The Founder Effect | Trapped in a Meeting #17

4,619 views · Published 2 September 2013 · 2:44 · Indexed 25 October 2026

Channel: Stuff You Should Know · 2013 · Science & Technology

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A hurricane wiped all of the lizard population off a Caribbean island in 2004, leaving biologists with a rare opportunity to observe the founder effect, a theory of natural selection that takes place when a population bottlenecks. Join Josh and Chuck as they kill some time talking about it during their never-ending meeting.

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