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Cuckoo Cookbook

Cuckoo Cookbook

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♥️👑🐣🕊🥸🪶🤨🧬🥚Curious about the origin of the term “cuck”? Listen to learn about the bird and the bees who make a living through trickery. The MASTER bait-and-switchers, if you will. And, even more titillating, learn HOW they evolved to do it!

Link to article: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2121752119

Authors: Claire N. Spottiswoode, Wenfei Tong, Gabriel A. Jamie, Katherine F. Stryjewski, Jeffrey M. DaCosta, Evan R. Kuras, Ailsa Green, Silky Hamama, Ian G. Taylor, Collins Moya, and Michael D. Sorenson

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If you’re new here, HI! 🤗We’re SciPod, a podcast that takes the headache out of peer reviewed scientific literature! Take a stroll with us from the fun fact corner, to the jargon corner, to the break down of a recently published scientific article. Prepare for tangents, jokes, rabbit holes, laughs, and friends just havin’ a good time talking about science stuff! Oh and “we” are Madison and Jared, your biology nerds, your science communicators, your buds, your cohosts, your humble servants…sooo…. thanks for listening, folks! 🤗

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