5 Times Evolution Did Its Best

Usually when you think of evolution or natural selection, you think of survival of the fittest. But sometimes, the resulting traits of evolution aren’t the most efficient solutions to the problems at hand. With the bar set to “good enough,” here are some features that arose from evolution which get the job done in strange or roundabout ways. Hosted by: Rose Bear Don't Walk. SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It's called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon:   / scishow   ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Silas Emrys, Charles Copley, Jb Taishoff, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, LehelKovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Ash, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, KatieMarie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook:   / scishow   Twitter:   / scishow   Tumblr:   / scishow   Instagram:   / thescishow   ---------- Sources: Photosynthesis http://doi.org/10.2210/rcsb_pdb/mom_2... http://doi.org/10.1199/tab.0130 https://doi.org/10.1042/bss0610001 http://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2005.1737 https://www.khanacademy.org/science/b... https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/ern081 https://doi.org/10.1093/jexbot/53.369... https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-8137.2... https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2013.04... https://doi.org/10.1093/jxb/erw156 Marsupials http://www.academia.edu/download/4584... https://books.google.com/books?hl=en&... https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2... https://www.researchgate.net/publicat... The RLN https://www.science.org.au/curious/ea... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NB... https://doi.org/10.4202/app.2011.0019 https://arxiv.org/pdf/1901.01560.pdf Eyes https://evolution.berkeley.edu/evolib... https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/evolution/ch... https://dx.doi.org/10.1038%2Fnrn2283 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12052-008-00... https://doi.org/10.1038/eye.2017.226 Bipedalism https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2013/... https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics40... https://doi.org/10.1038/46965 https://journals.co.za/doi/10.10520/A... https://doi.org/10.1002/ajpa.10058 https://jaoa.org/aoa/content_public/j... Image Sources: https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hum... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/sma... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/clo... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/rip... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/a-m... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/kan... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/koa... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pre... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/wes... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/mor... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/hum... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ev... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/com... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/pha... https://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/run... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... https://www.istockphoto.com/photo/3d-... #SciShow