Symphony of Science - The Greatest Show on Earth! A music video about Evolution

mp3: http://bit.ly/xqVD4J - A musical celebration of the wonders of biology, including evolution, natural selection, DNA, and more. Featuring David Attenborough, Richard Dawkins and Bill Nye. "The Greatest Show on Earth" is the 13th video in the Symphony of Science music videos series. Materials used in this video are from:

Richard Dawkins' "There is grandeur in this view of life" speech
BBC Life
BBC Planet Earth
David Attenborough's First Life
Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
Bill Nye Evolution episode

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If you enjoyed the video, consider checking out Dawkins' book of the same name, The Greatest Show On Earth, as well as the other mentioned source materials. Special thanks to everybody who's donated to keep the project alive and to those who helped track down the materials used in this video.

Lyrics:

[David Attenborough]
How could one species turn into another?

[Richard Dawkins]
How is it that we find ourselves surrounded by such complexity, such elegance?

[Bill Nye]
The genes of you and me
They're all made of DNA
We're all made of the same chemicals
DNA - we're all made of DNA

[Attenborough]
Only the fittest survive
And that is the key
Natural Selection
That is the key

[Dawkins]
We are surrounded by endless forms
Most beautiful, most wonderful
Evolution - the greatest show on Earth

There is grandeur in this view of life
Evolution - the greatest show on Earth

[Attenborough]
The history of life can be thought of
As a many branched tree
The five kingdoms of life
were established early on

Bacteria
Protists- amoeba like creatures
Fungi
Plants
And animals

[Dawkins]
We find ourselves perched on one tiny twig
In the midst of a blossoming tree of life

[refrain]

We are surrounded by millions of other species
Walking, flying, burrowing, stalking, chasing, fleeing,
Outpacing

[Attenborough]
Animals strive to reach this one ultimate goal
To ensure the survival of the next generation
This one ultimate goal
To pass on their genes
That is what life is all about

[refrain]

[Dawkins]
As we look back on the history of life
We see a picture of never ending,
ever rejuvinating novelty

[Attenborough]
Those animals may seem to us to be very remote,
strange, even fantastic

But all of us alive today
Owe our very existence to them

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[Doomcharger]

I think my Epic-o-meter just exploded... I'll need to build a new one and make the settings have a better tolerance for awesome. Someone is getting better at making these. Favorited.

[trinikagekavir]

All these 'symphony of science' videos almost make me cry.

Its bizarre and beautiful

[Quintinohthree]

@mysticusa

"how did e. coli learn to order molecules bit by bit to engineer a citrate energy converter system?"

E. Coli never learned anything you numbnut. That isn't how evolution works! You could have known that by now, or if you'd educated yourself with all the completely free material we've provided and what more you could have found easily you wouldn't have said such idiotic crap.

Don't come with an ad hom. card. My argument isn't "you're an idiot, therefore you're wrong" but vice versa.

[PanMakaron]

@XxAlbtraumx Because Catholic Church doesn't find evolution heretic?

[XxAlbtraumx]

I find absurd that there are people who don't belive in the theory of evolution... Hei, wake up! We're in the 2012, not in the Middle Ages!!! Also in Italy, a country which is predominantly Catholic, almost everyone belives in evolution o.o

[314Aurelius]

@ExoXile - guaranteed that 99% of those 67 people are Christians, or theists of another kind.

[ExoXile]

I know a whole lot of people including myself really don't like when this is pointed out--but what the hell, 67> people(that have watched this video.) basically DENY the wonder of the world, and it is really quite saddening.