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Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
Using robots to study evolution, the last installment of our series of books on a future to look forward to, and did reintroducing wolves really restore an ecosystem?
First up this week, a new study of an iconic ecosystem doesn’t support the “landscape of fear” concept. This is the idea that bringing back apex predators has a huge impact on the behavior of their prey, eventually altering the rest of the ecosystem. Host Sarah Crespi talks with Contributing Correspondent Virginia Morell about the findings.
Next, using bioinspired robotics to explore deep time. Michael Ishida, a postdoctoral…
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