Published on : 30/05/2022 – 11:56
Why so many paradoxes in nature? The oversized tail of the peacock, parasites that kill their hosts, cell suicide or sex rather than cloning to reproduce? What do these oddities of life reveal?
Weird, did you say weird? We are going to question ourselves on the paradoxes of nature, on all these phenomena, behaviors or characteristics apparently absurd and counterproductive which are nevertheless at work in the living: the size and the colors of the tail of the peacock, penalizing for its survival, the fact that our cells turn against us causing cancer, or even sexuality as the main mode of reproduction knowing that cloning is so much more effective… Why so many paradoxes in nature?
With the evolutionary biology researcher Frederic Thomas for his work The paradoxes of nature, for Humensciences.