Jul 22, 2009 · The scenes in Japan were filmed by me, Christopher Fryman, cinematographer....the director ...
Duration: 8:39
Posted: Jul 22, 2009

Mar 25, 2007 · Clip from Carl Sagan, Cosmos, Episode 2 on artificial selection and Heike crabs.
Duration: 3:40
Posted: Mar 25, 2007

Jul 22, 2022 · After the battle fisherman would occasionally find crabs with what seemed like that face of a samurai warrior on their carapace, so they instinctively threw ...

Oct 14, 2023 · From the original Cosmos TV series, October 5th 1980. Episode 2: One Voice in the Cosmic ...
Duration: 1:00
Posted: Oct 14, 2023

Carl Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors as an opening into a larger discussion of ...

Feb 18, 2019 · The Japanese samurai face on the Heike crab being designed by natural selection popularized by Carl Sagan's Cosmos isn't true.

In his 1980 science series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, Carl Sagan used heikegani to illustrate artificial selection. British biologist Richard Dawkins ...

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Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of ...

Oct 5, 1980 · Sagan discusses the story of the Heike crab and artificial selection of crabs resembling samurai warriors, as an opening into a larger discussion of evolution.

There are crabs to be found here with curious markings on their backs, patterns and indentations that disturbingly resemble the face of a samurai.