Noam Hassenfeld
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4,749 appearances
107 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 5d ago
Noam Hassenfeld’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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You just fly up.
It's not a perfect solution, but it is like, as far as solutions go, it is a very, very good solution.
And when you think about how animals' lives are just basically all about finding food and running away from predators, if you have the ability to fly, it's like you are golden, right?
Yeah.
So his idea that he puts forward in this article is that flight might have solved so many of the problems that birds were facing that culture never even was a possibility, right?
They were almost gravitationally pulled down this different evolutionary path.
Because culture is, like, very hard.
it is something that requires brain size, you know, ability to manipulate the environment, all that, and lots of environmental pressure.
Right.
And what I think he's saying is that birds had the former, you know, they had the raw materials, the brain size, the communication, and they didn't have the latter.
They didn't have the same type of vulnerability that necessitated this type of adaptation.
Yeah, a crucible of vulnerability.
That feels like our lives.
We're all living in a crucible of vulnerability and we have culture.
We're still in the crucible.
But we're surviving.
But we're surviving.
That is a very good point.
Like, first of all, you're right.
Crows are super smart.
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