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01 / evaluation
“Because life history theory tells you that there’s no upside to delaying reproduction if all things are equal, but they must be getting better at something.”
02 / evaluation
“Of course, maybe one of the reasons why flying squirrels haven’t taken over the world is because they never got to powered flight like birds did, which obviously is going a lot further.”
03 / evaluation
“What that means is that it’s often more helpful or more useful for individuals to delay dispersal until their reproductive age.”
04 / evaluation
“I think that there are some downsides, in particular being sites of potential infection for diseases that are moving through.”
05 / evaluation
“I think that’s because humans are intelligent, and we have time on our hands and excess cognition and curiosity to burn, and that leads us to become fascinated by nature.”
06 / evaluation
“For example, sometimes hummingbirds will defend a floral resource, and then when it gets big enough, they’ll just give it up because there’s no reason to do it anymore.”
07 / evaluation
“The scale of cat death — I don’t know the numbers, but way more birds are killed by cats than are killed by all the wind power in America.”