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Evolution

New information, fossils, "just a theory."

113streams where it came up 3+ times
219streams in the dataset
1ranked questions
Mar 28, 2026busiest night (Mar 28, 2026, 266 mentions)
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Evolution mentions across 219 streams

Figure A. One column per stream in date order, Sep 3, 2025 to Sep 27, 2026. Shade is keyword mentions on a log scale, scaled to this topic's busiest night. Streams under 3 mentions stay blank.

Questions in this hub

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Can mutations add new information?

20 streams where it came up

Yes. One E. coli population evolved the ability to use citrate, which its ancestors could not do, after about 31,500 generations.

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Receipt

0k10k20k30k12 populations founded, 1988Potentiating mutation by ~20kCitrate use evolves ~31.5kGenerations

Redrawn from published values.

Blount ZD, Borland CZ, Lenski RE. Historical contingency and the evolution of a key innovation in an experimental population of Escherichia coli. PNAS. 2008;105(23):7899-906. doi:10.1073/pnas.0803151105

Watch me cite it on stream at 41:42

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Moments on stream: "evolution"

Vaccine Debates, Trump and Science, the Origin of Life | September 27, 2026
Sep 27, 2026

2:34:49...t doing whatever they did. So they made even more of themselves. What we're describing is evolution by natural selection, Darwin's famous idea. And for life to move forward, it must have been there from the beginning. Life is a product of e...

FDA Pick, RFK Jr.'s $4M, Is AI Plagiarism?, Alaska Trawling | September 25, 2026
Sep 25, 2026

2:44:29Maybe that evolution video. Or... Let's see what we have in the pipeline. I whipped my hair back and forth. really 16 credited writers yeah dude the ghost writing thing in music you know that's like

Vaccine Freedom and the Hidden Rule of Evolution | September 23, 2026
Sep 23, 2026

18:53...If not, I have some interesting interesting biology videos that we could watch and about evolution seems to be the hot topic everyone wants to be wants me to to talk about right now is evolution so we shall continually continually feed tha...

Vaccines, Guns, a Climate Troll, and Mark Rober's Casino | September 22, 2026
Sep 22, 2026

7:13...oing uh a couple of my stuff's like hitting the algorithm which is kind of cool um for my evolution debate stuff so that's good um and so it's like finally that's that's nice

Self-Assembling Materials, Sea Cucumbers & Cunk | September 21, 2026
Sep 21, 2026

37:49break and they basically looked at the rate of evolution in inside of a lab and then in natural populations and then saw kind of like based on that how long had the viruses actually been inside the lab before they outbroke so that was the k...

Measles Deaths, the NSF Memo, Creatine, and Mussels That Fish | September 18, 2026
Sep 18, 2026

2:21:45...t are inevitably going to eat it because you're not spending any resources on defense. So evolutionarily, it does make a lot of sense, actually. Task perfectly suitable fo

Figure B. Transcript passages that mention "evolution" the most, one per video, from 1388 matching passages. Each opens YouTube at that second.