Episode 117 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on work around plant intelligence and the amazing – though often oversold – things plants do.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Plants Part 1

00:14:26 Part 2

00:22:48 Part 3

Episode 116 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of Marchetti’s constant of human commuting, as well as why we humans shake hands and how other species do the same.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Marchetti’s Constant and Commuting)

00:15:06 Question 2 (Handshakes)

Episode 115 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why some people eat more and others eat less under stress, and groundbreaking work that has shown the complex language skills of birds.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Stress and Eating)

00:20:10 Question 2 (Birds and Language)

Episode 114 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode focuses on the difference between Bipolar I and II, and the chimp civil war that has recently made Scientific headlines. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:37 Question 1 (Bipolar II)

00:08:47 Question 2 (Chimp Civil War)

Episode 113 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include Acquired Savant Syndrome, how humans evolved to be dominant as generalists, and why organisms began to do sexual reproduction.

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00:00 Intro

00:01:07 Question 1 (Acquired Savant Syndrome)

00:12:51 Question 2 (Human dominance)

00:27:36 Question 3 (Sexual reproduction)

Episode 112 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode discusses why women perceive more colors than men, the impact of long-term COVID on fetuses, and our closest relatives’ interest in crystals.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Gendered color perception)

00:09:56 Question 2 (COVID fetuses)

00:20:43 Question 3 (Chimps and crystals)

Episode 111 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why we developed handedness and if we’re the only species, what work on “SuperAgers” can teach us about cognitive longevity, and why we find flatulence so darn funny.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:34 Question 1 (Handedness)

00:16:20 Question 2 (SuperAgers)

00:31:40 Question 3 (Why farts are funny)

Episode 110 of Father-Offspring Interviews. This episode includes discussion of whether parenting styles can influence sexual orientation, what sleepwalking is and how other animals “sleepwalk,” and the many other species that undergo sex changes. 

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Parenting and Sexual orientation)

00:05:23 Question 2 (Sleepwalking and other animals)

00:19:20 Question 3 (Sex Changing Species)

Episode 109 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include the work of the late Robert Trivers, the intrusive thoughts that are the Call of the Void, and when animals adopt their own and other species.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:14 Question 1 (Robert Trivers)

00:23:57 Question 2 (Call of the Void)

00:35:58 Question 3 (When Animals Adopt)

Episode 108 of Father-Offspring Interviews. Topics in this episode include why the Bubonic (Black) Plague went away, how hurricanes induce labor, and when the prefrontal cortex is too effective.

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00:00 Intro

00:00:13 Question 1 (How the Black Plague disappeared)

00:16:00 Question 2 (Hurricanes and births)

00:24:04 Question 3 (Overactive PFC’s)