Evolution Ep4: The Evolutionary Arms Race (6/6)

Survival of the fittest: Is it raw competition, a level of cooperation indispensable to life, or both? Explore our own spiraling arms race with microorganisms -- the only real threat to our existence -- and trace the alarming spread of resistance among pathogens that cause disease.

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Howto & Style

Tags:

• Evolution
• Bacteria
• Virus
• Antibiotics
• Drug
• Resistance
• Pathogens
• Natural
• Selection

[sighuponsigh]

Such an awesome series. Wish, like the others, that it had more views, but oh well. : /

[Phygos2008]

Ourt immunsystem needs thee attacks from hostile organisms. if we have a lack of theese attacks, it attacks our own cells

[Golkarian]

@RPFS2008 who's Fred?

[scaremengaviation]

At 4:30 I though he would say "that created this st[upid society]"!

[lastcatamount]

Strengthening of the immune system is the reason women defecate when giving birth. Bet you'll never read that on your Snapple Cap!

[mystisme]

oups i comment to fast in the previous video it say exactly what i was worry about well all it say to me we converge in thinking hihihi

[SpongiformSpongee]

Support your local PBS station.

[sensei011]

George Carlin once said "..it needs germs to practice on!" talking about the immune system.

"My immune system is equipped with the biological equivalent of fully automatic assault rifles with laser scopes, and they've recently acquired anti-personell mines and fragmentation grenades and when they see germs they don't fuck around. And do you know why? IT GETS A LOT OF PRACTICE."

Well put. :)

[RPFS2008]

yea, this has a few thousand views, yet that stupid kid, Fred, has millions upon millions.

Pretty sad.

[subach]

Bah symbiosis, let's just replace all the microrganisms that are useful to us with nanobots. We won't need to worry about restistant strains, cause there's no resistance to nanabots which attack the DNA of harmful bacteria.

[deliwrek]

That's unfortunate. Discovery channel (and Ren & Stimpy) raised me! And when the Science Channel came out, gah! Even when I was an adolescent stoner, at least I'd get high and watch the science channel. It's comforting to know that these sort of programs are still being broadcast.