
Ep. 864: The Deep State, Flow State and Animal Weapons with Michael Covel on Trend Following Radio
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How to Be an Evolutionary Biologist
I'm an evolutionary biologist what that means is I study natural populations of organisms in their element so in my case it's beetles. For me that means the weapons and I have a soft spot for these sort of extreme structures such as triceratops skulls or T-Rex skulls. We're looking at the forces out there in natural populations that shape the turnover if you will among individuals to cause some individuals to succeed more than others. The phenomena that I study are no different than things that modern people studying evolution in medicine are studying.
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