
The Amazon in us (Ep 83)
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The Dirty Ness Hypothesis
Is wabaki a sort of behaving in those systems like you would see it and a lot of other insects? Yes. And so for lots of organisms, even if they're not social, it's still benefit to the wolbak to do things male feminization, male killing, so on and so forth. So there's a mechanism by which you might have a easier transmission of a group of parasites switching hosts. The more distantly related something is, the harder the jump is. If they're feeding on very closely related things, maybe the probability of that jump of the pathageand into a new house is higher. Let's turn to another topic that you've also written
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