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Currently Playing: Feedback loops: How nature gets its rhythms - Anje-Margriet Neutel

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/feedback-loops-how-nature-gets-its-rhythms-anje-margriet-neutel While feedback loops are a bummer at band practice, they are essential in nature. What does nature’s feedback look like, and how does it build the resilience of our world? Anje-Margriet Neutel describes some common positive and negative feedback loops, examining how an ecosystem’s many loops come together to make its ‘trademark sound.’ Lesson by Anje-Margriet Neutel, animation by Brad Purnell.