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27: Daniel Schmachtenberger - On Avoiding Apocalypses

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Orcas Are Not the Apex Preditor of the Seas

Nobody has seen a ten thousandfold increase in orca efficiency as a preditor. So it may bea we couldn't, because as they start eating too many of the fish, they know they can't keep breeding. We don't know of any other species that has language ability to coordinate the way we do. Although certain social species, from african dogs to orchids, are pretty impressive in their ability to coordinate in one form or another.

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