Extinction rate is accelerating, according to researchers
Analysis of thousands of vertebrate species reveals that extinction rates are likely much faster than previously thought. The researchers, including Stanford biologist Paul Ehrlich, call for immediate global action, such as a ban on the wildlife trade, to slow the sixth mass extinction. Re
From playlist Stanford Highlights
How Humans Accelerated Extinction By 1,000X
Episode 1 of 3 Check us out on iTunes! http://testtube.com/podcast Please Subscribe! http://testu.be/1FjtHn5 We may currently well be in the midst of a 6th mass extinction but how much of species loss can be attributed to humans and their endeavors? + + + + + + + + Previous Series: H
From playlist How To Destroy, Protect And Revive Animals
Teach Astronomy - Mass Extinctions
http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Species have been developing and becoming extinct throughout the history of life on Earth. Extinction is not unusual. However, there have been certain periods of time when the extinction rate increases dramatically. Essentially large fractions of the numbe
From playlist 08. Solar Neighborhood and Space Exploration
In the first such global evaluation, Stanford biologists found more than 30 percent of all vertebrates have declining populations. They call for curbs on the basic drivers of these losses. Read more: http://news.stanford.edu/press/view/15368
From playlist Stanford Highlights
Teach Astronomy - Mass Extinctions
http://www.teachastronomy.com/ Species have been developing and becoming extinct throughout the history of life on Earth. Extinction is not unusual. However, there have been certain periods of time when the extinction rate increases dramatically. Essentially large fractions of the numbe
From playlist 26. Life on Earth
The 6th Mass Extinction Has Begun
Research papers: http://www.pnas.org/content/114/30/E6089 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/1/5/e1400253 Learn more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/jul/10/earths-sixth-mass-extinction-event-already-underway-scientists-warn https://theconversation.com/earths-sixth-
From playlist Extinction and the Value of Biodiversity
Extinction of Species | Evolution | Biology | FuseSchool
When a plant or animal species that once lived stops existing entirely, we say that that species has become extinct. Why do certain species of plants and animals sometimes become extinct? According to the theory of evolution, individuals of the same species show a range of variations. So
From playlist Extinction and the Value of Biodiversity
Why The Next Mass Extinction May Already Be Here
Please Subscribe! http://testu.be/1FjtHn5 There have been 5 mass extinctions on earth so far and many indicators show us that we may be in the throes of a 6th mass extinction now! + + + + + + + + Sources: National Health Statistics Reports: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/nhsr/nh
From playlist Weather And Climate Change
The Missing Pieces in the 6th Mass Extinction
Recent biodiversity reports point to a drastic drop in species across the world, but on the local scale the results are more mixed. We're also missing data from some of the key ecosystems on our planet. In order to fight off the 6th mass extinction, we need more data to get a complete pict
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Will your name become extinct? - Numberphile
Dr James Grime discusses the mathematics of extinction. More links & stuff in full description below ↓↓↓ Extras from this interview: https://youtu.be/zomuAufWXr0 Related but different video on the math of ancestry: https://youtu.be/Fm0hOex4psA More James Grime videos: http://bit.ly/grime
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Understanding the basic reproduction number via branching process by Sujit Kumar Nath
Seminar Understanding the basic reproduction number via branching process Speaker: Sujit Kumar Nath (University of Leeds) Date: Wed, 30 September 2020, 15:00 to 16:30 Venue: Online seminar Abstract Branching process is a random process having many applications in physics, biology a
From playlist Seminar Series
Fate of rare mutations: diffusion approximations by Lindi Wahl
Program Fourth Bangalore School on Population Genetics and Evolution ORGANIZERS: Deepa Agashe and Kavita Jain DATE: 27 January 2020 to 07 February 2020 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore No living organism escapes evolutionary change, and evolutionary biology thus connect
From playlist Fourth Bangalore School On Population Genetics And Evolution
The History Of Earth's Five Mass Extinction Events [4K] | The Next Great Extinction Event | Spark
Earth’s history has been marked by five great extinction events. With the current background extinction rate 1000 times the normal, have humans brought about the 6th mass extinction? The changes our species has wrought upon Earth, its ecology & climate, has led geologists to compare us to
From playlist The UnEarth Series
Non-equilibrium statistical physics: Introductory examples (Lecture - 04) by Sidney Redner
Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VIII DATE: 28 June 2017 to 14 July 2017 VENUE: Ramanujan Lecture Hall, ICTS, Bengaluru This advanced level school is the eighth in the series. This is a pedagogical school, aimed at bridging the gap between masters-level courses and topics in s
From playlist Bangalore School on Statistical Physics - VIII
Peter Mörters: Metastability of the contact process on evolving scale-free networks
We study the contact process in the regime of small infection rates on scale-free networks evolving by stationary dynamics. A parameter allows us to interpolate between slow (static) and fast (mean-field) network dynamics. For two paradigmatic classes of networks we investigate transitions
From playlist Probability and Statistics
Take a Trilobites Tour! #LearnWithMe
The first trilobites evolved some 520 million years ago, and scientists have since discovered more than 20,000 species of these marine arthropods. Join us for a tour of the Museum’s trilobite collections! See how trilobites helped one scientist develop the theory of punctuated equilibria
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Science Night at the LeRoy Collins Leon Co Public Library Live On Zoom
Guest Speaker: Jeremy Owens
From playlist Science Night
Within-host modelling and stochastic models - II by Daniel Coombs
Dynamics of Complex Systems - 2017 DATES: 10 May 2017 to 08 July 2017 VENUE: Madhava Lecture Hall, ICTS Bangalore This Summer Program on Dynamics of Complex Systems is second in the series. The theme for the program this year is Mathematical Biology. Over the past decades, the focus o
From playlist Dynamics of Complex Systems - 2017
29. Island Biogeography and Invasive Species
Principles of Evolution, Ecology and Behavior (EEB 122) Geography is very important in ecology. Two major systems have been designed to model this, island biogeography and metapopulations. The idea of metapopulations is more recent, and has emerged as the dominant theory. Metapopulation
From playlist Evolution, Ecology and Behavior with Stephen C. Stearns
How To Solve The Alien Extinction Riddle - HARD Job Interview Question
A single alien lands on Earth. Every day after that, each alien on Earth undergoes a transformation, which could be any of the four equally likely events: (a) the alien dies, (b) the alien does nothing, (c) the alien replicates itself (2 aliens total), (d) the alien replicates itself twice
From playlist Statistics And Probability