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Big Picture Science
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Social Media Practices
Dr. Massoudi says cultural evolution moves faster than biological evolution. That can be a good thing and adaptive thing, but it can also have harmful consequences. The pryon disease kuru in Papua New Guinea was caused by widows eating the brains of their deceased husbands. It took decades for society to make connection between this brain-eating practice and the kuru disease.
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