Superpowers make great fiction, but evolution doesn’t work that way. We explore why mutations can’t give us instant abilities—and what real science could create instead.

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The Myth of Mutation Why Superpowers Don’t Evolve (and What Might)

Written, Produced & Narrated by: Isaac Arthur

Editors: Lukas Konecny

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Music by Epidemic Sound: http://nebula.tv/epidemic

Chapters

0:00 Intro

3:05 How Stars Work: A Brief Guide

9:44 The Main Sequence Stars, A Through M

11:12 A-Type Stars

12:00 F-Type Stars

13:00 G-Type Stars

14:12 K-Type Stars

15:06 M-Type Stars

16:55 Brown Dwarfs

18:15 Red Giants

21:00 Dead Stars

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