Here you’ll find a large collection of evolutionary-themed videos, arranged by topic, from EvoS-affiliated events and speakers as well as from all over the web! Also see our EvoS Seminar Series page for many more videos! Please contact the webmaster with ideas for additions.
The EvoS Consortium
- Introduction to EvoS
David Sloan Wilson & Dan O’Brien [Binghamton University] - About the EvoS Program at SUNY New Paltz
Glenn Geher [SUNY New Paltz]
Botany
- A Plant’s-Eye View
Michael Pollan [TED; March, 2007] - Mutualists, Pathogens, and the Evolution of Sex in Wild Garlic
Margaret L. Ronsheim [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2010] - The Hidden Beauty of Pollination
Louie Schwartzberg [TED; March, 2011]
Controversy
- The Greatest Show on Earth
Richard Dawkins [Berkeley, California; October 7, 2009] - Response to Rick Warren
Daniel Dennett [TED; February, 2006] - Fossils, Genes, and Mousetraps: Evidence for Evolution and the Intelligent Design Controversy
Kenneth Miller [Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 2006] - Investigating Evolution
Kevin Padian [Grace Cathedral, San Francisco; November 4, 2007] - Intelligent Design v. Evolutionary Theory
Elliot Sober [Binghamton University; 2006] - Reconciling Religion and Science
James Wiseman & Michael Ruse [Howard Hughes Medical Institute 2005]
Development and Learning
- Childhood Experience and the Development of Reproductive Strategies: An Evolutionary Theory of Socialisation Revisited
Jay Belsky, [Binghamton University; Fall 2010] - Cognitive Ecology: Evolutionary Approaches to Associative Learning
Karen Hollis [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Testosterone and Male Life History: Evidence for Developmental Adaptation in the Philippines
Chris Kuzawa [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - The Haphazard Construction of the Human Mind
Gary Marcus [Palo Alto, California; April 23, 2008] - Is Case-Based Decision Theory Consistent with Empirical Patterns of Human Classification Learning?
Andreas Duus Pape and Kenneth Kurtz [Binghamton University; Spring 2011]
Ecology
- Evolutionary Ecological Change in the Devonian Period of NY State
Carleton Brett [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2010] - Here on Earth: An Argument for Hope
Timothy Flannery [San Francisco; May 3, 2011] - Using Historical Biodiversity Data to Infer Climatic Shifts on California Coastal Environments
Terrence Gosliner [California Academy of Sciences; March 19, 2011] - Mammals and Climate Change
Elizabeth Hadly [California Academy of Sciences; March 18, 2010] - Lyrical Nature Photos
Frans Lanting [TED; February, 2005] - Mammals and Lice: Evolutionary Insights from Host-Parasite Associations Jessica Light [Binghamton University; Spring 2011]
- Untangling the Entangled Bank: Direct and Indirect Effects of Antagonism on Mutualism
Kari Segraves, [Binghamton University; Fall 2010]
Education
- State of EvoS 2011: Darwin Day — Part One, and Part Two
Glenn Geher [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2011] - Workshop on Teaching Evolution in American Schools
Glenn Geher, Niles Eldgridge, Greg Eldridge, & Michelle Eldridge [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2010] - The Human Ancestral Environment for Education, and Its Relevance for Education Today
Peter Gray [Binghamton University; Fall 2009]
Emotion and Cognition
- Investigations at the Interface of Morphology, Evolution, and Cognition
Josh Bongard, [Binghamton University; Fall 2010] - Why Are We Happy?
Dan Gilbert [TED; February 2004] - The Moral Roots of Liberals and Conservatives
Jonathan Haidt [TED; March 2008] - The Empathic Civilization: The Evolution of Empathy
Jeremy Rifkin [RSA Animation] - The Evolution of Compassion
Robert Wright [London; October, 2009] - The Real Reason the Brain Evolved
Daniel Wolpert [Edinburgh, Scotland; July, 2011]
Evolution (General)
- Videos for Students (Evolving Ideas) PBS.org
- Evolution Video of the Day HowStuffWorks.com
- Evolution’s Genius TED.com
- The Genial Gene
Joan Roughgarden [Mountain View, California; June 22, 2009]
Evolutionary Psychology (General)
- Cute, Sexy, Sweet, Funny
Daniel Dennett [TED; February 2009] - How Did Evolution Shape Human Behavior?
David De Gusta & William Henry Gilbert [Berkeley; November 7, 2010] - Symbolic Behavior, Behavioral Psychology, and the Clinical Importance of Evolution Science
Steven C. Hayes [Binghamton University; Spring 2011]
History & Science of Evolutionary Study
- What Did Darwin Do?
Warren Almon [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - Evolution: Constant Change and Common Threads
Sean B. Carroll & David M. Kingsley [Howard Hughes Medical Institute; 2005] - Mr. Jefferson and the Giant Moose
Lee Dugatkin [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2010] - Darwin: Discovering the Tree of Life
Niles Eldridge and Ken Nystrom[SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2010] - Evolutionary Theory: Toward an Extended Synthesis?
Massimo Pigliucci [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - How Far Can Darwin Take Us?
Steven Pinker & Adam Gopnik [New York City; May 20, 2009] - Is Charles Darwin Past His Sell By Date?
Michael Ruse [University of Sydney; February 17, 2009]
Human Evolution, Culture, and Comparative Evolution
- Part Ape, Part Human: The Fossils of Malapa
Lee Berger [National Geographic; October 19, 2011] - Are Humans Still Evolving?
Christopher Dye [Gresham University; March 26, 2009] - Evolution of the Dominant Animal
Paul R. Ehrlich [San Francisco, California; April 15, 2009] - Are We Reading for Neo-Evolution?
Harvey Fineberg [TED; March 2011] - Ask a Scientist: Sex and War
Thomas Hayden and David Malcolm Potts [San Francisco, California; March 24, 2009] - The Illusion of Skin Color
Nina Jablonski [TED; February, 2009] - Neanderthals Deciphered
Jean-Jacques Hublin [California Academy of Sciences; January 18, 2011] - Lucy’s Legacy: The Quest for Human Origins
Donald Johanson [California Academy of Sciences; May 9, 2011] - Digging for Humanity’s Origins
Louise Leakey [TED; February 2008] - A Debate: Who was the Hobbit?
Robert Martin and Ian Tattersall [San Francisco, California; December 6, 2011] - We Evolved from Aquatic Apes
Elain Morgan [TED; July, 2009] - DNA Clues to Our Inner Neanderthal
Svante Pääbo [Edinburgh, Scotland; August, 2011] - How Language Transformed Humanity
Mark Pagel [Edinburgh, Scotland; July, 2011] - The Leakey Foundation
Anne Pusey [California Academy of Sciences; October 15, 2010] - Recent Discoveries in the Sierra de Atapuerca (Spain)
Rolf Quam [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - The Neurons That Shaped Civilization
V.S. Ramachandran [Mysore, India; November, 2009] - Australopithecus sediba: a New Species of Homo-like Australopith from South Africa
Darryl de Ruiter [Binghamton University; Fall 2010] - Genes, Technology, and the Evolution of Culture
Matt Ridley [University of Melbourne; July 2011] - The Most Dangerous Animal: Human Nature and the Origin of War
David Livingstone Smith [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - Neandertals, Races and Assimilation Model of Modern Human Origins
Fred Smith [Binghamton University; Fall 2010] - A Bite Through Time
Tanya M. Smith [California Academy of Sciences; November 6, 2010] - The Evolution of Human Diet
Teresa E. Steele [California Academy of Sciences; November 6, 2010] - A Family Tree of Humanity
Spencer Wells [Arusha, Tanzania; June, 2007] - From Bones to Bodies
Adrienne Zihlman [California Academy of Sciences; September 28, 2010] - Are “Ardi” and “Lucy” Really Female?
Adrienne Zihlman [California Academy of Sciences; November 6, 2010]
Humanities
- A Sociobiological View of Hero Creation
Victoria Engels Ph.D [Department of Biology, Marist College; Spring 2011] - From Landscape to Life: An Artist’s View
Steven Siegel [Binghamton University; Fall 2009]
Mating and Sexuality
- The Peacock’s Tale
PBS [2001] - A Darwinian Theory of Beauty
Denis Dutton [TED; February, 2010] - The Evolution of Non-Conceptive Mating: New Insights from Studies of Wild Western Gorillas
Diane Doran-Sheehy [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Why We Love and Cheat
Helen Fisher [TED; February 2006] - How Women Compete for Mates
Maryanne Fisher [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - The Science of Sex Appeal: An Evolutionary Perspective
Gordon Gallup [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - Intimacy, Infidelity and the Individual
Justin Garcia [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - Hormones and Human Childcare: Evolutionary and Proximate Dimensions of a Cooperative Breeder
Peter B. Gray [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Desire, Sex, Longing for Love: A Tripartite Conundrum
William Jankowiak [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Hedging Their Bets? Explaining Long-Term Investment in Juveniles by Male Baboons
Liza Moscovice [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Darwin’s Legacy in the Behavioural Sciences: Human Mating Research in the 20th Century
David Schmitt [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009]
Medicine and Health
- Our Natural Sleep Cycle
Jessa Gamble [Oxford, UK; July 2010] - How We Get Cancer and Why it Has Been so Hard to Cure
Carlo C. Maley [Binghamton University] - Evolution and Premenstrual Syndrome
Chris Reiber [Binghamton University; Fall 2009] - Ancestral Health Symposium
[UCLA; August 2011]
Microbiology
- How Bacteria “Talk”
Bonnie Bassler [TED; February 2009] - Can We Domesticate Germs?
Paul Ewald [TED; March 2007] - A Planet of Viruses
Carl Zimmer [San Francisco, California; June 7, 2011]
Molecular Evolution and Genetics
- Who Lives? Who Dies?
Martin Chalfie, Beth Shapiro [National Geographic; November 11, 2011] - A New Tale of the Primate Split
Todd Disotell [California Academy of Sciences; January 12, 2010] - The Jumping Genome: Changing Ideas about Heredity and Evolution
Nina Federoff [Santa Fe Institute; September 13, 2006] - Nature, Nurture…or Neither?
Steve Jones [Canberra, Australia; April 13, 2011]
Public Policy and Applied Evolution
- The Evolving World: Applications of evolutionary science, from public health to forensics to conservation
David Mindell [California Academy of Sciences; February 10, 2009] - The Case for Capitalism from an Evolutionary Perspective
Michael Shermer [Washington, D.C.; January 11, 2008] - Does Understanding Evolution Help us Understand Ethics?
Peter Singer [University of Sydney; February 9, 2011] - Evolving the City
David Sloan Wilson [University of Sydney; 2010]
Technology
- Using Nature to Grow Batteries
Angela Belcher [Caltech; January 2011] - Nature’s Designs
Janine Benyus [TED; February 2005] - More Perfect Than We Imagined: A Physicist’s View
William Bialek [New York City; November 3, 2010] - Memes and “Temes”
Susan Blackmore [TED; February, 2008] - “Self-Aware” Robots
Hod Lipson [TED; March, 2007] - How Technology Evolves
Kevin Kelly [TED; February, 2005] - To Upgrade is Human
Gregory Stock [TED; February, 2003]
Zoology & Paleontology
- Engineering and Evolution
Robert Full [TED; February, 2002] - Animal Movement
Robert Full [TED; February, 2005] - Underwater Astonishment
- David Gallo [TED; March, 2007]
- Diet, Sex, and Aging for Supermodels (supermodel organisms, that is)
Aaron Haselton [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009] - Sea Monster Island
Jørn Hurum [National Geographic; December 16, 2011] - Phylogeny and Evolution of Unusual Genetic Systems in Armored Scale Insects Ben Normark [SUNY New Paltz; Spring 2009]
- Diversity and Evolution of Coral Reef Fishes
Luiz Rocha [California Academy of Sciences; January 24, 2012] - The Real-Life Culture of Bonobos
Susan Savage-Rumbaugh [TED; February 2004] - Digging up Dinosaurs
Paul Sereno [TED; February, 2005] - Assassin Spiders from Around the World
Hannah Wood [California Academy of Sciences; November 3, 2010]
Miscellaneous
- Finding Life We Can’t Imagine
Cristoph Adami [University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign; February 2011] - Growing Up in the Universe
Richard Dawkins [Royal Institution of Great Britain, December, 1991] - Our “Queer” Universe
Richard Dawkins [Oxford, UK; July, 2005] - Bigfoot and Wild Men of the Forest
Eugenie C. Scott [San Francisco; January 13, 2009] - Science and Skepticism
Eugenie C. Scott [Berkeley, California; April 24, 2010]