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Published · transcript-backedRichard Prum: evaluation
30 Jun 2021 Conversations with Tyler Richard Prum on Birds, Beauty, and Finding Your Own Way
“I think that there are some downsides, in particular being sites of potential infection for diseases that are moving through.”
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- Richard Prum
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- evaluation
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- 30 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…Should we use bird feeders in our backyards? I think so. I love my bird feeders. I really enjoy them. I think that there are some downsides, in particular being sites of potential infection for diseases that are moving through. They’re the opposite of social distancing. They’re social concentrating. They can be centers for conjunctivitis-like illnesses in finches recently in the United States, et cetera. Do they just worsen the Malthusian equilibrium? How well does the Malthusian subsistence theory predict bird populations? Are birds at the margin of subsistence, first of all?…
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