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Ep 149: Headphone Dents: What it Takes to Reshape a Skull
Move Your DNA with Katy Bowman
The Importance of Purpose in Natural Selection
People think natural selection is purposeful, but it's not. It's just a sampling error if you're a mathematician. People with heritable traits that favor survival and reproduction will tend to leave more offspring than others without those traits. And then over time, what happens is you have entire populations that share a particular trait because that trait works well in that environment. But it's always relative for an environment. That was way clearer than my definition. I like both. There's just different types of, there's people listening with different backgrounds. Yeah.
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