194 - Simon Conway Morris on Convergent Evolution & Creative Mass Extinctions
Humans On The Loop: Wisdom for an Age of Magical Technologies
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Are You Taking Advantage of Heterogeneous Landscape?
i feel like i the question i asked you a moment ago was just unbelievably baroque so let's follow the trend line you called for evolutionary systems and simplify this somewhat and see if it does better pjd you ask about the mammals paradoxically was their small size actually an escape clause and their ultimate key to future success. Your footnote here cites a paper by hose bonaparte who i got to give a shout out to as the discoverer of my favorite dinosaur carnitaurus but yeah this is I'm curious even though you kind of already said you're dodging the the question what is it about size here that you think matters in terms of understanding the characteristics of an organism and pass
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