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This “prey-switching” behavior is common to generalist predators and turns out to be ecologically stabilizing for the whole food web. As generalists turn their attention to different prey species, the species that were getting depleted get a chance to recover, reducing the risk of extinction.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
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Richard Powers • The Overstory: A Novel
Sometimes, a lack of training can produce even more interesting results. I was reminded of this recently after hearing a talk by Charles Mann, author of The Wizard and the Prophet. He told the story of Norman Borlaug, an agronomist who developed disease-resistant wheat varieties that are estimated to have prevented over half a billion deaths
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Robert Sapolsky: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst
youtube.comThe communality of the anatomy of brain structure explains a great deal about the shared response of many species to a rise in core temperature, but the effort to move toward a warmer location as a response to infection seems to be so universal that it becomes attractive to look for its origins beyond the vertebrates. After all, insects also
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As recipients of US foreign aid, it was in their best interest to appear to be supporting the US in its war effort.
Jessica C. Flack • Worlds Hidden in Plain Sight: The Evolving Idea of Complexity at the Santa Fe Institute, 1984–2019 (Compass)
