Noam Hassenfeld
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107 recordings
15 series
first heard Feb 2025
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Yeah.
We often tend to think about
evolution as directional.
I shouldn't say we, but maybe there is a common misconception that evolution is directional and it ends with us, you know, like the march.
What is it?
The march of progress?
What's the thing called?
Yeah, the apes walking up to be humans.
But I don't know, I take this as sort of a shift in perspective that there are other ways to be wildly advanced.
You know, just think about sharks, right?
I know you did this episode about when trees first showed up
Hundreds of millions of years ago.
And I remember from that episode that they were like, oh, yeah, when trees showed up, there were sharks and they were kind of the same as they are now.
Like sharks just found this evolutionary niche and it's been great for them.
And evolution isn't about getting to culture or intelligence.
It's about adapting to your environment in a particularly useful way to you.
I mean, we became humans within the last couple hundred thousand years.
It's nothing.
We have been so wildly vulnerable for our evolutionary history.
Yeah.
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