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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
“What that means is that it’s often more helpful or more useful for individuals to delay dispersal until their reproductive age.”
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- Richard Prum
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- 30 Jun 2021
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…How does the equilibrium work there? Rainfall is unpredictable, and then what happens? It’s all for the equilibrium, so to speak. Yes, sure. Rainfall is unpredictable, and also, the other combination is the habitat is saturated. There aren’t a lot of places to go. What that means is that it’s often more helpful or more useful for individuals to delay dispersal until their reproductive age. Then they’re hanging out, and then, of course, they do work. How they have a benefit is, it could be both helping their relatives — kin selection — or they could be gaining experience, direct benefits, like learning how to raise a family before they get a chance to do their own. Is it the case that birds are more modular in construction than mammals? For instance, they don’t seem to use their wings and legs so much in concert, the way mammals might. Or is that not true?…
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