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RE: Nocturnal encounters: Aardwolves of the Kalahari

in #biology7 years ago

Oh please do - I've loved reading about these arms races since Richard Dawkins started talking about them in The Selfish Gene.

This summer I was moving a stone wall and I uncovered some spiders that were the most horrifying things I'd seen. But I looked them up and discovered that they subsist entirely on those roly-poly pill bugs that eat dead wood.

Imagine if we'd evolved to eat just one food. In a few thousand years our descendants might live exclusively on high-fructose corn syrup.