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The Branches of a Tree

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Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes | Video on TED.c. Peter Ward on Earth's mass extinctions. Jonathan Drori: Every pollen grain has a story | Video on TED.co. Luca Turin on the science of scent. Richard Preston on the giant trees. Stefano Mancuso: The roots of plant intelligence. Cary Fowler: One seed at a time, protecting the future of food | Jonathan Drori: Why we're storing billions of seeds | Video on T. Paul Stamets on 6 ways mushrooms can save the world | Video on T. Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new plastic? Bonnie Bassler on how bacteria "talk". Paul Ewald asks, Can we domesticate germs?

Janine Benyus: Biomimicry in action. Michael Pawlyn: Using nature's genius in architecture. Yann Arthus-Bertrand captures fragile Earth in wide-angle | Vide. Jane Poynter: Life in Biosphere 2. Kamal Meattle on how to grow fresh air. Mitchell Joachim: Don't build your home, grow it! | Video on TED. Stewart Brand proclaims 4 environmental 'heresies' | Video on TE. Joshua Klein on the intelligence of crows. Keith Bellows on the camel's hump. Deborah Gordon digs ants. Charles Anderson discovers dragonflies that cross oceans | Video. Robert Full: Learning from the gecko's tail. Beverly + Dereck Joubert: Life lessons from big cats. Mike deGruy: Hooked by an octopus. Dan Barber: How I fell in love with a fish.

Jeremy Jackson: How we wrecked the ocean. John Francis walks the Earth. Peter Tyack: The intriguing sound of marine mammals | Video on T. Brian Skerry reveals ocean's glory -- and horror | Video on TED. David Gallo shows underwater astonishments. Richard Pyle dives the reef's Twilight Zone. Susan Savage-Rumbaugh on apes. Elaine Morgan says we evolved from aquatic apes | Video on TED.c.

Robert Sapolsky: The uniqueness of humans. Wade Davis on the worldwide web of belief and ritual | Video on. Murray Gell-Mann on the ancestor of language. Phil Borges on endangered cultures. Wade Davis on endangered cultures. Louise Leakey digs for humanity's origins. Nina Jablonski breaks the illusion of skin color | Video on TED. Laurie Santos: A monkey economy as irrational as ours.