Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

Two Quick Links for Thursday Afternoon

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Fig/wasp codependent evolution is fascinating. "There are more than seven hundred species of fig, and each one has its own species of wasp. When you eat a dried fig, you're probably chewing wasp mummies, too." [newyorker.com]

The presidents of the National Academy of Sciences and the National Academy of Medicine have released a joint statement that they are "alarmed by political interference in science amid [the] pandemic". [nationalacademies.org]

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