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#598: Primatologist Isabel Behncke on Play, Sexual Selection, and Lessons from Following Bonobos for 3,000 Kilometers in the Jungles of Congo

The Tim Ferriss Show

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Darwin and von Humboldt - The Origins of Evolution

Erasmus darwin had in chariot an emblem called econcia obnia. In latin, life comes from the sea. The point what i'm trying to make here is that darwin himself had ancestors, both intellectual ancestors, but also family ancestors that were thinking about evolution. Often, you know, ideas are in environment. So that's the family side darwin. Equally, or if not more important, for darwin, was the influence of alexander von humboldt. Von humboldt is a prussian aristocrat who was born the same year than napoleon, i think, 17 69. And he died on 18 59

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