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Species extinction in the course of time

Over the last 500 million years, biodiversity on Earth has been constantly changing. Like a fever curve, this has been going uphill and some times steeply downhill. These downward outliers are described as the five great mass extinctions. Authors: 3sat/nano/scobel/Harald Zander/Claus Ast/Jochen Sch

Do humans need meat?

Do we humans need meat for a balanced diet? Our ancestors, prehistoric and early humans, were predominantly fruit eaters. Today, Germans eat about 60 kilograms of meat a year. Critics think this is way too much. Authors: 3sat/nano/scobel/Kerstin Achenbach/Claus Ast Translation and dubbing: alugha

Why does a zebra have stripes?

Even the common ancestor of horses and zebras wore a subtle pattern. In the course of time, the stripes prevailed in the offspring. The tsetse fly was responsible for this selection, because it recognized only single-colored animals and infected them with diseases. Author: ZDF/TerraX/R.Schlosshan/F

How did the cat come to man?

In ancient Egypt, the ancestor of the domestic cat was revered and became the companion of people. From the realm of the pharaohs, the first tame specimens probably reached today's Europe with Roman soldiers. Author: ZDF/Terra X/Spiegel TV/ Nanje de Jong-Teuscher, Kirsten Hoehne/Anja Schütze, Uli W

The expansion of the proto-Germanic peoples

The ancestors of the Germanic peoples probably lived in Eurasia. Around 1000 BC., some of them reached the settlement area between the Baltic Sea and the Alps, and throughout centuries, they even reached the Danube, the Vistula and Scandinavia Author: ZDF/Terra X/Gruppe 5/ Sabine Bier, Sahar Eslah

Benidorm Shopping & Gastronomy 4K (English Version)

Web http://en.visitbenidorm.es FB: https://www.facebook.com/visitbenidorm Blog: https://lifeinbenidorm.com The richness and variety of the Benidorm cuisine has been achieved thanks to the influences from our ancestors and other civilizations that have inspired the local recipes. Imagine a shoppi

John B. Watson – Behavioral Science

John B. Watson had famously claimed that he, a dozen healthy infants, could mold into anything. To doctors, lawyers, artists, beggars or thieves, regardless of their origin or genetic predisposition. Special thanks to our Patreons: Avigail, Badrah, Cedric Wang, David Markham, Denis Kraus, Don Bone,

Watson’s Theory of Behaviourism

John B. Watson famously claimed that if he were to be given a dozen healthy infants, he could shape them into anything; doctors, lawyers, artists, beggars, or thieves, regardless of their background or genetic predispositions. First, he completed experiments with 8-month old Albert. He later applied