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#174 — Life & Mind

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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Is There a Parasitic Cycle?

Insect wings are moved not by limbs, but by movements of the thorax. Some insects flap their wings up and down with a separate neural command from the central nervous system,. But other insects have a kind of motor, a sort of oscillating motor that does a rhythmic up, down, up, down - just like in birds nests.

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