
Lucy Cooke: Where Females Call the Shots
Clear+Vivid with Alan Alda
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The Power of Humor
The idea is that there's a drive to reproduce your own genes, not to allow the genes of another animal in your group. So what Sarah Blaffer-Hurdie discovered was that by the females, by mating, multiply with, with lots of males, that prevented infanticide. And we now know that that this is something that happens in over 50 species lions in particular have been well studied. But possibly, I didn't become a scientist. I became a science communicator. It makes the process of learning a little less tough. Yeah.
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