Noam Hassenfeld
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4,749 appearances
107 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 4d ago
Noam Hassenfeld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Unlike other non-mammals that are smart, like octopuses, birds have long lives.
So this is really huge, because octopuses,
They have these really short lifespans.
Their parents die when they give birth.
So octopuses are basically born orphans.
But birds live a pretty long time, like long enough to have overlapping generations, like to have grandparents.
Yeah, I think this is stuff that...
in a vacuum we think might lead to culture.
They have all the things.
They have the brains, the communication, the family structures, the lifespans, but they don't have what we have.
They don't have art and philosophy and the Sopranos.
They don't tweet?
They don't.
Well, they do tweet.
But he answers this by looking at why certain traits develop to begin with.
So if you think about evolution, right, it's not something that looks ahead and goes, this species needs this type of fix to get better.
Over time, certain traits that help animals survive and have babies tend to spread.
And when species are under a lot of pressure from their environment, if there are predators or if it's cold or if there's not a lot of food available,
Evolution ends up feeling like some type of gravitational pull.
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