Ep 21: Replaying the MP3 of Life
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Adapted Radiation Is Better Than Adaptive Radiation
Scientists are using beetles as a model to understand social and symbolic evolution molecular, cellular and neuropological levels. They're transforming them into laboratory models with no geneti molecular tools. What we want to be able to do is understand what happens in their brains at the level of neural circuits when they make this transition from free living to symbolic. These beatles have been able to kind of make this transition so many times er a great modto understand how this might happen.
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