Can we have your liver? The 286th Evolutionary Lens with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying
July 21, 2025
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as posted by the channelToday we discuss organ donation, and parenting in the animal world. Organ donation: how can we modify incentives so that people who need organs have a good chance of getting them, but people with healthy organs are never sent to an early death because their organs are valuable? Then: a natural history primer on parental care and feeding ecology of some local mammals and birds. What can be learned from observing the successful parenting of both barn swallows and red foxes?
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NYT 2025Push for more organ transplants puts donors at risk
NYT 2003Bret letter to the editor on organ donation and incentives
Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life on organ transplants
Cornell on barn swallows
Avian Architecture(commission earned)
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