RE: "Transitional color" Between Blue and Green?

Because I like to nitpick, I thought the demonstration would benefit from a few changes. Several trips to the kitchen sink and two quite stained hands later, this happened.

How the heck do you get food coloring off your hands, anyways? The stuff is persistent!

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[EdwardHowton]

Just as a note to future viewers, I've blocked a user by the name of MrDathon1577 and removed his comments because they were pretty much irrelevant. He continually asked questions that this very video answered, and then he went off on insane tangents about how species should evolve to be unable to mate within their own species (which makes no sense) and about how humans have always looked like humans today, which is an outright lie.

An utter waste of space, so I cleared the clutter.

[EdwardHowton]

@EdwardHowton I should add that there was a lot more to it, ranging from a copy/paste from wikipedia's page on Speciation (that ignored all the actual useful information) to his claim that he looked at 5000 year old humans and decided that there was no difference, and many more tangential nothings I won't go into. Well, with the exception of "cats don't morph into dogs" and a mention of how the crocoduck can't exist.

I think deleting it all was the right choice.

[leporidus]

Another detail worth pointing out that evolution deniers usually »get wrong«, is the fact that almost every mutation is neither beneficial nor detrimental to the specimen, it neutral to the chance of surviving. But together with later mutations, it just might have been the one contributing significantly to »green-ness«.

[EdwardHowton]

Thanks for the input!

It's true, of course. The vast majority of mutations don't actually do anything noticeable. But everything stacks up together, and it's possible that one small useless change could eventually lead to a mutation that is quite beneficial, or quite harmful. I'm sure species have died out in evolutionary bottlenecks because it's not a forwards-thinking system.

Evolution is simple to describe but so very complex to explain, I can't do it justice without a degree and a labcoat.

[Noctokage]

True, that...

[EdwardHowton]

There are more colors in Heaven and Earth than exist in your dyes of cookistry.

That would be pretty neat, but the space it would require boggles the mind. Would make for one heck of a class project, if kids could use the gymnasium.

[Noctokage]

It actually made me think, it might be fun to do some kind of project with little clear tupperware or something to create an evolutionary tree of sorts for colored water.

[EdwardHowton]

Well, like I say, I like to nitpick, and this seemed like a fun video to make anyways. I got to play with food coloring! Yaaay! Stuff does -not- come off, by the way.

RabidApe's vid was pretty good, but I thought I could go into detail about some things a bit better, and my comparison between colors touches on the points he was making. Think of it as an extension of his vid.

Glad you like it, though!

[Noctokage]

I don't really think RabidApe's video needed expanded upon, I liked how the ambiguity sparked such idiotic comments, but this is a good video nonetheless, good job. :D

[RabidApe]

Tiktaalik ftw!