Sean Carroll
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On fish (and their similarities to us).
We so often denigrate the capacities of presumed others. It’s much harder to exploit those whom you know feel.
animal cognition, animal learning, animal models of human psychiatric disorders, Are We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are, brain science, Descartes was wrong, differences between life in water and on land, dogs, fish, fish feel pain, Frans de Waal, Jonathan Balcombe, leopard gecko, mistreatment of animals, neural plasticity, Project Prakash, racism, Sean Carroll, The Big Picture, the evolution of intelligence, the suffering of others, What a Fish Knows
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On deer, wolves, and Sean Carroll’s ‘The Serengeti Rules.’
Monoculture — whether it’s a body churning out cancer cells, an environment churning out deer, or a world churning out Starbucks — is an illness.
apex predators, Beyond Words, Bloomington, Carl Safina, climate change, college kids need more fear, deer, ecological diversity, elk, environmentalism, gardening, gas tax, Hope Jahren, keystone species, Lab Girl, overbreeding, overpopulation, planting trees, population regulation, predation, Robert Paine, Sean Carroll, starfish, starvation, The Serengeti Rules, we need wilderness, wolves, Yellowstone
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