6 Species Unlike Anything Else | Evolutionary Loners

You can find the poster featured in this episode in the SciShow store on DFTBA: https://store.dftba.com/collections/scishow/products/scishow-tree-of-life-poster What happens when a species is the only of its kind? This phenomenon is called a monospecific taxon. Studying these special species can help us better understand not just those sparse groups, but all life on this planet! Join Olivia Gordon for this fun new episode of SciShow! SciShow has a spinoff podcast! It s called SciShow Tangents. Check it out at http://www.scishowtangents.org ---------- Support SciShow by becoming a patron on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/scishow ---------- Huge thanks go to the following Patreon supporters for helping us keep SciShow free for everyone forever: Bd_Tmprd, Jeffrey Mckishen, James Knight, Christoph Schwanke, Jacob, Matt Curls, Sam Buck, Christopher R Boucher, Eric Jensen, Lehel Kovacs, Adam Brainard, Greg, Sam Lutfi, Piya Shedden, Katie Marie Magnone, Scott Satovsky Jr, Charles Southerland, Charles george, Alex Hackman, Chris Peters, Kevin Bealer ---------- Looking for SciShow elsewhere on the internet? Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/scishow Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/scishow Tumblr: http://scishow.tumblr.com Instagram: http://instagram.com/thescishow ---------- Sources: Homo sapiens https://doi.org/10.1038/nature13621 https://doi.org/10.1002/ece3.4630 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1558-5646.2012.01660.x https://humanorigins.si.edu/human-characteristics/brains https://theconversation.com/were-other-humans-the-first-victims-of-the-sixth-mass-extinction-126638 Welwitschia mirabilis https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27064484/ https://doi.org/10.1086/374189 https://doi.org/10.1002/j.1537-2197.1977.tb11936.x https://doi.org/10.5642/aliso.20123001.05 https://doi.org/10.1002/eco.2039 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1026512608982 https://doi.org/10.3732/ajb.92.8.1294 https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-012088457-5/50026-5 https://doi.org/10.1093/aob/mcl078 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1365-3040.2006.01625.x https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2009/12/how-angiosperms-took-over-world Amborella trichopoda https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1241089 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26290578/ https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1246275 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.1248709 Sphenodon punctatus https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cub.2012.10.049 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-009-9952-7 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/15751188/ https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.1997.9522875 https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/24132307/ Orycteropus afer https://doi.org/10.1038/npg.els.0001578 https://www.elibrary.ru/item.asp?id=29792000 Limnognathia maerski https://doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199606023.001.0001 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1096-0031.2004.00004.x https://doi.org/10.1002/1097-4687(200010)246:1%3C1::AID-JMOR1%3E3.0.CO;2-D Ginkgo biloba https://doi.org/10.5558/tfc68612-5 https://doi.org/10.1663/0006-8101(2007)73[267:TPOSRI]2.0.CO;2 https://doi.org/10.1186/s13742-016-0154-1 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-37045-8_3 https://e360.yale.edu/features/peter_crane_history_of_ginkgo_earths_oldest_tree Images: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Neanderthal_child.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:%D0%9A%D0%B0%D0%BC%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%BD%D1%8B%D0%B9_%D0%B2%D0%B5%D0%BA_(1).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welwitschia_mirabilis(2).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welwitschia_at_Huntington_Library,_Art_Collections_and_Botanical_Gardens.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welwitschia_mirabilis0425.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Welwitschia_mirabilis_(female).jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Amborella_trichopoda_1.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amborella_trichopoda_6.jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Amborella_trichopoda_(3173820625).jpg https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SphenodonSkull.jpg https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Limnognathia_wikipedia.jpg