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Oliver Conway

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

I mean, it was designed to facilitate reading on modern computer screens, and it was chosen to replace Times New Roman, the typeface that Rubio wants to go back to now, in 2007.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Calibri was designed to work well in tiny sizes and on coarse office screens, which it still does, much better than Times New Roman.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

It's especially meant for reading long pieces of text on screen, so the rhythm is great.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

And when you see it in big sizes, it's a friendly typeface.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

It has a warmth, maybe even a little bit humanistic, even though it's a sensory font.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Yes, because one of the quotes from Marco Rubio's instruction to diplomats around the world was, he said they were going to go back to Times New Roman to restore decorum to the department's written products.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Still, SensRef works better in small sizes on core screens.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

I'm just on the question of screens.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Yeah, just briefly and finally, are you confident that Calibri will survive this outrage?

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Absolutely, yeah.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Typeface designer Lucas de Groot.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Are you more like a meerkat, gorilla, or maybe a Californian mouse?

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Well, all those animals feature in a new Monogamy League table which assesses how committed they and we are to pairing up.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

Humans are apparently 66% monogamous, far above chimpanzees and gorillas, and similar to meerkats and beavers.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

We heard more from lead author and anthropologist Mark Dybul.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

We know, of course, that humans vary cross-culturally and within cultures in our marriage practices, mating behaviour.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

But from an evolutionary point of view, there's value in stepping back and considering our species as a whole and characterising our mating system, as it were, in general mammalian context.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

So how do we compare to other species?

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

That's partly because we're such a cooperative species and we often see the evolution of highly cooperative animal societies follow on from the evolution of monogamous mating.

Global News Podcast
Cancer-causing gene found in donor sperm across Europe

So we have these theoretical debates about how monogamous humans are today and were in human evolutionary history.