Black American History Arts & Culture | Compilation

From Crash Course. Crash Course Black American History explores arts and culture! Learn about the art, literature, and political thought innovations of the Harlem Renaissance, the literature of Toni Morrison and Zora Neale Hurston, the origins of rap and hip-hop, and the poetry of Phillis Wheatley. *** Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support…

Mitosis and the Cell Cycle: Crash Course Biology #29

From Crash Course. What’s the life of a cell like? In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll follow a cell’s life cycle, from its beginning as a shiny new cell all the way to division via mitosis. We’ll learn how our cells control this process, and what happens when things go wrong. Chapters: Main…

A Tour of the Cell: Crash Course Biology #23

From Crash Course. The cell is the basic unit of life, and our understanding of it has advanced as science, and the tools available to scientists, has advanced. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll take a look at the difference between prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, take a guided tour of the eukaryotic cell,…

How Did Humans Evolve? Crash Course Biology #19

From Crash Course. What’s a human? And how did we become humans, anyway? In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll meet some of our closest relatives and trace how we evolved into the brainy, inventive, complex species we are today. Chapters: The First Humans 00:00 What is a Human? 1:18 Hominins 2:31 Dr. Xinzhi…

Humans Develop Butt First (and other insights from the Tree of Life): Crash Course Biology #18

From Crash Course. Everywhere you look on Earth, you’ll find wonderful and diverse living things, from tiny tardigrades to soaring sequoias. And incredibly, everything alive today, and everything that’s ever lived, is related. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we reveal how the evolutionary relationships between living things define their place on a single,…

How We’re All Related (Phylogeny): Crash Course Biology #17

From Crash Course. Crocodiles, and birds, and dinosaurs—oh my! While classifying organisms is nothing new, phylogeny— or, grouping organisms by their evolutionary relationships—is helping us see life in a whole new light. In this episode of Crash Course Biology, we’ll learn why this kingdom-phylum stuff is going out of style and why phylogenetic trees are…