because we have CAT scanned all of these skulls of fossil mammals. We have built digital models of their brains. We can measure the size and the shape of their brains. We can plot it out on the family tree of mammals. And the picture is quite clear that during the first 10 million years or so after the asteroid, the mammal brains actually got smaller relative to their bodies. So to put itvery glibly, mammals were actually getting a bit dumber during the time after the asteroid. Now I know intelligence is a lot more than just brain to body size. But to be very glib about it, mammals
And we might as well start the story at the beginning in the making of us, in our origins and evolution in East Africa. This is our family tree , you can see on the left hand. This is the hominin lineage, the human-like species.
And my brain is very geared towards thinking about relationships between things a lot. So like in a family tree , I don't need to show relationships across two generations because we can deduce those.
It's a descent with modification, as Darwin put it. You can see the family tree of different musical styles. And you can see how two different musical styles come together and breed, as it were, to produce a new style.
And now all they want to do is cast people that are already bankable box office hits. And the family tree I think was the first thing I did.
So I'm very interested actually how knowing and interactivity with Malala changed you. And he took the family tree it had-- and you haven't seen the movie.
So I'm very interested actually how knowing and interactivity with Malala changed you. But on the family tree going back 300 years there are no women.
Williams College, up the road from Lake Geneva in a town called Williams Bay. actually meet the family tree somewhere?
And you repeat this as many times as you can. You build your own family tree and then you climb it as far up as you can go. And then once you build your own family tree it's time to start your own branch.
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions are part of the dinosaur family tree . They evolved from other dinosaurs. They are just a strange type of dinosaur that got small, evolved wings, and developed the ability to fly. And in that way,
Tell me, do you know when too much is too much? I've grabbed the roots of my family tree , held on for dear life for like 24 years. Hands calloused. Every day is a challenge, trying to build a broken home into a palace.
to lyrics of takeout menus. I think "Samuel Cohen's Family Tree " was like-- It was like "Angel's Korean Barbecue." Yeah. And-- Angel's Korean barbecue.
She was apparently given a Chevrolet wagon as her kind of fish listening station. Here's a diagram of the fish family tree .
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. Where we had a fairly impoverished family tree here, to a very species-rich tree.
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. So Lucy's particular place on the family tree is very important in terms of understanding the dynamics of evolutionary change,
SeaBED and ABE and now Sentry are hard at work for the science looking at hydrothermal vents. And the implication of this family tree is there's a kind of autonomous technological progress that moves from manned to remote to unmanned, or autonomous. And that very much represents the point of view that I had and that everyone I worked with had in the '80s
So we've had so many people fall in love, have babies. We could do a whole family tree of all of our restaurants. We could probably start three new restaurants just with the offspring of people.
You build your own family tree and then you climb it as far up as you can go. And then once you build your own family tree it's time to start your own branch. See I think seeing yourself as part of a creative lineage will help you feel less alone when you start making your own work.
Not everybody knows, but I'm on a mission to share. These are a couple of folks for my family tree . Check out this guy with a super ancient face.
And my brain is very geared towards thinking about relationships between things a lot. And I'm going to draw something a bit like the family tree to show those relationships.
But the way that I approached it was I made a family tree at the very beginning of the process.
represents everything that exists it is a master family tree of life on Earth
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. And we see a major bifurcation in the human family tree between our own genus, Homo, which has emphasized brain expansion,
She is known in Ethiopia by her own name. This is kind of my version of the family tree .
So many people have been entertained off the NWA family tree for the last 25 years.
And it's just great to be a part of this family tree .
So I actually was pleased when we did decide the family tree was necessary.
really she wanted to cheack on sort of the whole family tree the different parts of her family and therefore I set
conference room table and it turned out to be a smirnoff family tree going back to the 1700s and he began to tell me the
philologists to date manuscripts and place them at a kind of family tree .' 'So you're hoping that this missing "e" may be our key DNA marker? Was Syracuse every
They're about relationships. It's like the family tree .
And we say that, the family tree , because those branches are into the ground, they're into the roots, and they cannot be undone,
Though it was perhaps true that the farther back one went in Swale's family tree , the more that genealogy became less a science and more an art,
Very simplified, but this covers our family tree for the last four billion years.
This image, which is a family tree of undersea vehicles from Woods Hole, kind of implies by it's sort of Darwinian ascent nature that you
And beginning to use them for other ways of manipulating the world around us. It's interesting looking at this because as we grasp a branch on the human family tree , the roots all lead back to Africa. It's where we had a common ancestor with the African apes.
So I'm very interested actually how knowing and interactivity with Malala changed you. So one of the scenes is when she was born there's a family tree and it's the Yusufzai clan, Pashtun clan.
So I'm very interested actually how knowing and interactivity with Malala changed you. And it goes back 300 years and he unrolls it-- and meticulously handwritten family tree .
And then next to it, I had the family tree so that I knew everybody inside out.
So really, it was practical reasons that the family tree went in.
I'm thinking of the house I was always raised In every family tree some history remains If I am not myself,
I see there's this individual right here named Giovanni Battista Orsatti in my family tree .
But why does every restaurant have to sort of be in that family tree ?
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions feathers and meat eating dinosaurs with feathers. If you map this onto the family tree of dinosaurs, really the only conclusion is that feathers must go deep into dinosaur history. Probably
The glaciers grew into ice sheets. And that helped drive the temperature of the entire world to be much cooler. Now, this was a long-term trend then that continued to happen for many tens of millions They evolved from dinosaurs. They are part of the dinosaur family tree . They have all the classic features of dinosaurs. They are the only dinosaur that has survived all the whims and catastrophes
Part butch memoir, part ekphrastic travel diary, part queer family tree , Raquel's debut essay collection gleans insight from the sediment of land and relationships.
But because of the way that Xiangsheng started, we have this whole master-student family tree going all the way back into the past.
of Africa. So we're not so much a family tree as a dense forest of bushes.
to discover depression, schizophrenia, and suicide leafed throughout my family tree .
Fascinating-- Jim March today, you could look at hundreds of his family tree that are among the absolute leaders around the world