Which Came First - Flowers or Bees?

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Viewers like you help make PBS (Thank you 😃) . Support your local PBS Member Station here: https://to.pbs.org/PBSDSDonate Stop and smell the flowers… and watch this video Subscribe: http://bit.ly/iotbs_sub Twitter: @jtotheizzoe @okaytobesmart ↓ More info and sources below ↓ Bees and flowers have an amazingly close relationship. Flowers need bees in order to reproduce, and bees need flowers to feed their colonies. Take away one, and the other would disappear too. It begs the question: When it comes to evolution, which came first, the bees or the flowers? Book recommendation: "A Sting in the Tale" by Dave Goulson, a great scientific and cultural history of bees http://amzn.to/1BcytS5 Special thanks to the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center in Austin, TX for letting us hang out with their bees and flowers! https://www.wildflower.org/ More info/sources: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-beguiling-history-of-bees-excerpt/ http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/38733/title/On-The-Origin-of-Flowers/ http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141017-how-flowers-conquered-the-world http://science.nationalgeographic.com/science/prehistoric-world/big-bloom/ Have an idea for an episode or an amazing science question you want answered? Leave a comment or check us out at the links below! Follow on Twitter: http://twitter.com/okaytobesmart http://twitter.com/jtotheizzoe Follow on Tumblr: http://www.itsokaytobesmart.com Follow on Instagram: http://instag

Published 2015-06-15 · Watch on YouTube ↗
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