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Nature vs Nurture? w/ Marlene Zuk

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Evolutionary Holdovers

I really like thinking about evolutionary holdovers, these these things like the pseudo bi so you've lost the ability to do this thing. I'll give you an example of one of my favorite ones. There's a these sea turtles that go all the way from the the west coast of south africa to the east coast of south america just to lay their eggs in and just see. That behaviour adapted during pangea. We i mag re light's riddled with it. It's absolutely and i think that so what you're saying illustrates a principle about evolution which is called 'evolution as a tinkerer' And people need to think about that more than they sometimes do.

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