This man is giving us a 30min video, legend. Happy new year man.

Very well made! Making such a long and in-depth video is definitely a challenge, at least for me. I definitely want to make longer videos, and my holiday special that is coming out will hopefully be at least 15 minutes long since I still haven't made anything longer than that.

This is one of the most underrated paleontology channels on youtube. Wonderful video!

At a loose end last night, typed 'Burgess Shale' into my smart TV, and this came up. A great rendition of a subject dear to my heart (I read Gould's 'Wonderful Life' years ago).

You have truelly outdone yourself with this video! Keep being amazing!

Music on point, production novel & information/exposition accurate + engaging. You're making me take notes dude, seriously top notch quality.

Wonderful stuff, thank you so much for creating such interesting content!

Came to this video from reading Bill Bryson's description of the Burgess Shale. Magnificent. Keep up the good work.

Once again you've knocked it out of the park

Thank you for this video, colleague! It's great ✨

amazing work . thank you

Man, this is a really nice video, thanks for your contribution.

Very well done, Ty.

What in interesting video and random find! Beautiful video :)) how cool to find on my recommended!

That was beautiful. Thank you.

You’re amazing. I loved this.

This was absolutely wonderful my dude 😊👍‼️

brilliant ! one of my favourite books and a well written presentation with great music.

Great video. Thank you

Fascinating subject and great presentation and production!

Lovely video

i love this video

This was great!

Man I remember reading the beginning of Goulds book when I was a kid. My uncle borrowed it to me but I eventually stopped reading since I didn't understand much of it at the time... Maybe I should try again :)

Destin from EDGE sent me over and holy shit you are good! I just watched the Meg video before this and I am awed with the quality of both. As if that wasn't enough, you're the first paleotuber I've heard pronounce Yixian correctly!

Great video!

Awesome video, thanks a lot ! (great music too :) Over the garden wall right ?)

Did you ever listen to the Palaeo After Dark podcast? I highly recommend it to you ,if you haven't. Especially episodes(33,38 and 24)

What a gem of a program....even if its but me off "Auld lang syne" for life ...lol...totally worth a watch...

I'm currently re-reading Wonderful Life (I first read it for my paleontology course in college), and there's a question that's been burning in my mind: does the re-classification of the Burgess fauna since the book's publication (organisms thought to belong to their own unique phylum are now considered to be stem members of modern phyla) undermine Gould's argument of contingency shaping the evolutionary history of life?

1:36 im important

Music used at 3:40?

Life and business operate by largely the same rules: everything in life is location, location, location... that alone aids massively in explaining why some survive and others perish... also, an animal's niche is to be thought of as its "job" or its "business", its "employment"; that too aids massively in clarifying why the Cambrian Explosion happened: the job opportunities had opened up, and where there's an opportunity someone will exploit it.

American Lion, stay away from me. American Lion; kitty let me be. Don't come hanging around my cave door; don't want to see your shadow no more.

What's the song during the act transitions?

Please come back 🥺

I really love your presentation but I hate the music and weird movie inset. It is very well done and quite easy to understand.

Opabinia rules.

I KNEW there was a woman behind this!

anomalocaris!!!

Vocal track needs more bass and get a pop filter for your mic. Very good otherwise.

a very interesting video. I loved learning about the whole anomilacrus thing. The contingency thing was also interesting to bring up. While i personally do not feel that the survivors in evolution is fully random, there is defiantly a random aspect to it. While the kpg mass extinction defiantly favored the small creatures, therefore the survivors picked not being fully random, there we certainly some lineages that made it through or didn't just because on got lucky and the other didn't. I do feel that this needs to be aplyed to our understand of the history of life. That many of the sussecful groups of animals we not destined to rule and sometimes were no better then other lineages, at least in there ancestral state, but why they won in the end is just simply because of random chance.

Teeth were durable untill the invention of chocolate.

Am I the only one here so far?

Speculative convergent evolution on alien worlds with similar makeup and chemistry as earth, and not too cold or too hot to support life probably contain at least simple forms of life such as stromatolites or bacteria, and evolution moving forward towards more complex forms would exhibit general convergence with earth life forms. But as to the probably of more convergent and complex life forms such as us evolving to occupy earthlike planets, that would seem to vanish to near zero given the chances or mischances of evolution through time as this film seems to emphasize. So the most basic primitive life may abound in the universe. But meeting our direct human relations must be close to vanishingly small, even if still possible and even probable given the size of the cosmos. We might be meeting predatory squid or giant arthropods on terrestrial worlds as likely as we would be meeting advanced primates, or not encounter advanced species at all. Still, there are those pesky rumors of UFOs and governments aware of extra terrestrial visitors. Hard to explain but maybe evolution is more reliable in producing .complex creatures than seems likely, and life once established evolves naturally into more complex forms.

The Creator made all of this ,Halleluyah!

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What an outstanding piece of work !! This is what I thought KZfaq would become, rather than " Drunk Karens Getting Their Due ". Unfortunately our significantly dumbed down latest generations want things like " Trans activist has second thoughts while smoking poop from coyotes who ate peyote ". Anyway, just a super job on this vid. Really just super !!