Common Misconceptions About Evolution

Evolution is particularly vulnerable to misunderstandings around the scientific language. SciShow clears up some confusing language! Learn more about epigenetics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kp1bZEUgqVI Hosted by: Hank Green ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Dooblydoo thanks go to the following Patreon supporters—we couldn't make SciShow without them! Shout out to Kevin Bealer, Mark Terrio-Cameron, KatieMarie Magnone, Patrick Merrithew, Charles Southerland, Fatima Iqbal, Benny, Kyle Anderson, Tim Curwick, Scott Satovsky Jr, Will and Sonja Marple, Philippe von Bergen, Bella Nash, Bryce Daifuku, Chris Peters, Patrick D. Ashmore, Charles George, Bader AlGhamdi ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: http://www.muslimheritage.com/scholars/al-jahiz https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13671-evolution-myths-survival-of-the-fittest-justifies-everyone-for-themselves https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13687-evolution-myths-evolution-promotes-the-survival-of-species https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13615-evolution-myths-everything-is-an-adaptation/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13616-evolution-myths-natural-selection-is-the-only-means-of-evolution http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/history/lamarck.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/library/faq/cat01.html http://abyss.uoregon.edu/~js/21st_century_science/lectures/lec09.html http://io9.gizmodo.com/5954898/humanity-never-had-a-missing-link-to-apes http://www.csicop.org/si/show/getting_the_monkey_off_darwins_back http://io9.gizmodo.com/5988401/why-survival-of-the-fittest-is-wrong http://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolibrary/article/4_0_0/evo_27 http://www.nature.com/scitable/definition/evolution-78 http://archive.aramcoworld.com/issue/198203/science.the.islamic.legacy-the.book.of.animals.htm http://www.livescience.com/21491-what-is-a-scientific-theory-definition-of-theory.html http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/15/books/review/darwins-ghosts-by-rebecca-stott.html http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/12/31/why-there-are-no-missing-links/ https://ncse.com/blog/2014/11/misconception-monday-missing-links-0015978 Image Links: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jean-Baptiste_de_Lamarck.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Robert_Malthus_Wellcome_L0069037_-crop.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Al-Jahiz_-_pages_from_Kitaab_al_Hayawaan_3.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Stan_the_Trex_at_Manchester_Museum.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Partridge_Silkie_hen.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Random_sampling_genetic_drift.svg