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SCOUT· 64%1h 18m·2022-05-02·Science195 | Richard Dawkins on Flight and Other Evolutionary Achievements
Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas · 195
Evolution has equipped species with a variety of ways to travel through the air — flapping, gliding, floating, not to mention jumping really high. But it hasn't invented jet engines. What are the different ways that heavier-than-air objects might be made to fly, and why does natural selection produce some of them but…
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