She did not hold back. Scientific communication at its best. Simplified the complicated, presented an interesting story, wonderful analogies and highlighted how ignorance persists in America. Loved it!
I was glad she inserted the rare admission that historically scientific fact is often overturned by newer evidence, methodology and/or theory. These are becoming less frequent either by resistance from establishment or ever increasing knowledge base. The internet and social media have reshaped us fatter than any single event in history, for better or worse. But science can now share ideas and findings as they're happening. Hopefully scientists are beginning to see this as opportunity rather than the old model of guarding info as a commodity to be hidden away until it can be revealed in effort to bring fame to the individual. Isn't that ironic as most science is funded by the taxes of all of us. I'll get it my soapbox but end by saying how exciting this new age of research is even for us laypeople.
@@davidclaytonfreeman3306 I'm going to push back on the idea that scientists horde information. There may be some percentage of them that do, and possibly for some good reasons besides just self glory, but scientists, in general, seem quite willing to sharing information. Plus, at some point, their work needs to be peer reviewed if their findings are going to be taken seriously and the fame you claim they seek can be showered on them.
Love it! I’m a recent arrival to evolution and I’m trying to understand it and leave behind the superstition I grew up with as many of us did . We were brainwashed with fear !
@@saviourjc When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert M. Pirsig
@@saviourjc We currently have Satellites that can see way back over 13 billion years towards the beginnings of our Universe, a time when Galaxies didn't even exist yet in our Universe, and only certain elements like Hydrogen and Helium existed. We now know exactly how Stars like our Sun were formed, and what all life on Earth is made of. *And that's by the way with our old Satellites like Hubble. The new version of Hubble (J Webb) makes Hubble seem like a payphone compared to a new iPhone. No need for God's, Demons, Ghosts, and Devils anymore. Now we just need Humans to finally get over their sense of entitlement and embrace their mortality just as we expect other animal's to do when we kill them to eat them.
I really enjoyed this. The presenter is quite knowledgeable in the subject and is able to present the information in a concise, interesting style. We need MORE science communicators like her.
A quiet smirk is more socially accepted than a giggle or loud laughter. Humor varies within give social groups, men and women find different things to be funny. How can you tell the difference between someone "who" served in the military and who is Really a Soldier/ Sailor with a group of "civilians " The civilians and that guy who served in the military, don't get the joke.
Dan Engle you can tell she spends most of her time in her logic center of the brain. Hard to explain just how I know this other than that I think and act similarly and it makes for being a bit socially oblivious. Kind of like being able to tell someone is high due to having been (or being) the same kind of high yourself. So intelligent may not be the right word, but you can tell she’s a nerd!
@@alanparedes2034 You don't get to be a PhD, let alone a nationally recognized one, without being highly intelligent. She's examined the raw genetic data and actually dug up fossils to research, but you don't agree with what she has to say so she must be a dum dum...
A little disconcerting that so few have viewed this when videos of pseudoscience receive many more views. I sometimes wonder if our brains are branching into two groups with radically different perceptions of reality.
Yes that IS what our brains are doing. Speech is thought. On one side we have those who suppress speech (i e. suppress thought) in favor of merely EMOTING at the world. And of course, emotion standing alone crowds out logic, reason, and concern for facts---indeed, emotion originates in the most primitive parts of our brain...the limbic system. The modern SJW resides primarily---sometimes exclusively---within that limbic system. This explains why democrats increasingly despise free speech, facts, and reason.
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...following in the footsteps of the people across the isle.
Good hypothesis. But this is dimilar to PR, at least on UA-cam. Uneducated choose clickbait picture and title over something boringly invested in real science's scrupulosity. And then complain of being clickbaited. I watch both and more kinds, as i have more time due to sickness. The gap in knowledge/ intelligence depending on theme and popularity of vid in it's comments are astoundidng..😕✌
Right until the last sentence, I assumed you were writing about Republicans... you know, pro-creationism, anti-climate-change, anti-education, etc.. Care to reconsider your conclusion?
WOW, A VERY BRIGHT, INTERESTING AND ATTRACTIVE WOMAN , WITH A GREAT SMILE AND PRESENTS HER EVIDENCES AND IDEAS MOST EFFECTIVELY AND COHERENTLY ! BRAVO !
I met someone once who was in every outward particular a perfect Neanderthal. It happens that I massaged his shoulders, and found that his bones were much thicker than anyone else's I'd ever felt (and being a massage therapist, I'd felt more bones than most people), which was also consistent with Neanderthal ancestry. He was a social worker, by the way. This was during a period when I had occasion to meet several, and he was the nicest and most empathetic.
If I just had 1 percent of her intelligence . I could carry out a dream of being a pilot . Yet I just drool through out the day . Dreaming . How do people not pass out while near her ? I could sit and listen to her speak over anything . Great speaker , teacher and entertainer .
Very interesting! I love the way our evolutionary history seems to be coming together more and more, with more gaps filled in every decade. I hope I'm around to see more people accept these scientific facts. So much anti-science sentiment in the United States currently.
@eric gartenstiel : most of the content of this video does not matter much to everyday working people... facts are only facts until proven otherwise and science thrives on being proven wrong so scientists can delve further into their work providing more updated theories all the time.
@@daieast6305 I'm working-class. Are you saying that ALL working-class people are not interested in science? I am almost 70 and have been interested in science since my teens.
During my job working at a school I read a translation that was considered to be the earliest statement ever recorded, from the walls of a cave...it was translated to read, "Cro Magnon man sucks.."
It’s Ussher Chronology. He was an archbishop in Ireland during the 1600s. He wasn’t the only person to try and calculate creation dates during era. Isaac Newton, for instance also tried. Some editions of the Bible from the time period have these dates printed, but not all, of course.
I feel like most humans have a sense of kinship and friendship when they think of the neanderthal. Speaking of which, I once saw a teenager that had the facial bonestructure of a neanderthal! It made me do a double take and I know I stared because I couldn't believe how uncanny it seemed. Super cool!
Some times at the Right Places, I yell ," It is True, the Missing Link Do Exist !!" Some people get the joke, others do not find it funny. Vanity and Pride are the worst human sins.
She is the most amazing . Just think if everyone had such passion and love in their work . If she ever needs her equipment carried around . I'm here . I do windows also . 😂
Hamma Lammadingdong actually, I know she was alive because it was documented in history and I believe it. But let’s say that we don’t have OBSERVABLE evidence that every single human is born from other humans. Even then, it doesn’t logically follow that my great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother was a fish.
Hamma Lammadingdong by the way, I did not say that for something to be true, it had to observable by people loving today. And I’m not sure how you read that into what I clearly stated.
"I'm not even going to get into the stats on vaccine safety and climate change cause that's just depressing." We in 2022 wish we had your optimism, Dr. Chang.
@@vaska1999 Perfectly said. Truth is, by definition, absolute. However, our knowledge and understanding will always be imperfect. Recently, most scientific endeavors bring us closer and closer to the Truth, but it is impossible that we could ever understand everything perfectly: we can only try to get as close as we can. THAT SAID, even "Truth" can change over time - for example, the rate at which the universe is expanding - called the "cosmological constant" has been found not to be constant, but accelerating: what was truth for one era, may not be true in a differnt era or context.
@@earlefrost5512 Phenomena (such as the rate of expansion of the universe) can and do change over time, but what you've just described is a truth that remains constant.
Great stuff .. thank you TED talks and thank you Melanie for making this a fun watch and learn .. still meandering offspring of the mating at issue are a joy to conjure when walking through the woods.. MediumFoot ..where are you ?
@michael hoversten : yes, but when the usa became a military dictatorship everybody is working for war based economy, not only military members. so civilian life is almost ended and civilization is in crisis. yours might be a survival reaction to think 'military or no military' about everything, everywhere, and about everybody.
One big issue I have with evolution (besides the fact that evolution theories keep changing) is what she said. "The amount of data that we have is only a painfully small fraction of the total story of our evolutionary history...very very incomplete". Basically, what we know is far too small for us to form any valid conclusions. In the meantime, I'll stick to creation rather than assuming I understand the entire ocean because I've been in a bathtub.
While we aren't at the pinnacle of scientific understanding, there's more evidence for the theory of evolution than for the theory of gravity (relativity) at this point. If you still want to reject it that's fine, but which creation story would you go with? There's more than 1 creation story out there.
@@goodday512 I'll go with the Christian Bible's account. We have more evidence for the existence (and authenticity) of Jesus Christ than we do of Shakespeare, yet there are billions who don't believe in Him. The presence of some evidence does not equal validity for so many reasons (interpretation of such evidence for example). I don't "reject" evolution as a whole, I just can't accept something that even the authors have often changed their thoughts about, and acknowledge is severely incomplete. Especially since as a Christian, I believe my eternity is at stake here. I know this opens a can of worms, but I have my well thought out reasons.
@@topsydoddle1 There's evidence for Jesus Christ? Really? I'd love to know what that evidence is, especially as you think there's more evidence for him than Shakespeare!
@@goodday512 Without even doing much further research, there are thousands of manuscript and historic records, including those from at least three major worldwide religions that may not always like each other (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) and many historic references of Him that date back thousands of years. Compare that with the few dozens there are of Shakespeare even though Shakespeare lived in a far more recent and advanced time where records were much more available.
@@topsydoddle1 Please name me just one extra-biblical contemporary reference to a living breathing Jesus Christ. We don't even have an eye witness account of him. But the thing is, even we could definitively demonstrate Jesus did exist, that still gets us nowhere near demonstrating that he had supernatural powers.
Just remember... Nebraska man was created using a single tooth..they constructed a complete skeleton based off of a single tooth.. later discovered to be a pigs tooth
@@jensraab2902 When you begin with a pre-ordained, literally god-given (well, in his opinion...) conclusion, no facts will ever change your mind. Creationists start out with a belief, then try to make the data/observations/facts seem to support that belief - as well as trying with all their might to poke holes in other possible explanations. Convictions make convicts - hardcore belief systems harden your intellectual core so that the light of truth can't penetrate it.
@@jensraab2902 That's because scientific understanding is not his goal. Evolution is such a broadside at religion idiots like Ham have been forced to deal with it, however.
I have no problem listening to progress and discoveries regarding evolution. I'm also very comfortable with my faith in God and do not consider myself "brainwashed". As the evolution scientist works to refine the discovery so does a believer refine their belief as they live. Believe me there is more to God than the first chapter of Genesis. I'm waiting for the day a scientist can explain to me how for instance the pancreas developed, other than the go to "billions of years" of evolution. No my point is that something with specific purpose does not accidentally mutate into existence. How does the body know it needs to monitor blood sugar? How does the pancreas generate insulin which can reduce it? How did the electrical connections fall into place for the brain to trigger it? Billions of years just can't be the answer.
@@williamseigler3408 She did. A Donald Rumsfeld joke is not indicative of political bias except for the most sensitive among us. Btw, none of the science is political at all...
Her remarks about vaccines and climate change hint that she knows the real nature of these theories. The fact is, she doesn't also she seems to be a very smart woman.
I argue in my book that their skull was superior to ours and I have a theory that we feared them for their intelligence and wiped them out for being in seclusion.
A spy classifies himself. Whatever you desire they will help you with it. They gave me astrophysicist classification that I didn't ask for it but I like it. I'm not a scientist but I'm an artist. They wanted an astrophysicist that was an artist. It's perfectly normal for the people to think like an artist with a simple mind. It's science that new and has a complex mind that need expensive training.
Artists do not have simple minds. They work hard to see what is unique about their interests. Art, it is sometimes said, is communicating emotion thrugh some medium.
A really engaging presenter. My only critique is when she let her world view biases take over. Stick to the subject which you did a really good job presenting. When you stray into group identity commentary around wide ranging topics like global warming, creationism, big bang cosmology, vaccines, etc...and try to lump people into some kind of collective (using Donald Rumsfeld of all people as your universal representative sample), you start squandering all of the good will you had established.
Interesting. Also, raises a question about what percentage of human to human intimacy happened with consent, and same question about human with neanderthal. Seems modern humans are likely more gentle and considerate, emotionally evolved that is.
The "human" ancestors are quite easy to locate. Research the time when King James, the planet's first Communist, re-wrote the Holy Bible, twice, and you will not only find the "origin" of the human, but also the word.
So the fact that something has just as many digits as us doesn't make us more closely related compared to something else because DNA is more complicated then that but homology is a good indicator of us being related to everything?
We actually evolved from what all life began as, a CLUMP OF CHEMICALS....... but living viruses, We have more RETRO virus genes than protein genes in our genome. Those viruses helped to to quickly adapt to environmental changes, which microorganism can do but not MULTI-cellular organism. So the virus got us here.
Georgie Fong : Viruses don't have enough DNA/RNA to encode information for life - so require the chemical machinery of a cell to exist - grow and reproduce; they take over the cell machinery to make Virus. Viruses cannot therefore be a precursor organism as they exist without cellular life. Clearly there was a precursor to the cell, likely to be some membrane surfactant or rock based surface to act as a support/catalyst to chemical reactions. Unfortunately these "chemicals/life" cannot compete with modern life so we cannot find examples now, and they don't create fossil traces.
Hotep ... epigenetics is part of Science. Perhaps you could enlarge your vision a little bit. Try, for instance, the speech by Dr. Nessa Carey, at the Royal Institution. It doesn't seem fantasie to me (and she is not alone, of course). There is no place in sciences for fantasies . Otherwise it becomes science fiction.
we like to ask questions. we like to ponder and think about the world and life around us. if all of the questions were answered life would be a very boring place.
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Melanie Chang is a brilliant science communicator! I hope more people like her speak up for science to the wider public
you got a thing for dog eating chang dude?
would you like to buy some Magic Beans. You bought her FAIRYTALE STORY, so i have some MAGICAL beans for sale also.
talking snakes and zombies leaving their graves is far more plausible
She did not hold back. Scientific communication at its best. Simplified the complicated, presented an interesting story, wonderful analogies and highlighted how ignorance persists in America. Loved it!
I was glad she inserted the rare admission that historically scientific fact is often overturned by newer evidence, methodology and/or theory. These are becoming less frequent either by resistance from establishment or ever increasing knowledge base. The internet and social media have reshaped us fatter than any single event in history, for better or worse. But science can now share ideas and findings as they're happening. Hopefully scientists are beginning to see this as opportunity rather than the old model of guarding info as a commodity to be hidden away until it can be revealed in effort to bring fame to the individual. Isn't that ironic as most science is funded by the taxes of all of us. I'll get it my soapbox but end by saying how exciting this new age of research is even for us laypeople.
@@davidclaytonfreeman3306 I'm going to push back on the idea that scientists horde information. There may be some percentage of them that do, and possibly for some good reasons besides just self glory, but scientists, in general, seem quite willing to sharing information. Plus, at some point, their work needs to be peer reviewed if their findings are going to be taken seriously and the fame you claim they seek can be showered on them.
@@hulldragon yes to each his own opinion.
I noticed she missed the part about Jesus saying that Adam and Eve were the first people...
This is a favorite Ted Talk for me. Her enthusiasm and humor really sell it.
Love it! I’m a recent arrival to evolution and I’m trying to understand it and leave behind the superstition I grew up with as many of us did . We were brainwashed with fear !
Christianity and Western religions are nothing but fear based
She is not only bright, but an engaging and interesting speaker.
professing themselves to be wise they became fools - "In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth" GENESIS 1:1
hope you had your hands over your ears when she said dinosaurs and humans never co-existed
@@saviourjc When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion it is called religion. - Robert M. Pirsig
@@saviourjc We currently have Satellites that can see way back over 13 billion years towards the beginnings of our Universe, a time when Galaxies didn't even exist yet in our Universe, and only certain elements like Hydrogen and Helium existed. We now know exactly how Stars like our Sun were formed, and what all life on Earth is made of. *And that's by the way with our old Satellites like Hubble. The new version of Hubble (J Webb) makes Hubble seem like a payphone compared to a new iPhone. No need for God's, Demons, Ghosts, and Devils anymore. Now we just need Humans to finally get over their sense of entitlement and embrace their mortality just as we expect other animal's to do when we kill them to eat them.
What a great speaker that young woman is. She made the whole subject very interesting - and left me wanting to know more.
What an engaging speaker! I hope that she will provide another TEDTalk to update us on the progress that has been made since 2014.
This woman is such a delightful and intelligent teacher and communicator with a lovely smile thru out her presentation !
I really enjoyed this. The presenter is quite knowledgeable in the subject and is able to present the information in a concise, interesting style. We need MORE science communicators like her.
I'm in love
My first thought exactly
Awesome presentation! Well laid out with humor, but appeared the audience couldn't recognize the humorous phrases embedded in the talk. Good job!
I know... right?!
A quiet smirk is more socially accepted than a giggle or loud laughter.
Humor varies within give social groups, men and women find different things to be funny.
How can you tell the difference between someone "who" served in the military and who is Really a Soldier/ Sailor with a group of "civilians "
The civilians and that guy who served in the military, don't get the joke.
@moyosore atobatele : what did you find so amusing or humorous?
Mel speaks faster than most people can think. She always has. At least now that it’s on video, they can watch again and hear what they missed.
Neanderthals didn't go extinct, I've worked with many of them, and they can crack walnuts on their forehead 😁
My gene lab showed I'm about 80% neanderthal
That IS a nice profile pic; subscribes.
Are you talking about my uncle Vincenzo?
Darwinism is nothing more than fairy tale
@@NeoN-PeoN That's a lie. 1 to 4 percent isn't much but some will claim it's everything.
She knocked it out of the park, what an excellent presentation. She had me at the IKEA catalog.
This is what it means to do what you have passion about, what a flawless science communication 👋🏼👋🏼👋🏼
Wonderful presentation. Highly intelligent woman.
I didn't think she was particularly intelligent.
Dan Engle you can tell she spends most of her time in her logic center of the brain. Hard to explain just how I know this other than that I think and act similarly and it makes for being a bit socially oblivious. Kind of like being able to tell someone is high due to having been (or being) the same kind of high yourself. So intelligent may not be the right word, but you can tell she’s a nerd!
@@alanparedes2034 You don't get to be a PhD, let alone a nationally recognized one, without being highly intelligent. She's examined the raw genetic data and actually dug up fossils to research, but you don't agree with what she has to say so she must be a dum dum...
@@kelseyharris892 lol
@nicki lovesdogs : no such thing as highly intelligent...
Offshore archaeology really excites me because that is the location of the most ancient cities.
Yeah maybe one of those Neanderthal cities !
Yeah maybe one of those Neanderthal cities !
"simply speaking, of course, we know nothing about prehistoric man, for the simple reason that he is prehistoric" GK Chesterton -The Everlasting Man
I think she's endlessly fascinating
Ms. Chang is awesome! Great lecture..
A little disconcerting that so few have viewed this when videos of pseudoscience receive many more views. I sometimes wonder if our brains are branching into two groups with radically different perceptions of reality.
Yes that IS what our brains are doing. Speech is thought. On one side we have those who suppress speech (i e. suppress thought) in favor of merely EMOTING at the world. And of course, emotion standing alone crowds out logic, reason, and concern for facts---indeed, emotion originates in the most primitive parts of our brain...the limbic system. The modern SJW resides primarily---sometimes exclusively---within that limbic system. This explains why democrats increasingly despise free speech, facts, and reason.
...following in the footsteps of the people across the isle.
Good hypothesis. But this is dimilar to PR, at least on UA-cam. Uneducated choose clickbait picture and title over something boringly invested in real science's scrupulosity. And then complain of being clickbaited. I watch both and more kinds, as i have more time due to sickness. The gap in knowledge/ intelligence depending on theme and popularity of vid in it's comments are astoundidng..😕✌
Right until the last sentence, I assumed you were writing about Republicans... you know, pro-creationism, anti-climate-change, anti-education, etc.. Care to reconsider your conclusion?
@@wwssviewer oof hahahahaha. I concur.
WOW, A VERY BRIGHT, INTERESTING AND ATTRACTIVE WOMAN , WITH A GREAT SMILE AND PRESENTS HER EVIDENCES AND IDEAS MOST EFFECTIVELY AND COHERENTLY ! BRAVO !
I met someone once who was in every outward particular a perfect Neanderthal. It happens that I massaged his shoulders, and found that his bones were much thicker than anyone else's I'd ever felt (and being a massage therapist, I'd felt more bones than most people), which was also consistent with Neanderthal ancestry.
He was a social worker, by the way. This was during a period when I had occasion to meet several, and he was the nicest and most empathetic.
If I just had 1 percent of her intelligence . I could carry out a dream of being a pilot . Yet I just drool through out the day . Dreaming . How do people not pass out while near her ? I could sit and listen to her speak over anything . Great speaker , teacher and entertainer .
Beautiful explained! Love her grace and intelligence!
There is nothing as beautiful as education based on science and common sense.
What an orator. Fantastic.
The Rumsfeld quote is from Fernando Flores, a Chilean philosopher and ontologist, it is indeed profound but I doubt Rumsfeld understood why
Melanie rocks.
Yes, she is a rock.
she genuinely admitted we don't have access to real-life data, when it comes to evolution we are constructing a story
@Scientific Humanist we just need to follow the evidence
Brilliant and a most enjoyable presentation!
Very interesting! I love the way our evolutionary history seems to be coming together more and more, with more gaps filled in every decade. I hope I'm around to see more people accept these scientific facts. So much anti-science sentiment in the United States currently.
@eric gartenstiel : most of the content of this video does not matter much to everyday working people... facts are only facts until proven otherwise and science thrives on being proven wrong so scientists can delve further into their work providing more updated theories all the time.
You mean you love how your evilutionary FAIRYTALE is coming together.
you can't educate pork....the previous comment is a great example
@@daieast6305 I'm working-class. Are you saying that ALL working-class people are not interested in science? I am almost 70 and have been interested in science since my teens.
@@paulrichards6894 Sad, isn't it? The anti-science attitude in so many sectors of the US population is both saddening and dangerous.
Drinking random wine by a campfire with her sounds real good.
Where can I sign up? I can use a shovel.
I think I love her!
Nice presentation!!
Great content. A topic that need be addressed without prejudice.
During my job working at a school I read a translation that was considered to be the earliest statement ever recorded, from the walls of a cave...it was translated to read, "Cro Magnon man sucks.."
I once found a postcard saying "Merry x-as and a happy 34.746 BC"
I havent laughed like this in awhile...thanks you Funnyanderthals!!! :)
She is a really good competent speaker! Really enjoyed it
Great presentation.Thank you Melanie.
Anthin.
A great public speaker...
The most impressive part of this, is that she didn't seem to use any notes or prompts .
"The best cure for Christianity is reading the Bible."
Mark Twain
Brilliant and adorable. Excellent combination.
I enjoy TEDx Talks in general, but this is the best I've seen to date.
She stated, "October 22, 4004 BC is printed in some editions of the Bible as the date of creation." Which edition of the Bible?
@troy drury : i guess these days, folks do not have to actually read the bible to speak as an authority on it's content.
It’s Ussher Chronology. He was an archbishop in Ireland during the 1600s. He wasn’t the only person to try and calculate creation dates during era. Isaac Newton, for instance also tried. Some editions of the Bible from the time period have these dates printed, but not all, of course.
I feel like most humans have a sense of kinship and friendship when they think of the neanderthal. Speaking of which, I once saw a teenager that had the facial bonestructure of a neanderthal! It made me do a double take and I know I stared because I couldn't believe how uncanny it seemed. Super cool!
Some times at the Right Places, I yell ," It is True, the Missing Link Do Exist !!"
Some people get the joke, others do not find it funny.
Vanity and Pride are the worst human sins.
That was one of my favorites from Ted.Awesome -Thanks for posting it
She is the most amazing . Just think if everyone had such passion and love in their work . If she ever needs her equipment carried around . I'm here . I do windows also . 😂
Science = observation
History = documentation
Darwinian Evolution = speculation (yes, if no one was around to observe it, it's speculative)
Troy Drury - was your great-great-great-great-great grandma born? No one alive ever saw it.
It’s speculation.
Hamma Lammadingdong actually, I know she was alive because it was documented in history and I believe it. But let’s say that we don’t have OBSERVABLE evidence that every single human is born from other humans. Even then, it doesn’t logically follow that my great, great, great, great, great, great, great grandmother was a fish.
Hamma Lammadingdong by the way, I did not say that for something to be true, it had to observable by people loving today. And I’m not sure how you read that into what I clearly stated.
Great presentation!!!
great that this was broken down it to simple teams even for someone like me understand
Me think you funny!
@@@easywind4044 : u b the most funny of all !
dai east I don’t remember what I said. What did I say?
Please share these brief videos with other people. Thanks!
Very good. Enjoyed this.
Neanderthals who raised ornamental flowering shrubs were called Oleanderthals.
Hahahahaaa
great lecture. Thanks for the good insides. 👍😳
" I'm not even going to get into the stats on vaccine safety and climate change because that's just depressing " ~ Melanie Chang
Upson Pratt of course...
Rumsfeld was SECDEF not State.
Kreigsminister Rumsfeld is a weenie!!!!!!!!!!!
He was a bleedin' warmonger!! His, and probably a lot of other wars, were started largely for profit.
"I'm not even going to get into the stats on vaccine safety and climate change cause that's just depressing."
We in 2022 wish we had your optimism, Dr. Chang.
Best Christmas Ever!
Watched all of it, I think I watched this before maybe in another upload
Great mind, great speaker.
👏👏You r superb in putting facts with a touch of humour
There were no facts given just a FAIRYTALE story
she is awesome
I love science.
Truth should remain the same :)
It does. It's our understanding of it that changes as the result of our evolving knowledge
@@vaska1999 Perfectly said. Truth is, by definition, absolute. However, our knowledge and understanding will always be imperfect. Recently, most scientific endeavors bring us closer and closer to the Truth, but it is impossible that we could ever understand everything perfectly: we can only try to get as close as we can. THAT SAID, even "Truth" can change over time - for example, the rate at which the universe is expanding - called the "cosmological constant" has been found not to be constant, but accelerating: what was truth for one era, may not be true in a differnt era or context.
@@earlefrost5512 Phenomena (such as the rate of expansion of the universe) can and do change over time, but what you've just described is a truth that remains constant.
Great stuff .. thank you TED talks and thank you Melanie for making this a fun watch and learn .. still meandering offspring of the mating at issue are a joy to conjure when walking through the woods.. MediumFoot ..where are you ?
Very nice. A delightful lady. Made such good sense.
Intelligent consciousness of our souls drives evolution. Consciousness is the engine of evolution.
Awesome!
I dig smart chicks......and her boots
I am 42 years old, and she made me feel like a love struck teenager,
hard case crush of puppy love .
Beauty and brain, a very powerful combination. Great lecture Ms Chang.
Awesome 👍
great talk, clear informative.
Their is no reason to say 'civilian life' unless your a military veteran or active duty in the military. What does she mean by that anyways?
The building of cities the definition of a civilisation. Before we had only cultures.
@michael hoversten : yes, but when the usa became a military dictatorship everybody is working for war based economy, not only military members. so civilian life is almost ended and civilization is in crisis. yours might be a survival reaction to think 'military or no military' about everything, everywhere, and about everybody.
excellent speaker
Excellently done!!!
One big issue I have with evolution (besides the fact that evolution theories keep changing) is what she said. "The amount of data that we have is only a painfully small fraction of the total story of our evolutionary history...very very incomplete". Basically, what we know is far too small for us to form any valid conclusions. In the meantime, I'll stick to creation rather than assuming I understand the entire ocean because I've been in a bathtub.
While we aren't at the pinnacle of scientific understanding, there's more evidence for the theory of evolution than for the theory of gravity (relativity) at this point. If you still want to reject it that's fine, but which creation story would you go with? There's more than 1 creation story out there.
@@goodday512 I'll go with the Christian Bible's account. We have more evidence for the existence (and authenticity) of Jesus Christ than we do of Shakespeare, yet there are billions who don't believe in Him. The presence of some evidence does not equal validity for so many reasons (interpretation of such evidence for example). I don't "reject" evolution as a whole, I just can't accept something that even the authors have often changed their thoughts about, and acknowledge is severely incomplete. Especially since as a Christian, I believe my eternity is at stake here. I know this opens a can of worms, but I have my well thought out reasons.
@@topsydoddle1 There's evidence for Jesus Christ? Really? I'd love to know what that evidence is, especially as you think there's more evidence for him than Shakespeare!
@@goodday512 Without even doing much further research, there are thousands of manuscript and historic records, including those from at least three major worldwide religions that may not always like each other (Christianity, Islam and Judaism) and many historic references of Him that date back thousands of years. Compare that with the few dozens there are of Shakespeare even though Shakespeare lived in a far more recent and advanced time where records were much more available.
@@topsydoddle1 Please name me just one extra-biblical contemporary reference to a living breathing Jesus Christ. We don't even have an eye witness account of him.
But the thing is, even we could definitively demonstrate Jesus did exist, that still gets us nowhere near demonstrating that he had supernatural powers.
Would love to see her and Graham Hancock on the Joe Rogan show.
Just remember... Nebraska man was created using a single tooth..they constructed a complete skeleton based off of a single tooth.. later discovered to be a pigs tooth
And it was disproven because it didn't fit with what we know of evolution.
Nitpick, but we live dinosaurs. They fly all around here. Some people have them in cages in their houses. They are one of humans’ favorite foods.
Ken Ham needs to see this!
Didn't Ken Ham say at the end of his debate with Nye that there's literally nothing that would change his mind? He's not open to any arguments.
@@jensraab2902 When you begin with a pre-ordained, literally god-given (well, in his opinion...) conclusion, no facts will ever change your mind. Creationists start out with a belief, then try to make the data/observations/facts seem to support that belief - as well as trying with all their might to poke holes in other possible explanations. Convictions make convicts - hardcore belief systems harden your intellectual core so that the light of truth can't penetrate it.
@@jensraab2902 That's because scientific understanding is not his goal. Evolution is such a broadside at religion idiots like Ham have been forced to deal with it, however.
I have no problem listening to progress and discoveries regarding evolution. I'm also very comfortable with my faith in God and do not consider myself "brainwashed". As the evolution scientist works to refine the discovery so does a believer refine their belief as they live. Believe me there is more to God than the first chapter of Genesis. I'm waiting for the day a scientist can explain to me how for instance the pancreas developed, other than the go to "billions of years" of evolution. No my point is that something with specific purpose does not accidentally mutate into existence. How does the body know it needs to monitor blood sugar? How does the pancreas generate insulin which can reduce it? How did the electrical connections fall into place for the brain to trigger it? Billions of years just can't be the answer.
People are more receptive of science, when politics is left out of it.
Which is what she should have done.
@@williamseigler3408 She did. A Donald Rumsfeld joke is not indicative of political bias except for the most sensitive among us. Btw, none of the science is political at all...
Marvin Price
Well said!!!
...and when the speaker looks like that
The evolving STORY of human evolution is a good title the FAIRYTALE STORY OF EVOLUTION KEEPS CHANGING/EVOLVING EVERYTIME IT GETS PROVEN WRONG.
If a human starts as a baby , and needs hands in care for 4-6 years before it can survive on its own. So what came first ?
I see what you're trying to say but your point is nonsensical.
it's parents, whatever species they are, how tough is that?
We need such people to train AFRICANS in fact based sciences..African faces are always rare on such talks
How come Africans can't seek out people to train themselves in fact based sciences?
Excellent video 😊
Her remarks about vaccines and climate change hint that she knows the real nature of these theories. The fact is, she doesn't also she seems to be a very smart woman.
She’s on Netflix Human: The World Whitin
I argue in my book that their skull was superior to ours and I have a theory that we feared them for their intelligence and wiped them out for being in seclusion.
A spy classifies himself. Whatever you desire they will help you with it. They gave me astrophysicist classification that I didn't ask for it but I like it. I'm not a scientist but I'm an artist. They wanted an astrophysicist that was an artist. It's perfectly normal for the people to think like an artist with a simple mind. It's science that new and has a complex mind that need expensive training.
Artists do not have simple minds. They work hard to see what is unique about their interests. Art, it is sometimes said, is communicating emotion thrugh some medium.
@@walkergarya thanks for not insulting me. Artists work is emotions in motion song by Billy squire. Your correct.
Come for the accessible paleontology lecture, stay for the searing Donald Rumsfeld roast. ;) Seriously, very good talk. :)
Hmmm. Do we really know Donald Rumsfeld isn't more closely related to reptiles? 13:00
Code Python Reptiles are probably upset about that.
im her nephew
She is wasting her time studying these creatures that ate their own children hence extinction
Ask her about Denisovans.
@@myronsmith2114 Woah where did you come from lol
Zeke is a Greek name
@@davemccullagh4297 yes but the last name looks japanese
A really engaging presenter. My only critique is when she let her world view biases take over. Stick to the subject which you did a really good job presenting. When you stray into group identity commentary around wide ranging topics like global warming, creationism, big bang cosmology, vaccines, etc...and try to lump people into some kind of collective (using Donald Rumsfeld of all people as your universal representative sample), you start squandering all of the good will you had established.
Ed Smith she’s a scientist. She believes in the process. I appreciate her worldview.
I’m with Bart
True. It's always an attack on Christians. Seems like they're a bit always intimidated
Interesting. Also, raises a question about what percentage of human to human intimacy happened with consent, and same question about human with neanderthal. Seems modern humans are likely more gentle and considerate, emotionally evolved that is.
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The "human" ancestors are quite easy to locate. Research the time when King James, the planet's first Communist, re-wrote the Holy Bible, twice, and you will not only find the "origin" of the human, but also the word.
In other words, they make it up a they go along.
Marcellin Boule* is the author of the monograph she speaks about
So the fact that something has just as many digits as us doesn't make us more closely related compared to something else because DNA is more complicated then that but homology is a good indicator of us being related to everything?
@ lets go with that I guess
Wonderful vivacious speaker
We actually evolved from what all life began as, a CLUMP OF CHEMICALS....... but living viruses, We have more RETRO virus genes than protein genes in our genome. Those viruses helped to to quickly adapt to environmental changes, which microorganism can do but not MULTI-cellular organism. So the virus got us here.
Georgie Fong : Viruses don't have enough DNA/RNA to encode information for life - so require the chemical machinery of a cell to exist - grow and reproduce; they take over the cell machinery to make Virus. Viruses cannot therefore be a precursor organism as they exist without cellular life. Clearly there was a precursor to the cell, likely to be some membrane surfactant or rock based surface to act as a support/catalyst to chemical reactions. Unfortunately these "chemicals/life" cannot compete with modern life so we cannot find examples now, and they don't create fossil traces.
Tom 000 -- Try epigenetics. You'll be enlighted.
Hotep ... epigenetics is part of Science. Perhaps you could enlarge your vision a little bit. Try, for instance, the speech by Dr. Nessa Carey, at the Royal Institution. It doesn't seem fantasie to me (and she is not alone, of course). There is no place in sciences for fantasies . Otherwise it becomes science fiction.
we like to ask questions. we like to ponder and think about the world and life around us. if all of the questions were answered life would be a very boring place.
darrick steele At least we would have plenty of reading material.