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    EVO-DEVO
    Huxley
    B. Mac.
    Oh Carroll, Carroll
    Gould, Stephen Jay yeah
    D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter
    See
    One cell divide and decide on a thousand fates
    Did you ever figure how they know?
    B. Mac.
    We
    Are built of modules combined in a planned out way
    Each new piece must be told where to go
    Oh
    Now there's a science helping us to understand
    How our cells encode this architectural plan
    Signalling each other with genetic tools oh
    Oh yeah
    Wow
    Phenotype the interface for mouse and man
    Genotype the files and the subprograms
    What then are the switches, circuit boards and boot code?
    Evo-Devo
    Looking at the logic in the ways that we grow
    Every gene directed by a signal key code
    Proteins that can activate, enhance or veto
    Evo-Devo
    Signals are controlled by other genes that signal
    Calculating in a network labyrinthal
    Where the heart and liver and the hands and feet go
    Signal mapping tells each region what it ought to be yo
    With circuits so deeply built upon
    They're older than the Paleo
    The Paleozoic Era baby
    In a crucial pathway changes tend to get torpedoed
    Where they go calamity goes
    As this cyclopic sheep knows..
    See down they cascade like a domino
    Like you and I drosophila
    The path that makes us optical
    Was laid a long long time ago
    Back before we blew up the cambrian like a bomb bomb
    Now my eye protein can make you see out of your bom bom
    And Hedgehog and its relatives like Indian and Sonic
    Set up set up in a gradient on segments embryonic
    Split forebrains and asymmetric parts depend upon it
    Flipping on genetic switches and logic
    From devo to evo
    Adult and embryo
    Mostly don't evolve in the genes of the genome
    Safer the mutation aimed at regulation
    Keep the building blocks and swap their activation
    From devo to evo
    Parts have alter egos
    Homologs evolved from repeats in the schema
    Switch a couple bases in the proper places
    You'll be watching flies grow legs out of their faces oh yeah
    Evo-Devo
    Stick around for Modern Synthesis the sequel
    Only by combining can a new theory grow
    Evolution and development amigos
    Evo-Devo
    Signals trigger patterns of complexity so
    Switching up the switches of a signalling node
    Gives a modular and simple way to evolve
    Look at how our spinal segments generate a neat row
    Built on a molecular clock
    One cycle, one vertebra
    One vertebra one vertebra baby
    Speeding up its rate is snakes' developmental cheat code
    That and where a lizard's feet grow
    They turn off distal aminos
    Evo-Devo
    This is how we go from single cells to people
    Every generation and in life primeval
    Life in variations endless and beautiful
    Badaboom
    From devo to evo
    Larva to mosquito
    Patterns are resolved as the signals proceed yo
    Map out a gene with a glow tag
    Kill it with a morpholino
    Short oligo morpholino baby
    From devo to evo
    Voyage of the Beagle
    Body plans evolve when proteins steer the genome
    In this manner life's beauty grows
    Aesthetica in vivo
    Evo-Devo
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  • @trygveplaustrum4634
    @trygveplaustrum4634 6 років тому +3026

    At first, I was thinking, "There's no way he can make that song work." I was, clearly, wrong.

    • @isaacs8783
      @isaacs8783 6 років тому +73

      Trygve Plaustrum he's a fricking genius

    • @utkarshmishra7416
      @utkarshmishra7416 6 років тому +52

      Yep. He deserves 1b views

    • @jackoplumkin6412
      @jackoplumkin6412 6 років тому +5

      Only three reply's? Wtf

    • @StarsBravo
      @StarsBravo 6 років тому +7

      I already love the song so anything that sounds like it I can enjoy, but this takes it to another league

    • @aadranakhblutaar7464
      @aadranakhblutaar7464 3 роки тому +1

      Why did i read this in Captain Holt‘s Voice 😂

  • @Konic_and_Snuckles
    @Konic_and_Snuckles 4 роки тому +6142

    This is literally an entire semester of a 400-level Evolutionary Developmental Biology course, summed up in a 5 minute song. Fucking legendary.

    • @j.s.ospina9861
      @j.s.ospina9861 3 роки тому +323

      I, now, shall torture myself by researching every meaning of every phrase of this song. In the next 24 hours. Oh man.

    • @lucasqwert1
      @lucasqwert1 3 роки тому +175

      @@j.s.ospina9861 You'll learn so much researching these subjects that are presented in this video :)

    • @emmas-in-dillemas5649
      @emmas-in-dillemas5649 3 роки тому +21

      @@j.s.ospina9861 already on that 😂😂😉

    • @genfox1g913
      @genfox1g913 3 роки тому +48

      @@j.s.ospina9861 That's a good thing to do but you should never go above what your learning as it will be useless for you at the moment and you will thought about it or deselect the stuff that you should be learning (stuff that is less complex but necessary for your grades) But depends what year your in and what level in science most likely Lv3 BTEC+.

    • @lorenzosimini6667
      @lorenzosimini6667 3 роки тому +3

      Yeahhh ahahah

  • @gedde5703
    @gedde5703 3 роки тому +3261

    Biology aside, someone has to mention how absolutely INSANE this acapella is musically. He is not using any external instruments apart from his damn mouth. Absolutely incredible.

    • @taka4059
      @taka4059 3 роки тому +104

      I don't think a better science song will ever be produced. This is the peak.

    • @COMALiteJ
      @COMALiteJ 3 роки тому +95

      @@taka4059 Says someone who hasn’t seen the _rest_ of his channel. This isn’t even his best work.

    • @memelord7821
      @memelord7821 2 роки тому +7

      I didn't even notice until you pointed it out

    • @Ultrasemen
      @Ultrasemen 2 роки тому +15

      are you sure that ALL sounds are produced by mouth? because some background sounds really don't sound like that

    • @alexting827
      @alexting827 2 роки тому +30

      @@Ultrasemen they are, just modified by program but all came from his mouth

  • @tucksiver8763
    @tucksiver8763 3 роки тому +994

    I STILL get shivvers from how good this is. 3 years later.

    • @Michylawhty
      @Michylawhty 3 роки тому +26

      I'm still so impressed that the words rhyme, are similar or even the same as the words from the original song yet still put into a parody that makes sense. it's truly a masterpiece

    • @herweirdoo0904
      @herweirdoo0904 2 роки тому +5

      It is actually really good isn't it , this shit need to go down in history

    • @professorx3060
      @professorx3060 Рік тому +4

      Same, I can't control it. The song is so good. And I love biology.

    • @SaiTheForgotten
      @SaiTheForgotten 8 місяців тому

      Same

    • @alexzw4433
      @alexzw4433 2 місяці тому

      Try 6 years

  • @Mike20041701
    @Mike20041701 5 років тому +12856

    Finally! Someone translated despacito to English. I'm pretty sure the translation is very accurate.

    • @stari3
      @stari3 4 роки тому +108

      Miguel Martínez lol

    • @mdmodassirulislam
      @mdmodassirulislam 4 роки тому +119

      Oh hell no😂

    • @nicolaswolf3873
      @nicolaswolf3873 4 роки тому +440

      Ahh yes, I sing this in public and everyone looks at them in shook. I think they are shocked by my knowledge about biology, BIG BRAAAIINNN!

    • @LOrco_
      @LOrco_ 4 роки тому +96

      @@nicolaswolf3873 yeah, this Is big brain time.

    • @laikaperraespacial6025
      @laikaperraespacial6025 4 роки тому +96

      Yeah the song is really deep and educational but the english speaker has been losing all it XD

  • @bonky2527
    @bonky2527 4 роки тому +726

    Friends : What type of music do you like to hear ?
    Me : It's complicated

    • @anandsuralkar2947
      @anandsuralkar2947 3 роки тому

      @Aadishree Chaurasiya ohh i am 22year guy and i could hardly understand props to u.

    • @k.v.7115
      @k.v.7115 3 роки тому +4

      LITERALLY

    • @weremuppet7625
      @weremuppet7625 2 роки тому +5

      I find it simple to answer, I usually just say mostly educational parodies and Weird Al Yankovich, which isn't always educational though :)

    • @incvnsit
      @incvnsit 2 роки тому +1

      See once cell divide and divid-

    • @Nothing-_-0024.
      @Nothing-_-0024. 2 місяці тому +1

      well guess what... i sent this and all his other songs to almost everyone I know :)) but sadly a lot of them don't care which makes me sad :(

  • @DoctorAkikoFukuwara
    @DoctorAkikoFukuwara 2 роки тому +1144

    This is a masterpiece and must be protected for future generations

    • @Rinnaoj
      @Rinnaoj Рік тому +11

      250+ likes, and no ones noticing in the comments that a DOCTOR said that. I'm happy to agree with you

    • @Hekateras
      @Hekateras Рік тому +4

      Agreed. We must put this on the next Golden Disc.

    • @beejayxl9018
      @beejayxl9018 5 місяців тому

      Someone call Capitol Records

    • @daisy9537
      @daisy9537 4 місяці тому

      Future generations won't even understand what he's talking about 😂

  • @samanthaschulte9496
    @samanthaschulte9496 2 роки тому +511

    This is so incredible. The fact that he can put all these talents into one. The singing, the acappella, the scientific knowledge, the brilliantly clever song writing. Literally amazing

    • @yash1152
      @yash1152 Рік тому +12

      u forgot video production

    • @makelgrax4580
      @makelgrax4580 4 місяці тому

      Yeah, the animation is way too good!

  • @pratikbrahma8709
    @pratikbrahma8709 4 роки тому +876

    When I get demotivated studying biology, I comeback to this and get hyped to study bio again.

  • @GMPranav
    @GMPranav 4 роки тому +2692

    Hey Tim, are you aware that a guy called Luis Fonsi made a parody of this song called "Despacito"?

    • @mahboobunissakhan9838
      @mahboobunissakhan9838 4 роки тому +119

      Yup, that too in Spanish

    • @shosty575
      @shosty575 4 роки тому +62

      Yeah, weird right?

    • @ismatara1260
      @ismatara1260 4 роки тому +53

      surprised there are not any wooshes! maybe people ae FINNALY get smarter

    • @avinavverma2315
      @avinavverma2315 4 роки тому +22

      aRe YoU sTuPid oR sOmeThiNg? thIs iS tHe paRoDy oF dEsPaciTo? u R sUcH a fOoL. lOl XD

    • @lone_berserker
      @lone_berserker 4 роки тому +18

      No Despacito 2 came first. Then this came and later that Despacito.

  • @lam4452
    @lam4452 Рік тому +290

    I watched this video four years ago, and since I was interested I bought and read one of the books he talks about in the end (Endless forms most beautiful, I think, I read it in Italian so the title was different but still).
    Anyhow that is how I got into evo-devo. Four years later and I am currently enrolled in a master's degree in Evolutionary Biology after completing my Bachelor's. Finally about to get those detailed classes :)
    Keep doing this kind of work, it can really capture the attention of young scientists!

    • @acatnamedm4529
      @acatnamedm4529 Рік тому +9

      That's amazing. Good luck with your studies.

    • @Heartabolical555
      @Heartabolical555 11 місяців тому +3

      Good luck. I am also a biology master but done. immunology though and his evodevo song deeply impressed me. Evo was alway one of my guilty other pleasures in bio. ❤😊

  • @DINOSAURIA
    @DINOSAURIA Рік тому +163

    Is it just me, or does anyone else get all teary-eyed towards the end when he sings "in this manner life's beauty grows..." Man, I love evolutionary biology

    • @theaspiringpianist7268
      @theaspiringpianist7268 11 місяців тому +7

      Right there with you, man

    • @anomaliecosmos
      @anomaliecosmos 8 місяців тому +7

      "Aesthetica in Vivo" is just the title of a textbook but now makes me weepy purely by association with that line, yes

    • @hannajung7512
      @hannajung7512 3 місяці тому +1

      for me it's "Life in variations endless and beautiful", but the sentiment is the same

    • @lefrog4893
      @lefrog4893 3 місяці тому +1

      @@hannajung7512for some reasons when he says “voyage of the beagle” that just like hits so hard for me, and the “BADABOOM!”

  • @sebastianelytron8450
    @sebastianelytron8450 6 років тому +4174

    This deserves as many views as the actual song.

    • @MrinmoyAkash
      @MrinmoyAkash 6 років тому +124

      And more.

    • @liamgibbs9914
      @liamgibbs9914 6 років тому +108

      Many, many, many more.

    • @Elizabeth68337
      @Elizabeth68337 6 років тому +70

      Sebastian Elytron exactly this song turns a good beat with fairly bad lyrics and turned it into an amazing song teaching people the importance and power of evo devo

    • @jeaneahpaik
      @jeaneahpaik 6 років тому +23

      This thing is really ridiculously fantastic and I liked it so so much

    • @SavageDawgJoshua
      @SavageDawgJoshua 6 років тому +23

      You spelled "more" wrong.

  • @rightpurpose2076
    @rightpurpose2076 4 роки тому +2464

    When your Mother wants u to be a Musician but ur Father want u to be a scientist...

    • @sojourner_303
      @sojourner_303 4 роки тому +101

      RightPurpose And you end up being a UA-camr.

    • @crowridley8245
      @crowridley8245 4 роки тому +49

      When ur asian mother makes you pick up an instrument and become doctor

    • @pointed.sphere
      @pointed.sphere 4 роки тому +4

      @@crowridley8245 This doesn't use instruments

    • @narkreean6490
      @narkreean6490 3 роки тому +10

      @@pointed.sphere anything is an instrument to complete anything XD

    • @vincentngo9186
      @vincentngo9186 3 роки тому +12

      @@pointed.sphere the voice is an instrument, check mate

  • @sidney7291
    @sidney7291 3 роки тому +304

    When u find out u are 1% Latina but
    *99% Laboratory technician*

  • @Pershath08
    @Pershath08 3 роки тому +258

    "Back before we blew up the Cambrian like a bomb, bomb"
    Shout-out to the Precambrian explosion!

  • @emasuvajacphoto
    @emasuvajacphoto 5 років тому +1616

    This is genius. As a molecular biology grad (whose favourite class was evo devo, cause I'm a nerd like that)...this hit the exact right chords hahaha

    • @clockworkoconnor2748
      @clockworkoconnor2748 4 роки тому +68

      More like the exact right NOTOchords! *badum tsh*

    • @kevinaugustsson2202
      @kevinaugustsson2202 4 роки тому +8

      Not sure evo-devo is any nerdier than the other subjects lol

    • @cerberaodollam
      @cerberaodollam 4 роки тому +7

      Oof i ruined the 556 likes by adding one. (5.56 mm anyone?)

    • @prabuddhapal
      @prabuddhapal 3 роки тому +3

      I like this song🤘🤘🤘

    • @kylerutherford3560
      @kylerutherford3560 3 роки тому +4

      @@clockworkoconnor2748 Uh hmm. Touche'.

  • @boglenight1551
    @boglenight1551 4 роки тому +324

    The fact that I can listen to this over countless times and each time find a deeper reference, meaning or beauty to it is reminiscent of the field of biology itself.

    • @COMALiteJ
      @COMALiteJ 3 роки тому +14

      Your understanding of the lyrics is evolving and developing over time.

  • @Raivon
    @Raivon 2 роки тому +69

    "What genre of music do you like?"
    *"Science."*

  • @arctikvg3693
    @arctikvg3693 3 роки тому +153

    I really love the line at 2:24 where it goes „switch a couple bases in the proper places you‘ll be watching flies grow feet out of their faces“ 😹

    • @bemusedalligator
      @bemusedalligator 3 роки тому +18

      I sometimes feel sorry for the flies that we did these experiments on. Replacing their antennas with feet, making them grow eyeballs on their posterior...

    • @thomasneal9291
      @thomasneal9291 2 роки тому +21

      @@bemusedalligator If you were born with legs on your face. and everybody you ever saw also had legs on their face... would you feel sorry for yourself?

    • @telebeam6144
      @telebeam6144 9 місяців тому +1

      ​@@thomasneal9291maybe. I question a lot of things about the hateful corpus I currently inhabit, but it looks pretty much like everybody else's ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

  • @MCC900
    @MCC900 6 років тому +486

    So you made a well-constructed parody song about biology, with matching lyrics and metrics that also serves as an accurate educational summary of genetics.That requires... a strange combination of skills.

  • @endermothii
    @endermothii 6 років тому +2656

    Anyone prefer this to the original Despacito? :)

    • @noyz-anything
      @noyz-anything 5 років тому +54

      sqrt(-1)

    • @drizzlingrose
      @drizzlingrose 5 років тому +47

      dont think anyone prefs the og one over this, this is so amazing, and sciency! :D

    • @rayray2528
      @rayray2528 5 років тому +35

      Yeah, cause I can understand this.....lol

    • @helenetrstrup4817
      @helenetrstrup4817 5 років тому +26

      Considering that I usually listen to Despacito for the melody, this is definitely more fun xD

    • @alizehfaisal6788
      @alizehfaisal6788 5 років тому +27

      Oh nah how could you prefer the original over this one? This probably took way more effort and is way more better

  • @michwrites
    @michwrites 3 роки тому +127

    I am not a biology major, so I ended up googling each term in order to understand it. This song is fascinating.

    • @katza831
      @katza831 10 місяців тому +1

      This is taught in high-school 3 dif times

    • @techheck3358
      @techheck3358 8 місяців тому +13

      @@katza831a basic overview is taught. Evo devo is a whole university level course

  • @atharvanmangalapalli459
    @atharvanmangalapalli459 2 роки тому +177

    This song is Fuckin Legendary! It's been 4 years and I still can't get it to stop playing in my mind. At totally random times, I sometimes shout 'Signal signal!' or hum random parts of the song while reading. This song is like the Genetic code itself, tightly packed with the entire summary of Evolutionary and developmental biology in a few minutes. I was starting out with Embryology when this song came out and this made me understand the genetic regulation part so well. Still waiting for some more amazing songs like this one. This is still my favorite though. It was my ringtone for a year.

  • @GMPStudios
    @GMPStudios 5 років тому +207

    The only problem I had with Despacito was it's lyrics, thanks for fixing it.

  • @ivmusic5404
    @ivmusic5404 5 років тому +3378

    Original version- Sounds good but means shit.
    Biological version- Sounds good and is a meaningful song.

    • @muizzy
      @muizzy 4 роки тому +33

      Since when is it meaningless to make people feel good? :)

    • @rita1576
      @rita1576 4 роки тому +12

      Watch the english version and you will know.

    • @rita1576
      @rita1576 4 роки тому

      Its by itsdvd

    • @GMPranav
      @GMPranav 4 роки тому +54

      Actually Despacito is a simple Spanish romantic song that doesn't mean much. It's the video that is shit.

    • @Oszy333
      @Oszy333 4 роки тому +49

      Well it's not as much romantic as it is sensual. Which is not a bad thing, as far as those go, it is a good one. People just hate it because it was overplayed by far.

  • @uckuzu
    @uckuzu Рік тому +27

    "Aesthetica in vivo" gives me chills every single time. Amazing work.

  • @Envy_May
    @Envy_May 6 місяців тому +4

    1:56 i still can't get over the fact that Sonic Hedgehog is the actual name of a real protein and the gene(s) that make(s) it

  • @kamadotanjirou9093
    @kamadotanjirou9093 4 роки тому +1010

    Normal person* cant understand despacito*
    Science geek*forcefully puts science into it and everyone loves it*
    (Including me)

    • @slolilols
      @slolilols 4 роки тому +3

      *_Hello fellow weeb_*

    • @kamadotanjirou9093
      @kamadotanjirou9093 4 роки тому +2

      @@slolilols hello there fella
      Finally someone who matches my intallet....

    • @slolilols
      @slolilols 4 роки тому +2

      @@kamadotanjirou9093 Indian otakus are hard to find anyways lol

    • @kamadotanjirou9093
      @kamadotanjirou9093 4 роки тому +2

      @@slolilols yeah ppl here r weird they r living without waifus
      I did not knew it was physically possible
      Well most of them call anime cartoon, so they r not living anyways

    • @slolilols
      @slolilols 4 роки тому

      @@kamadotanjirou9093 *_exactly, they don't understand the greatness_*

  • @mendelsonroy279
    @mendelsonroy279 6 років тому +88

    It's nice in some way because the original Despacito is about how he wants to do that process of making a new human with her, and the emotions involved, while this is about the actual biological process that occurs when this happens :P

    • @yvonnethompson844
      @yvonnethompson844 6 років тому +1

      i know right? "wait!! come back! i'll get you hooked on my kisses and make it so you never want to leave!! "

    • @veronicabrotons3391
      @veronicabrotons3391 6 років тому

      Hahahahaha love it!!! Good job, keep posting videos like this.

  • @ashurean
    @ashurean 10 місяців тому +9

    How far have these kinds of videos come. In high school they had some videos like these for classes but they made me cringe out of my skin to the point I couldn't even watch them. Meanwhile, I'm in my mid-20's and watching this on repeat because the animations and lyrics are addictive.

  • @tallguyg
    @tallguyg Рік тому +28

    I come back and watch The Molecular Shape of You and this video back to back every year or so. They flow together so well. Two of my absolute favorite videos on UA-cam of all time.

  • @Morghena
    @Morghena 4 роки тому +492

    I need "Switch a couple bases in the proper places, you'll be watching flies grow legs out of their faces" on a T-shirt. ASAP

  • @n.sambedprakashpati3271
    @n.sambedprakashpati3271 4 роки тому +305

    when u realise the beaats were coming out of his mouth..

    • @ironbard4901
      @ironbard4901 3 роки тому +9

      Holy fucking shit, you're right O__O

    • @truthseeker7815
      @truthseeker7815 3 роки тому +30

      Yeah, that's the meaning of acapella :v

    • @addas1392
      @addas1392 3 роки тому +6

      Oh lord... Yes. I noticed only after reading your comments. True Artist.!!!

    • @witherschat
      @witherschat 3 роки тому +6

      That's the whole purpose of the channel, actually... This shouldn't exist in a normal world, but I'm glad it does.

  • @loklan1
    @loklan1 3 місяці тому +3

    This was my first exposure to Acapella Science (I was on a mission to find as many covers of Despacito as I could). What an absolutely brilliant piece of work. I spent days after going down internet rabbit holes trying to learn as much about evolutionary development as I could.

  •  10 місяців тому +9

    These videos make me cry because of the beauty of the universe

    • @Smytjf11
      @Smytjf11 10 місяців тому

      This song was playing when we lost our cat, Prim. It sounds trite, but I loved that cat. Let's defeat Entropy. For Prim.

  • @aliciagonzalezmiguez8057
    @aliciagonzalezmiguez8057 6 років тому +189

    I study biology and I play this song 8 times a day in my exam's period ("take exams" too). Actually I was listening to it today before my develop biology exam to motivate myself and guess what??? Drosophila's develop was question 3😂

  • @admaxadvertising953
    @admaxadvertising953 6 років тому +1433

    This should get more views than despacito.😂

    • @jawad7284
      @jawad7284 6 років тому +9

      physicist j I hear you bro!

    • @baarish216
      @baarish216 6 років тому +6

      Yes !

    • @curiosusartifex6559
      @curiosusartifex6559 6 років тому +25

      but it wont.. this says enough about homo sapiens..

    • @utkarshmishra7416
      @utkarshmishra7416 6 років тому +8

      I understand this better than that too

    • @botigamer9011
      @botigamer9011 6 років тому +2

      physicist j I doubt it. 3.8B is a bit of a stretch to say the least

  • @imagomonkei
    @imagomonkei 3 роки тому +88

    Still listening, added 100 more plays. My favorite line starts at 3:13. “Molecules-to-man evolution” (and similar alliterations) is a favorite phrase used by Creationists to describe the apparent foolishness of thinking that humans could've evolved from single-celled organisms. I get chills every time I listen to you sing that part because of the joyful freedom of escaping those shackles. I have so much catching up to do, but people like you inspire me to seek out more knowledge everyday.

    • @markusheimerl8735
      @markusheimerl8735 2 роки тому +9

      I love your comments. I see the beauty and emotions you describe and share them with you. All my life I have never found deeper meaning, greater truth or more joy than in scientific discovery.

    • @davidpape1160
      @davidpape1160 2 роки тому +7

      If you haven't read Endless Forms Most Beautiful yet... it's one of my favourite books of all time.

    • @imagomonkei
      @imagomonkei 2 роки тому +5

      @@davidpape1160 I have read half of it so far, but it's a little over my head. I'm trying. 😅

    • @aidansmith1446
      @aidansmith1446 10 місяців тому +2

      I grew up believing in a literal creationist mindset, yet God showed me the beauty in His creation and the structure of it. Science, as far as I have seen, is merely showcasing how God made everything. The structure, the design. It's all clearly divinely inspired and ordered.

    • @kelvintrollol
      @kelvintrollol 8 місяців тому

      There's a book out there called "I don't have enough faith to be an atheist"

  • @AriPaul
    @AriPaul 3 місяці тому +2

    I watch this at least once every 6 months and am blown away every time.

  • @adamwilkinson4264
    @adamwilkinson4264 6 років тому +194

    You really should make a video where you explain all the science behind every line. Even if it was an hour long I know that I and many other people would watch the whole thing. If you don't then someone needs to because it feels like a waste for all this amazing science to go over the heads of so many people

    • @swairaarshad665
      @swairaarshad665 6 років тому +3

      agreed

    • @laartje24
      @laartje24 6 років тому +41

      Adam Wilkinson I took classes in this field, believe me 1 hour would not cover it. Maybe 8 hours.

    • @REIwAlexY
      @REIwAlexY 6 років тому +24

      The vast amount of science that these videos cover is like entire semesters worth of info. For example, I took a class called biological development and it didn't cover all the details in this song (most but not all) and it was an advanced level elective mainly for graduate/senior students.... Then, consider that to get to that class, I took many other prereqs to build up my baseline knowledge.

    • @refried
      @refried 6 років тому +9

      Adam Wilkinson I half agree but also folks can just google for the science behind every line. eg the TED talk on the cyclops sheep

    • @fetch300
      @fetch300 6 років тому +3

      Adam Wilkinson isn't that what a college application is for?

  • @katydid-9996
    @katydid-9996 5 років тому +3277

    Some fool: Evolution is a myth!
    Me, an intellectual: This is so sad. Alexa, play Evo-devo.

    • @mikepublic111
      @mikepublic111 5 років тому +98

      At 30 seconds: "We Are built of modules combined in a planned out way. Each new piece must be told where to go."
      That fool you mention is going to claim that's evidence for Intelligent Design.

    • @johannbauer2863
      @johannbauer2863 5 років тому +23

      Mike Public while not listening to the rst of the song...

    • @TerceroIV
      @TerceroIV 5 років тому +10

      Evolution is a joke.
      Change my mind.

    • @doubleirishdutchsandwich4740
      @doubleirishdutchsandwich4740 5 років тому +21

      Evolutionary Programming is a class of Artificial Intelligence algorithms based on evolutionary principles, so in a way, we were intelligently designed.

    • @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264
      @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264 5 років тому +10

      Alejandro Ibarra evolution is a great theory
      Changed my mind

  • @michaelfischer6285
    @michaelfischer6285 2 роки тому +49

    I maintain, and will forever, that this video is perfect. Your performance is flawless, the song is incredible, and it's literally a college level bio lesson in lyric form. Incredible! Please keep doing what you've been doing

  • @anubhavarya2490
    @anubhavarya2490 3 роки тому +28

    This Made Me Fall In Love With Biology And Inspired Me To Become A Doctor

    • @muhammadbinyaqub16
      @muhammadbinyaqub16 3 роки тому +2

      This was published 3 yrs ago.
      You are a doctor now
      Plz tell me you did everything in 3 yrs

    • @muhammadbinyaqub16
      @muhammadbinyaqub16 3 роки тому

      Or did you see this in the middle of your education?

    • @anubhavarya2490
      @anubhavarya2490 3 роки тому +7

      @@muhammadbinyaqub16 LOL I Am A Pre Medical Student I Meant This Video Inspired Me To Take Biology As A Further Subject Of Study

    • @pratik01.
      @pratik01. 3 роки тому

      Hi pain

    • @anubhavarya2490
      @anubhavarya2490 3 роки тому

      @@pratik01. :)

  • @SSAFT
    @SSAFT 6 років тому +1732

    That was awesome! Thanks for the shoutout to this fascinating field of evolutionary biology!

    • @marin4750
      @marin4750 6 років тому +2

      Strange Stuff and Funky Things Interesting how your comment has 1000 likes yet am first comment.

    • @vortex1708
      @vortex1708 6 років тому

      Duude! Ikr

    • @GenerationLex
      @GenerationLex 6 років тому +2

      Just a thought, I mean this is just going way out there, probably not relevant, but the dude has 12k followers, maybe a few of his followers enjoyed his comment enough to like it? (Also, likes on youtube are like fools gold, they're shiny but not really worth anything)

    • @mattpooyanfar1148
      @mattpooyanfar1148 6 років тому

      Strange Stuff and Funky Things hahahaha

    • @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264
      @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264 5 років тому

      Evolution is a stupid theory with no evidence

  • @nikoincroatia
    @nikoincroatia 6 років тому +125

    This genuinely sounds better than the original, even disregarding the cool science stuff.

  • @icebearmusic6577
    @icebearmusic6577 2 роки тому +35

    I was studying evolution and suddenly I remember this masterpiece exists.

  • @aurorasheadspace
    @aurorasheadspace 3 місяці тому +2

    I listened to this a few years ago for the first time, being an innocent high schooler. After studying genetic biology from 1 year , this is a masterpiece. This song is filled with creativity and knowledge and it is entertaining. I am definitely showing this to my teachers.

  • @A8nton
    @A8nton 6 років тому +635

    The first Despacito version that you can actually listen to!

    • @vortimerofkent128
      @vortimerofkent128 6 років тому

      "I wear Speedos" is not bad for the purpose of parody.

    • @michaelloughnane
      @michaelloughnane 6 років тому +3

      It's pretty terrible, just looking at the quality of writing - the creator rhymed "speedo" with "speedo" way too many times.

    • @markgarr7836
      @markgarr7836 6 років тому +1

      Check out Malinda Kathleen Reese

    • @thevarxo9459
      @thevarxo9459 6 років тому +5

      Ivysaurman your'e focusing on one word? Lol

    • @markgarr7836
      @markgarr7836 6 років тому +3

      TheVarxo
      The best part is the word "speedo" isn't even in the video...

  • @shadysid5570
    @shadysid5570 5 років тому +578

    I'm a biology student........and OMFG each and every word is so damn true👌👌👌👌👌👌better than spanish despacito😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣

    • @LoreCatan
      @LoreCatan 5 років тому +14

      I bet it's gotta feel so rewarding to understand everything from the first listen, can't even imagine.

    • @pineforest1442
      @pineforest1442 5 років тому +5

      Siddharth Jain I honestly only knew a gene and dna could create living things, but now I know how they manage to pull off organizing many cells into massive creatures in such order.

    • @Supreethre
      @Supreethre 4 роки тому

      So relatable

    • @Surfer7901
      @Surfer7901 4 роки тому +2

      I was a professional degree qualified British biologist (now in an engineering career). It's a false message. Data and code never, ever appear from chance events. Don't believe this. The message SHOULD Be: Design does not come from chance events, which is what evolution proposes.

    • @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264
      @chucklesdarwinwaswrongevol9264 4 роки тому

      Surfer7901 you’re absolutely right

  • @BryanCarthell
    @BryanCarthell Рік тому +7

    An instrumental version of "Despacito" is playing in the Starbucks and all I can think about are the lyrics to this song.

  • @workout9632
    @workout9632 3 роки тому +155

    Seeing biological ideas combine so flawlessly in this video is so fascinating, I don't know how to explain the feeling this video gave but the complexity and the connections are displayed in such a magnificent way, far better than my textbook, that I feel reinvigorated to learn biology once again with ferver

  • @macdege6754
    @macdege6754 6 років тому +733

    WHY IS THIS SO DAMN GOOD?!

    • @noorfatyma8700
      @noorfatyma8700 6 років тому +1

      I don’t know

    • @madi__k1640
      @madi__k1640 6 років тому +8

      Mac Dege because science

    • @oshraattia4297
      @oshraattia4297 6 років тому +6

      because science!!!!!!

    • @danielt.4330
      @danielt.4330 5 років тому +16

      Seriously, this video made me laugh while also making me almost cry in happiness. I feel like this is the purpose of the internet. Watching this video made me order a book on Evo-Devo.

    • @beckyfearereck
      @beckyfearereck 5 років тому +1

      Mac Dege
      I D O N T K N O W B U T I T IS AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA-

  • @woottada8168
    @woottada8168 6 років тому +36

    If radios play this guy’s songs, kids these days would be a lot smarter.

  • @maryam8029
    @maryam8029 2 роки тому +32

    Holy... every line gave me severe chills. This was the coolest song I ever listened to o-o

  • @TGaODe
    @TGaODe 3 роки тому +36

    This video introduced me to Evolutionary Developmental Biology, and the field has really changed how I see life and really help set my life forward in a direction I'm happy with. So, thank you A Capella Science.

  • @angelahedderick2644
    @angelahedderick2644 6 років тому +52

    Damn, boy. As every song comes out I think - "There's no way he can ever top THAT one" . . . and then you do. Utterly amazing.

  • @Payitamon
    @Payitamon 6 років тому +80

    People already look at me weirdly when I sing "ligo feels the space is rippling through...", I'd love to see their faces the next time I hear despacito and I start singing evo-devo hahah

    • @Merr134
      @Merr134 6 років тому +24

      My 2-year-old (Tim's niece) sings Aladdin songs about "shining, shimmering planets." I am ok with this.

    • @Payitamon
      @Payitamon 6 років тому +5

      Mary-Jane Blais hahaha that's cute :) make way for Pegasi!

    • @acapellascience
      @acapellascience  6 років тому +21

      +Mary-Jane Blais She's gonna be weird.. but good weird 😃

    • @Payitamon
      @Payitamon 6 років тому +4

      acapellascience hey Tim. I spent 2 years at the university of Cambridge doing research on solar fuels (Reisner lab). Let me know if you ever want to do a song about it! :) I can also sing :P

    • @nobodyspecial6844
      @nobodyspecial6844 6 років тому +4

      I feel you... I sing 'when orbitals take the shape they do...' to myself so often I've forgotten the words to the original song.

  • @gilmouraes
    @gilmouraes 2 роки тому +11

    I come back to this song every once in a while to reset my love for genetics

  • @thebeechguy691
    @thebeechguy691 3 роки тому +19

    My professor actually showed us this video in his Evo-Devo lecture

  • @planetfall5056
    @planetfall5056 4 роки тому +90

    I love how the animations at the end of Molecular shape of you and the beginning of this song line up seamlessly

  • @varundubey2000
    @varundubey2000 6 років тому +120

    man im not a bio person but this shit is lit

  • @thatoneweeb.
    @thatoneweeb. 5 місяців тому +5

    6 years later, still a banger.

  • @kreidu3215
    @kreidu3215 Рік тому +4

    How many times have you watched this?
    Me: *Yes*

  • @Zenanov
    @Zenanov 6 років тому +170

    Only legends noticed that this started from where molecular shape of you ended ;D

    • @larrywitcher8283
      @larrywitcher8283 6 років тому +6

      nice observation

    • @thiagocastrodias2
      @thiagocastrodias2 6 років тому +9

      After I read your comment I've noticed. I think I'm a legend now. Thank You!

    • @Zenanov
      @Zenanov 6 років тому +3

      Woo 95 likes thank you so much guys!

    • @powderphysics
      @powderphysics 6 років тому +1

      not to brag but I spotted it straight away lol

    • @Draxper
      @Draxper 6 років тому

      Zenanov Hi, i made an amazing science rap battle. you wud love to hear. Plz check it on my channel. Do give your valuable feedback.

  • @AntiParallali
    @AntiParallali 6 років тому +454

    As a biologist I'm drinking a Stella, working on some bioinformatics stuff, with this in the background. It's midnight. Oh boy...

    • @brettchapman3175
      @brettchapman3175 6 років тому +15

      I'm a post-doctoral researcher working in bioinformatics and systems biology. I love this! I can't stop listening to it!! It's like everything I'm passionate about turned into music! 😍

    • @Inogat
      @Inogat 6 років тому +4

      You're so cool ! Like some kickass marvel character !

    • @AntiParallali
      @AntiParallali 6 років тому +7

      Brett Chapman this one and the Ed Sheeran parody by him are so good!!

    • @AntiParallali
      @AntiParallali 6 років тому +2

      Brett Chapman haha thanks! :)

    • @yamtown723
      @yamtown723 6 років тому +2

      Thanks for your work, y'all~

  • @phillipmorgankinney881
    @phillipmorgankinney881 3 роки тому +22

    F**KING AMAZING
    Your ability to turn scientific understanding into something anyone can enjoy is a gift to the world

  • @imm9315
    @imm9315 3 роки тому +15

    2:07 epic...

  • @RiskoPlexus
    @RiskoPlexus 6 років тому +193

    WAY BETTER than Despacito, I don't care what my friends say 👍

  • @acapellascience
    @acapellascience  6 років тому +928

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    • @sujitprasad676
      @sujitprasad676 6 років тому +29

      acapellascience As always, way better than other parody out there. But it really sucks to see such low amount of subscribers in your channel!

    • @CactusPuppy
      @CactusPuppy 6 років тому +21

      It's because not everyone's a huge nerd about science, I guess.

    • @annar794
      @annar794 6 років тому +2

      acapellascience Oh excellent ! 😍

    • @elixserhere
      @elixserhere 6 років тому +11

      and luis fonsi..

    • @tedlikeshatsbecausetheyare6230
      @tedlikeshatsbecausetheyare6230 6 років тому +7

      Dude, your my favourite channel, you take the songs I hate (despacito, shape of you, Mr sandman, pumped up kicks) and make them awesome!

  • @Sam-sk7lc
    @Sam-sk7lc 2 роки тому +23

    I understand none of this and somehow still enjoy it more than the original
    The way he can sing these fat words so fast is mind-blowing. Respect

  • @soham_and
    @soham_and 3 місяці тому +1

    Your covers of these popular songs have become my all time favorite songs! They never get boring like normal songs do. I've been singing along with you using the description once everyday and I feel happy everytime. Singing science based lyrics also makes me feel better about studies that they don't have to be hard and tough always. Thank you so much for these masterpieces! When I'll get into college, I'll certainly ask them to invite you on the first event/fest right away!

  • @creepycries562
    @creepycries562 5 років тому +1249

    BIOLOGY STUDENTS?

    • @drvir
      @drvir 5 років тому +20

      Here

    • @michaelmaloney2925
      @michaelmaloney2925 5 років тому +15

      CREEPY CRIES Here

    • @okada1103
      @okada1103 5 років тому +18

      Do biomedical sciences count?

    • @nicoles7652
      @nicoles7652 5 років тому +5

      @@okada1103 Yes! Same here

    • @imketys
      @imketys 5 років тому +3

      hi, here as well

  • @Eliza.--.
    @Eliza.--. 6 років тому +28

    I have actually never heard the original version of this song (since I avoid pop music as a rule and have not listened to it on the radio as a matter of principle for most of three years) and, judging from the translation I looked up, I'm glad I haven't. That said, this is brilliant! My passion is physics, but I often feel that I don't spend enough time thinking about the other sciences. This excursion into the world of biology is refreshing and fascinating. Thank you so much Tim Blais for the wonderful work you do.
    (On a different note, the spelling of "sequel" at 2:33 is bugging me more than it probably should.)

    • @acapellascience
      @acapellascience  6 років тому +6

      +Eliza Dagnabbit there's always the one typo 😐 But thanks! Happy to bring bio to a fellow physicist--and bangin' pop tunes to a new audience!
      If you want more conceptually digestible biology, I highly recommend Inès Dawson's Draw Curiosity channel.

    • @ckehung2450
      @ckehung2450 6 років тому +2

      I can't fathom how you've managed to avoid pop music in public spaces.

    • @zeeshannaeem9747
      @zeeshannaeem9747 6 років тому +1

      I wonder on what basis or principles you decided to avoid pop music,I mean not having interest is understandable but just outright avoiding it purposefully seems like something a hipster would do to make him/herself feel special.

    • @neutronstar6739
      @neutronstar6739 6 років тому

      shouldnt have seen that typo damn it..ignorance is bliss

    • @arcm4210
      @arcm4210 6 років тому +1

      well if youre against the values of those songs which sometimes are argueable it seems reasonable altough it doesnt do much

  • @Baldwhip
    @Baldwhip 2 роки тому +8

    Goated video. My prof has this as an intro video to her cell biology course. Was skeptical going in, but will probably watch this a couple hundred times.

  • @kanter1598
    @kanter1598 2 роки тому +13

    This somehow makes me really proud of humanity

  • @ahoy1014
    @ahoy1014 6 років тому +757

    Finally, a version of Despacito that enhances your brain, rather than melts it.

    • @maxthompson3813
      @maxthompson3813 6 років тому +1

      Planetesimal Brilliant 😂

    • @dinoforest8222
      @dinoforest8222 6 років тому

      Yes

    • @jackfrost1254
      @jackfrost1254 6 років тому +1

      Thinking the exact same thjg

    • @michelrenaud3431
      @michelrenaud3431 6 років тому +15

      Hum, I prefer to think that it stimulates a different area

    • @ericae8337
      @ericae8337 6 років тому +3

      Actually, learning another language improves cognitive skills and overall brain function. Looks like you should try it sometime.

  • @EduPlayerazo
    @EduPlayerazo 6 років тому +91

    As a biologists, I love this song

    • @wanderingazn
      @wanderingazn 6 років тому +3

      What part of biology do you study?

    • @EduPlayerazo
      @EduPlayerazo 6 років тому +5

      wanderingazn molecular genetic

    • @wanderingazn
      @wanderingazn 6 років тому +5

      Sweet! Biologists represent!

    • @annar794
      @annar794 6 років тому +1

      😃

    • @sureyoucan1613
      @sureyoucan1613 6 років тому +2

      Even myself love this song even I am not a biologist.

  • @imagomonkei
    @imagomonkei 3 роки тому +256

    I've listened to this probably 30 times recently. As a recently recovered Young Earth Creationist who wasted the best 15 years of his life absorbed in that crap, finding actual science and seeing it so eloquently put together gives me immense joy. Thank you for all you do.

    • @wallacememberships
      @wallacememberships 3 роки тому +41

      Bravo to you for opening your mind! That's not easy to do and takes great courage so I applaud you for doing it.

    • @imagomonkei
      @imagomonkei 3 роки тому +36

      @@wallacememberships Thank you! It's been so exciting seeing the world through new eyes. I'm like a child all over again. Life is so much freer leaving religion.

    • @eroraf8637
      @eroraf8637 3 роки тому +35

      @@imagomonkei It’s not necessarily religion that’s the problem. The problem lies in excessive literalism and rejection of facts that run counter to deeply held beliefs. It’s entirely possible, and even healthy, to embrace both science and religion; case in point, Gregor Mendel and Georges Lemaître.
      But I’m not here to proselytize. I just wanted to throw in my two cents as a churchgoing astrophysicist. Glad you were able to recover and find this wonderful community. Cheers, mate!

    • @bemusedalligator
      @bemusedalligator 3 роки тому +17

      I find it hilarious that this long after we realized we could use human eye proteins to make a fly grow a FLY eyeball in the wrong place because of a shared gene switch from the paleozoic, there are still creationists.

    • @hyronvalkinson1749
      @hyronvalkinson1749 3 роки тому +15

      This field is exactly the response I give to creationists who insist that we mathematically couldn't program our DNA in several billion years from a coding perspective. If you stuck with machine code, you couldn't mathematically program any version of Microsoft Office or any code made in the past 20 years with the combined knowledge of every human who's ever lived all working at once. However, use machine code to create Assembly to create C and C++ to create Java and other higher level languages to create program-specific languages and the job becomes exponentially easier. Same with evolution, as long as genes can turn other genes on and off like pointers, the impossibly complex human genome of practically infinite individual nucleotides becomes a series of extremely plausible genetic sequences directing and organizing the intercellular structure into what we see today.

  • @javiereastwood2320
    @javiereastwood2320 3 роки тому +6

    I LOVE the complexity of the video, sounds, images, voices, frames..., keep doing them like that

  • @thegreatmoproblox610
    @thegreatmoproblox610 6 років тому +190

    Lyrics, your welcome! :
    EVO-DEVO
    Huxley
    B. Mac
    Oh Carroll, Carroll
    Gould, Stephen Jay yeah
    D-D-D-D-Davidson and Peter
    See
    One cell divide and decide on a thousand fates
    Did you ever figure how they know?
    B. Mac
    We
    Are built of modules combined in a planned out way
    Each new piece must be told where to go
    Oh
    Now there's a science helping us to understand
    How our cells encode this architectural plan
    Signalling each other with genetic tools oh
    Oh yeah
    Wow
    Phenotype the interface for mouse and man
    Genotype the files and the subprograms
    What then are the switches, circuit boards and boot code?
    Evo-Devo
    Looking at the logic in the ways that we grow
    Every gene directed by a signal key code
    Proteins that can activate, enhance or veto
    Evo-Devo
    Signals are controlled by other genes that signal
    Calculating in a network labyrinthal
    Where the heart and liver and the hands and feet go
    Signal mapping tells each region what it ought to be yo
    With circuits so deeply built upon
    They're older than the Paleo
    The Paleozoic Era baby
    In a crucial pathway changes tend to get torpedoed
    Where they go calamity goes
    As this cyclopic sheep knows..
    See down they cascade like a domino
    Like you and I drosophila
    The path that makes us optical
    Was laid a long long time ago
    Back before we blew up the cambrian like a bomb bomb
    Now my eye protein can make you see out of your bom bom
    And Hedgehog and its relatives like Indian and Sonic
    Set up set up in a gradient on segments embryonic
    Split forebrains and asymmetric parts depend upon it
    Flipping on genetic switches and logic
    From devo to evo
    Adult and embryo
    Mostly don't evolve in the genes of the genome
    Safer the mutation aimed at regulation
    Keep the building blocks and swap their activation
    From devo to evo
    Parts have alter egos
    Homologs evolved from repeats in the schema
    Switch a couple bases in the proper places
    You'll be watching flies grow legs out of their faces oh yeah
    Evo-Devo
    Stick around for Modern Synthesis the sequel
    Only by combining can a new theory grow
    Evolution and development amigos
    Evo-Devo
    Signals trigger patterns of complexity so
    Switching up the switches of a signalling node
    Gives a modular and simple way to evolve
    Look at how our spinal segments generate a neat row
    Built on a molecular clock
    One cycle, one vertebra
    One vertebra one vertebra baby
    Speeding up its rate is snakes' developmental cheat code
    That and where a lizard's feet grow
    They turn off distal aminos
    Evo-Devo
    This is how we go from single cells to people
    Every generation and in life primeval
    Life in variations endless and beautiful
    Badaboom
    From devo to evo
    Larva to mosquito
    Patterns are resolved as the signals proceed yo
    Map out a gene with a glow tag
    Kill it with a morpholino
    Short oligo morpholino baby
    From devo to evo
    Voyage of the Beagle
    Body plans evolve when proteins steer the genome
    In this manner life's beauty grows
    Aesthetica in vivo
    Evo-Devo

  • @rubayatmeghdut2734
    @rubayatmeghdut2734 6 років тому +63

    Absolutely Fantastic, How do you do it, you are Mozart with the mind of Einstein.

    • @MaryAnnBriscoeCampbell
      @MaryAnnBriscoeCampbell 6 років тому

      Perfectly stated...a fantastic Einstein, involving brilliant patrons.

  • @mrunalkulkarni1635
    @mrunalkulkarni1635 4 місяці тому +3

    Just saw him perform this live at a science fest and it took me back to my undergrad days when I was obsessed with his content. He was too good on stage! Loved his live performance

  • @OmegaQuark
    @OmegaQuark Рік тому +6

    Oh my, I never comment on UA-cam but man, this is beyond art, this is beyond imagination, this is beyond any other form of music. The production quality of this song video is nuts, and the idea and execution are pure genius. Thanks for giving this masterpiece to humanity. I hope it will live forever, and be preserved by all means possible for future generations.

  • @botigamer9011
    @botigamer9011 6 років тому +34

    Syncronized the audio with Despacito. Fits perfectly

    • @Kearatar3141
      @Kearatar3141 6 років тому +5

      Because you said it, I had to try it. Not all the syllables mesh perfectly (as one would expect with different languages), but I am flabbergasted by the otherwise perfect synchronization! That was one heck of an experience once I did get it synced! Thank you for enlightening my afternoon!

    • @botigamer9011
      @botigamer9011 6 років тому +2

      You are very much welcome my friend. You should try this test with any parody with its original

    • @ImHappyFaceSpider
      @ImHappyFaceSpider 6 років тому +1

      I also checked, and I confirm: The best video on youtube have been found.

  • @wanderingazn
    @wanderingazn 6 років тому +73

    As a developmental biologist, I cannot like this enough! If there are any questions, please reply here and I'll try to answer when I have time!!

    • @channelVlogger
      @channelVlogger 6 років тому +4

      So, I only know the basics of the eukaryote's gene regulation and the song is already hard to get in it's entirety as English isn't my native tongue and the vocabulary used is quite specific.
      Did I get it right that, taken from the pic at 1:20, signals from enhancers and silencers work somewhat similar (yet way more complex and with translation-products) to summation in neurophysiology?
      It seems a pretty complex and fragile system to me, how doesn't it collapse instantly when a part of it suffers a mutation that isn't detected by respective proteins?
      I'm sorry if those questions might seem a bit confusing, I haven't had genetics in a while, but I'd be happy if you found time to answer them.

    • @wanderingazn
      @wanderingazn 6 років тому +8

      Great questions! (1) Regarding the complexity, there are even greater levels of control in gene interaction networks beyond enhancers and silencers to activate/repress genes that are collectively called the epigenome. Part of the control of gene expression is regulating whether or not the DNA is accessible and can recruit the enhancers/silencers in the first place. Let me know if you'd like more info on this!
      (2) Regarding the collapse of these networks due to mutations: I think you're basing your assumption on two points: (a) a mutation happens in a specific site and (b) that site does not tolerate any ambiguity or change. First, the mutation rate in human somatic cells is estimated to be one to two mutations per division. Seems like a high rate right? But when you consider the human genome is approximately 3 billion base pairs in its entirety, the chance of a mutation striking a key regulatory element is astronomically small (especially when you're looking for something to happen to a progenitor cell during development). Second, many of the DNA binding proteins that activate/repress/enhance/silence genes can tolerate varying degrees of ambiguity in the sequence they bind to.

    • @22078990
      @22078990 6 років тому +3

      I'm a botanist with a solid molecular biology background so a lot of this makes sense to me. I've been fascinated with evolutionary processes for some time also. I am wondering what kinds of classes should be teaching evo-devo in detail. Also it does strike me as a little weird that the urbilaterian would be both relatively complex and old, but maybe I'm just underestimating the complexity of little things. :)

    • @generalgoa6148
      @generalgoa6148 6 років тому

      wanderingazn please is the darwinien theory of evolution true and give me some simple proof im just a high school student

    • @wanderingazn
      @wanderingazn 6 років тому

      Veryde, I can’t seem to see your reply for more info on Epigenetics. Do you still want to hear more?

  • @peterolmeda8399
    @peterolmeda8399 Рік тому +12

    Listened to this on loop before my AP Bio presentation as a hype song. Got an A. I put that grade all down to this song.

  • @Corporis
    @Corporis 3 роки тому +2

    3 years later and this song still slaps

  • @trebledawson
    @trebledawson 6 років тому +151

    I was wondering when a Despacito parody was coming. Incredible as always!

    • @Draxper
      @Draxper 6 років тому

      trebledawson Hi, i made an amazing science rap battle. you wud love to hear. Plz check it on my channel. Do give your valuable feedback.

  • @only2ndplace
    @only2ndplace 6 років тому +145

    How did I only now notice, that the beginning of this video is a continuation of 'Molecular Shape of You'?

    • @R.Instro
      @R.Instro 6 років тому +7

      In the words of Carl the Llama, you win the prize: I didn't even notice that one. =D

    • @trishpulley
      @trishpulley 6 років тому +2

      Easter egg! Good spotting.

    • @theudas443
      @theudas443 6 років тому +1

      anyone kind enough to upload them back to back in a single video?

    • @quinius173
      @quinius173 6 років тому +1

      Ask Tim.

  • @studioyokai
    @studioyokai Рік тому +19

    This. THIS magnificent piece is why we have Fair Use. I think I like this better than the original it's parodying?? Also this is probably the most directly educational parody I've ever heard!
    And just think of how many other people over the course of thousands of years working hard and observing and turning over ideas it took just to get the BASIS of this song, either scientifically or musically. A billion years of evolution and a few thousand of examining our own world with curiosity in depth... to create this beautiful, melodic, lyrical piece using ONLY human voice...
    Frickin. Humanity!!! We're kinda neat 💖

  • @Ajehy
    @Ajehy 2 роки тому +10

    They should show this in High School bio classes. I learned a crazy amount by just rewatching this & getting it stuck in my head.

  • @Chickenkeeper
    @Chickenkeeper 6 років тому +59

    I love well you give your lyrics the same rhythm as the original ones, many parodies fail to do that and end up worse for it!

  • @EladLerner
    @EladLerner 5 років тому +134

    Listening to this song brings me tears of pure joy. Aesthetica in vivo.

  • @starbuckr5381
    @starbuckr5381 3 місяці тому +1

    3:13 "This is how we go from single cells to people / every generation and in life primeval / life in variations endless and beautiful". This moment always gives me goose bumps. It's made me cry before. Beautifully written.

  • @sweeternickel70
    @sweeternickel70 Рік тому +10

    This man needs to be protected at all costs, he just told us the structure of life in a couple minutes

  • @kristenhurst4760
    @kristenhurst4760 6 років тому +55

    Why can I only like this once? You are a freaking genius! Your musicality is phenomenal and your scientific explanation is perfect!

  • @ChinmaiNaregal
    @ChinmaiNaregal 6 років тому +215

    Guys I think UA-cam is broken...It says that this video has 367k views but I'm pretty sure I've seen it more times than it!!!

    • @baarish216
      @baarish216 6 років тому +3

      same!

    • @amyshaw893
      @amyshaw893 6 років тому +1

      4:45 per view, and you say 367k views. that makes 3.31448634 years, according to google. i will take off one month from the publishing time, making 60 days into 29 days. 3.31448634 years / 29 days is 41.716810831(ish). so even if 41 people had been watching it constantly since it came out, that would only just make 367K views.
      Dont post bad comments on a clever people channel

    • @rupeshbaroniya8135
      @rupeshbaroniya8135 6 років тому

      949k

    • @ChinmaiNaregal
      @ChinmaiNaregal 6 років тому +1

      Matthew Shaw It was a joke my man
      Chill😂😂

    • @PIssa-yg1su
      @PIssa-yg1su 6 років тому

      Matthew Shaw yo wtf, calm down 😂😂😂

  • @user-tp1xv9ow2g
    @user-tp1xv9ow2g 4 місяці тому +1

    I was introduced to this song in Gen Bio in 2019. Five years later I am a third year Biomedical Sciences PhD Candidate and still watch it every few months. It helps me remember why I fell in love with Biology and want to spend my life in research, when that's not always easy to remember in the midst of failed experiments. Thank you for this gift that keeps on giving!

  • @ashton8289
    @ashton8289 Рік тому +3

    My evolution professor at uni played this in class before our evolutionary development lecture. I absolutely love how you conceptualize the amazing process that is evolution. Knowing the specifics of gene regulation and development just makes it so much better