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#296 - A Natural History of Cephalopods: A Dialogue with Danna Staaf
#296 - A Natural History of Cephalopods: A Dialogue with Danna Staaf
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53 minutes
Released:
Jan 10, 2024
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In this episode, Xavier Bonilla has a dialogue with Danna Staaf about the natural history of cephalopods. They discuss the family of cephalopods and their anatomy along with some of the behaviors, intelligence and consciousness with cephalopods, and what convergent evolution tells us about cephalopods. They talk about how cephalopods are able to live outside water, how they live in all bodies of water, impact of climate change, and many more topics. Danna Staaf holds a PhD in invertebrate biology from Stanford university and is an expert on cephalopods. She continues to do research on cephalopods and has had her writing published in the Journal of Experimental Biology and numerous textbooks. She is the author of, Monarchs of the Sea: The Extraordinary 500-Million-Year History of Cephalopods and her latest book, The Lives of Octopuses and Their Relatives: A Natural History of Cephalopods. Website: https://www.dannastaaf.com/p/home.html Get full access to Converging Dialogues at convergingdialogues.substack.com/subscribe
Released:
Jan 10, 2024
Format:
Podcast episode
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