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#178: Cheating as National Pastime (Bret Weinstein & Heather Heying DarkHorse Livestream)

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Tree Shrew Laboratories: A Novel Nitrogen Sequestration Strategy in a Tropical Pitcher Plant

The tree shrew is probably an insectivore at the dietary level. It was eating insects and the the napenthes the pitcher plants that facilitated rather than thwarted this behavior came out ahead. The plant would get nitrogen more than it lost to the insects that were taken. And by putting the reward in an increased level at a place that orientes the shrew it all works out.

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