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Podcast: Book Friends Forever
Episode: Why Rats Laugh and Jellyfish Sleep By David Stipp, Read By Rick Adamson
Description: For fans of accessible and fun popular science comes an exploration of evolution’s quirkiest puzzles and most enduring mysteries.
Why do cats live longer than dogs? Why do bees have yellow stripes? Why can we smell a skunk from a mile away? Such questions can be seen as puzzles about creatures' evolved traits. Besides triggering our curiosity, they focus our attention on beguiling designs that have been millions of years in the making. Indeed, looking at the living world through a Darwinian lens reveals its colossal depth in a way that's all too easy to miss in the age of...