Evo-Devo (Despacito Biology Parody) | A Capella Science

Why HN readers recommended it

HN recommends it as an entertaining four-minute introduction to evo-devo that works even for people who dislike the original song.

This is a summary from the source dataset, not an endorsement by Hacker News or the video creator.

Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

acapellascience

Topic

evolutionary developmental biology

Format

music

Level

intro

HN recommenders in dataset

6

HN mentions in dataset

11

Recommendation years in dataset

2017–2026

These counts and years describe the included Hacker News records; they are not YouTube views or the video’s publication date.

From the original HN conversations

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• It is, but it is increasing the branching factor by much more than finding all the "good" melodies in 400 years. Here's a good example of music that stands on it own right despite using the melody of despacito: [VIDEO] - I'm pretty sure that …

• I'll take a shot at trying to explain that to the best of my ability. I'm starting from the point where we have organisms and dna, since nobody knows how exactly abiogenesis happened yet. First, two general points. The most important thing to keep in …

• > Producing a whole new limb or whatever is way more complicated that we'd like it to be. It isn't that much more complicated, though. Because as it turns out, you don't always have to code for that limb from scratch. You just have to …