations can evolve. 7:22 seemed like a good example of what is leading to mass extinction in the 21st century. Thanks for the great video!

  • @blinkstanks
    @blinkstanks 5 років тому +243

    5:30 Annoying pokemon trainers when they see you

    • @KodaBunn
      @KodaBunn 4 роки тому +10

      this is so underated

    • @Bananappleboy
      @Bananappleboy 4 роки тому +10

      Pokemon Trainers: *_proceeds to eat the tiny player_*