The biggest invention in history | Nick Lane and Lex Fridman
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Nick Lane is a biochemist at UCL and author of Transformer, The Vital Question, and many other amazing books on biology, chemistry, and life.
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Clear, concise and easy to understand. To communicate this way about these topics and ideas is a reflection of how deep his understanding is. Good stuff.
It's this type of interview that makes me wish i did better in school...amazing information. 👏🤝
Learned about this in school and never forgot it. The fact that in the wild and dissonant chaos of nature two organisms were able to come together and conjoin and co-evolve as a unified cell is mind-blowing. The first ever time life worked together..
The first mitochondrium was a parasite that got inside another bacteria and used its resources to multiply. When the host bacteria managed to survive the process they started to evolve together.
We don't know that. The first could have been symbiotic. I know it wasn't black and white and there may have been a zoo of such proto eucaryotes around waring for supremacy and after billions of years our eucaryote emerged then allowing a quantum leap. Now it appears Homo sapiens will emerge from the age of eucaryotes and the quantum leap is even more incredible as the emerging property is technology 😀.
I hate when anybody tries to imply anything other than recordkeeping is the greatest invention. You literally cannot work om something twice without it, everything before was just memory and asking ppl and trying things. Nothing will ever be more important than record keeping, not even close.
memory is an invention. communication is as well. cant have one without the other. so I say communication is pretty great
Fire >
The more I learn about evolution the more it sounds like our existence is random and I don’t think a lot of people will ever accept that.
There is no such thing as “random” ;)
@@chknrsandTBBTROX73 I AGREE WITH L O V
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evolution is non random selection of random mutations
I feel the more i learn the more i think about the opposite
we were asked to list the top 4 inventions in one of my EE classes. I went with the ability to communicate as a theme; in order: the spoken word, the written word, the printing press, the telegraph/telephone (which leads to the invention of the transistor>computers)
Who
Biggest invention in history is hammock
Evolution is so interesting
Cells within cells. Interesting. How many levels deep is this known to go?
Prokaryotes are generally extremely small and therefore you can't really put another organism inside of them. If you count viruses or jumping genes as some kind of life then I guess that's where the last level would be.
I think we're down to 3 quarks inside a Neutron, or the laziest photon associated with the electromagnetic spectrum.
Those are mud fossils. First picture you put up.
To me the biggest invention or discovery in history was antibiotics. That has completely changed our life in so many positive ways.
like MRSA
The sun would not shine nothing would exist above without quantum physics way bigger discovery.
I love how Lex engineering brain struggles to switch to biology.
I'm impressed how much better he does than me.
I feel like an edited up version of this would do better in shorts or someone should be doing them. With music and cuts.
You're really addicted to the screens huh?
@@drboone357 I admire good editing and knowledge of the CZcams algorithm. That’s all :) I watch NFL games just for the production, editing and tactics they use.
imo the internet is still the greatest invention to date. The ability to share knowledge instantly is superior to any of that knowledge
better than the spoken word, or the radio? how about the transistor?
Let's just say that information is spread at hyperspeed, be it correct info or false info (kind of cancels itself out, doesn't it? I guess if the emitter "means it well", there is a positive output on the receiver's end after all but that cannot be guaranteed)
I know what is bad and good
Biological invention…. I think the more interesting question is what’s the most important human invention?
A dated bone in Africa with rudimentary cuts that symbolizes counting.
@@osifox8119 You could be right. I’m not sure counting is really an invention though, seems more like a discovery. A spear might be one of mankinds most important inventions, allowing us to hunt bigger animals and whatnot. Interesting question.
@@tokyoterrestrial7420 math is a discovery as well as a human construct. Some tribes in the Amazon and elsewhere who have lost contact from urban centers would refer to 5 or 6 items as simply many. The spear is up there although the pen may be mightier than the sword.
Fire. Easily and unquestionable fire. Watch Lex’s videos with Richard Wrangham
@@NobleVagabond2552 Fire isn’t a human invention though
How far could humans progress in science if we stopped limiting ourselves to the narrow minded belief that Eukaryote’s somehow evolved into complex bodily functions & organs that work symbiotically together to create a consciously aware state, to do things like see colors, express emotion or create things like art and music that evoke feelings and abstract thought?
Belief? Shit's a fact madison.
Prove it wrong and win your Nobel prize
Yes Very Very narrow, focused, precise. They are just observing and measuring and cataloging smaller, larger more data more analysis. What are you looking at, what are you observing?
Cells could not have formed by chance.
Perhaps the planet is just an electron floating around the nucleus, the sun. With the human body and the universe being composed of 98% space, perhaps its a mirror of sorts. It is endless both within and without you. Have we actually even seen greatness? What is greatness to you? What is most important?
I think the electron would have to be an entire other universe for your concept to make sense because we know that protons are not stars, and we also know alot about smaller scales the problem starts around the Plank scale and quantum mechanics breaks down because of infinity/0. So your Universe may be in there.
Yes you are correct we are obviously in something much much greater than our imagination can comprehend and wether it is alive or inanimate we will never know.
If you ever actually explored this idea further you’d learn that quantum physics is so vastly different from the physics of the cosmos that this is very likely not the case..
Why do space ships look like male sex organ, and the planets are like woman’s eggs, it’s fly & lands on the egg and exit many white space suits get out on eggs a fertilise it
@@NobleVagabond2552 no one knows as far as we know the Plank space is the smallest, according to quantum mechanics. After that infinity/0 is anyone's guess, You know we are only postulateing here not really into rebuttals or debates on Valence Shell electron pair repulsion theory.
so much pseudoscientific handwaving packed into one vindeo. Wow!
You're quite uncomfortable with facts aren't you?
Prove it wrong and win your Nobel prize. Or keep trolling on CZcams, no one cares
Basic biology is easy to understand when you stop being ignorant. You don’t have to be afraid of learning