What Darwin Didn't Know: The Modern Science of Evolution

Coevolution: Peace Accords and Arms Races (1x17)

Data di messa in onda: Dic 05, 2018

Darwin saw that natural selection not only leads to species that evolve to their mutual advantage, but to enemies that wage an evolutionary arms race that ends up benefiting both sides. Study coevolutionary cases—from the yucca plant and its symbiotic partner, the yucca moth, to the fastest animal on Earth, the cheetah, and its prey the springbok antelope, which has evolved to be almost as fast.