Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test Audiobook Libro.fm

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Longlisted for the 2023 PEN/EO Wilson Literary Science Writing Award

A lively exploration of animal behavior in all its glorious complexity whether in tiny wasps lumbering elephants or ourselves

For centuries people have been returning to the same tired natureversusnurture debate trying to determine what we learn and what we inherit In Dancing Cockatoos and the Dead Man Test biologist Marlene Zuk goes beyond the binary and instead focuses on interaction or the way that genes and environment work together Driving her investigation is a simple but essential question How does behavior evolve