Unit 5 Overview | Big History Project

“Eating a banana doesn’t make you a cannibal,” is a line from this video that should be enough to make you want to watch it! Unit 5: Life is next in our series of 10 overview videos introducing each unit in the course. The way history connects to science is made even clearer as we see how humanity’s collective learning brought about such achievements as the Human Genome Project, and what our knowledge of DNA means for us.

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