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Neil Shubin on Tiktaalik, Ballistic Tongues and Evolution

The Joy of x

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The Nature of Invention and Innovation

The insights of the basic biology from flies and worms are really giving us deep insights into our biology. So it's a very powerful window into how we approach science now, right? That we're seeing antecedents of structures that are way more ancient and different than we could have ever expected because similar kinds of genes exist in people and flies. And so another thing that occurs to me is more broadly evolution can refer to all kinds of things besides living things, like languages evolve, cultures evolve, inventions, right? Technology. Exactly.

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